Attack on Titan director Masashi Koizuka directs anime at Wit Studio
Kodoani.com – On the second day of The One Piece Day '24 livestream, information about the production team of The One Piece, the remake of the anime One Piece for Netflix, was revealed on Sunday.
Masashi Koizuka (Attack on Titan, Moonrise) will serve as director at Wit Studio. Hideaki Abe (key animator for Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, episode 5 of Suicide Squad ISEKAI) will serve as assistant director. Kyoji Asano (Attack on Titan, chief animation director for Spy×Family) and Takatoshi Honda (animation director for The First Slam Dunk) will serve as character designers and chief animation directors.
Yasuhiro Kajino (designer and key animator for In/Spectre, concept designer and key animator for RIN-NE season 2) will be in charge of the artboard and creature design. Eri Taguchi (animation director for Vampire in the Garden, character designer for Play It Cool, Guys) will be in charge of prop design.
Taku Kishimoto (Haikyu!!, Ranking of Kings) will serve as the series writer, while Ken Imaizumi (animation director for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations) and Shuhei Fukuda (animation director for My Hero Academia seasons 4 and 6, My Hero Academia: You're Next film) will serve as action animators. Tomonori Kuroda (A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun) will serve as art director, and Ryōma Kawamura (Moonrise) will serve as animation producer.
The One Piece anime remake was first announced at the Jump Festa '24 event last December. It was announced that the anime would adapt the East Blue Saga, but it is possible that it will cover more than the East Blue Saga, but this has not been confirmed. The remake is being made to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the One Piece anime.
