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One Piece Film Red Gets 2nd Trailer, World Premiere for One Piece Day
posted on by Alex Mateo
"One Piece Day," a 2-day event that commemorates the anniversary of the debut of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga, unveiled the second trailer for the One Piece Film Red anime film with English subtitles on Friday.
As part of One Piece Day, the movie had its world premiere screening at Nippon Budokan on Friday. Voice actors and the director Gorō Taniguchi were in attendance, and the film's character Uta held her first live concert.
The film will open in Japan on August 6. The film will have IMAX screenings in 27 theaters in Japan that will open alongside regular screenings. The film will also have MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Atmos screenings on opening day. Crunchyroll will theatrically screen the upcoming One Piece Film Red anime film in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand this fall. The screenings will be available in both Japanese audio with English subtitles, and an English dub.
The film will center on a new character named Uta, Shanks' daughter. Kaori Nazuka will be the speaking voice of Uta, while Ado will be the character's singing voice. Ado will also perform the film's theme song "Shinjidai" ("New Genesis").
Kenjirō Tsuda will voice the character Gordon in the film.
Gorō Taniguchi (Code Geass, One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzak! special) is directing One Piece Film Red. Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Gold, One Piece: Heart of Gold, GANTZ:O, live-action Black Butler) is writing the screenplay, and One Piece manga creator Eiichiro Oda himself is serving as executive producer.
Oda also designed the "battle wear" characters for the film, which have a theme of "rock x pirates" and feature leather and studs for a Middle Ages armor vibe.
One Piece Stampede, the 14th and most recent film in the franchise, opened in Japan in August 2019, and earned more than 10 billion yen (about US$93 million) at the box office worldwide. Funimation premiered the film in cinemas in the the United States and Canada in October 2019. The film celebrated the anime's 20th anniversary.
Since 2017, the Japan Anniversary Association has acknowledged July 22 as "One Piece Day," commemorating the anniversary of the manga's debut (although the manga actually launched on July 19, 1997, it was advertised as launching on July 22).
Source: One Piece franchise's YouTube channel, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web (link 2)
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