One Piece is Getting a Woman-Focused Spinoff Anime
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Over the weekend, One Piece celebrated its anniversary in a big celebratory stream called One Piece Day 25 — and it brought with it a host of new announcements.
Alongside the first trailer for season 2 of the live-action Netflix One Piece series – and the announcement of a third season – were a huge amount of smaller announcements. These ranged from merchandising and magazine announcements to the reveal of a new One Piece opening theme for the anime.
Key artwork for One Piece Heroines, showing stylised portraits of two of the women featured in the series.
Key artwork for One Piece Heroines, showing stylised portraits of two of the women featured in the series.
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But it also brought the announcement of a whole new sub-series, adapting one of the more unique aspects of the One Piece manga. During the presentation, it was announced that One Piece Heroines would be adapted into an anime series, with little more information than that revealed during the presentation beyond that every episode will "depict the charm of heroines" often not displayed in the main series.
One Piece Heroines was a subseries of the One Piece manga that was initially released through the One Piece Magazine, a somewhat irregularly published "mook" magazine that features behind the scenes and additional information about the series. The magazine also features smaller chapters of stories, with One Piece Heroines being one of them.
The Heroines subseries consists of eight chapters, each focused on a different woman in the One Piece universe. This includes women from the main cast of the Straw Hat Crew, like Nami and Robin, but also additional characters like Vivi, Boa Hancock, and Uta, the latter of whom was the leading antagonist in One Piece Film: Red.
It's not currently known when One Piece Heroines will air, nor is known how many episodes it will be — although fans are expecting that it will last for eight episodes, one for each chapter in the series. Episodes are expected to be somewhat similar in scope to last year's One Piece: Fan Letter, which similarly drew from expanded manga released via One Piece Magazine.
It's also not known if Heroines will be considered canon to the current anime series. The manga was arguably canon, taking place primarily during the series' time skip, so it's likely that many fans will consider these new episodes canon, too.
One Piece Heroines will likely be available on Crunchyroll and Netflix in the US when it airs.
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