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One Piece grossed $38.9 million in 2022: Toei Animation.
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The animated series has over a thousand episodes.
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Each episode has a cost of more than 1 million pesos.
‘One Piece’ has been placed as one of the favorite animes in this 2023, according to the 2023 Anime Awards. This Japanese series was created in 1992 by Eiichiro Oda and began airing in that country in 1999 and has remained on the air to date with more than a thousand episodes.
The story revolves around Monkey D. Luffy, a young man who set out to become the “King of the Pirates” with the power of a devil fruit that allows him to stretch like a rubber band and in the company of a charismatic crew. The chapters can be seen on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
During the last weeks the series opened rumors about how close they are to reaching the end of the Wano Country Arcand probably these breaks will become more frequent, this to keep fans intrigued.
These days the fandom could see a Unforgettable fight between Sanji and Queen, with an outstanding animation and very well directed. Now comes the turn of the fight between Zoroone of the most beloved straw hat pirates, and King, one of the most powerful soldiers in Kaido’s crew. However, this fight will have to wait, as Toei Animation (One Piece production house) announced a break between chapters. Next week there will be a compilation episode of everything that has happened so far in Wano.
The next canon chapter of the series is coming to Crunchyroll next May 21, 2023.
According to Statista, the anime industry it has more and more weight outside the Japanese borders, especially thanks to television series and all the products linked to them. As seen in this statistic, the Japanese animation industry genderonly in 2020, about income of just over 1.2 trillion yen thanks to the commercialization of its products abroad.
‘One Piece’ in numbers
He production cost of an episode of One Piece is 10 billion yen, that is, 1 million 313 thousand 506 pesos.
It is the 10th longest anime ever.; Pokemon is among the first places.
Its production was suspended for 14 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, from April 17, 2020 to June 2021.
The production house published its fiscal report for 2022 and announced that One Piece and Dragon Ball are the content that generates the most profit. The first grossed nearly 5 billion yen (about $38.9 million)the second generated more than 4 billion yen (31.1 million dollars).
According to Comic Book, the franchise has managed to gross over $20 billion since its debut.
Netflix to Produce Live Action ‘One Piece’
The leading content platform in streaming Netflix announced some time ago that it was working on a live action In conjunction with its creator Eiichiro Oda, the goal is for it to come out by 2023, but the exact date has not yet been confirmed.
What is known so far is that will have eight chapters and is in the final stretch waiting for Eiichiro to give the go-ahead.
“Considering that I don’t have my life bought, I think this may well be the last chance to bring ‘One Piece’ to the entire world. And if we’re going to do it, I want to take advantage of while I’m still active to oversee the project,” Oda said.
