The One Piece Remake Will Cover 50 Chapters in 7 Episodes

Aug 20, 2026

Netflix and WIT Studio are preparing to take One Piece fans back to where the adventure began, but THE ONE PIECE remake will move through Monkey D. Luffy’s earliest adventures at a dramatically different pace.

The upcoming anime will adapt approximately the first 50 chapters of Eiichiro Oda’s manga across just seven episodes, according to Netflix. Those episodes will have a combined runtime of roughly 300 minutes, making them considerably longer on average than a traditional half-hour anime episode.

All seven episodes are scheduled to arrive globally on Netflix in February 2027.

A Much Faster Trip Through East Blue

The THE ONE PIECE remake starts from Chapter 1 and reintroduces audiences to the East Blue Saga.

Season 1 will take viewers from the beginning of Luffy’s journey through his eventual encounter with Sanji, sous chef of the floating restaurant Baratie. Along the way, audiences will be reintroduced to characters including Shanks, Koby, Nami, Zoro and Usopp.

The seven episodes will run for approximately 300 minutes in total. That works out to an average of roughly 43 minutes per episode, although Netflix has not said that every individual episode will have the same runtime.

The approach represents a major restructuring of the early One Piece story rather than simply reproducing the existing television anime.

The Remake Was Reportedly Going to Be Even Shorter

Perhaps the most surprising detail is that WIT Studio’s version was reportedly once planned to be even more condensed.

Director Masashi Koizuka explained that the production expanded from an earlier, shorter plan because there were elements of the original story he did not want the adaptation to lose. The goal isn’t simply to race through the manga, but to determine which moments are essential to its characters and emotional core.

That distinction could prove important.

Compressing dozens of manga chapters inevitably means making choices about what receives screen time. However, with approximately five hours available across the first seven episodes, WIT Studio has considerably more room than the episode count alone might suggest.

WIT Studio Is Rebuilding One Piece From the Beginning

This isn’t a remaster of Toei Animation‘s long-running television series.

THE ONE PIECE is an entirely new adaptation produced by WIT Studio, the animation studio known for projects including Attack on Titan and SPY x FAMILY. Netflix describes the production as a fresh adaptation of Oda’s manga that will use modern technology to reinterpret Luffy’s adventures.

Koizuka has also discussed how the team approached that reinterpretation.

Rather than simply copying existing imagery, the production team considered what Oda might have been thinking while drawing the characters and then developed its own approach to the visuals, colors and environments.

That gives WIT Studio an interesting challenge: preserve what made the beginning of One Piece memorable while creating an anime that can stand apart from a television adaptation that has existed for more than 25 years.

A New Entry Point for One Piece

The remake could also address one of the biggest barriers facing prospective One Piece fans: its enormous size.

Someone discovering the franchise today is confronted with decades of television episodes before catching up with the current story. Even for viewers interested in the series, that can make starting One Piece seem intimidating.

THE ONE PIECE remake offers an alternative.

Seven longer episodes covering approximately 50 chapters would allow someone to experience a substantial portion of Luffy’s earliest adventure in around five hours.

That could make the Netflix series one of the easiest entry points the franchise has ever offered.

It also creates an unusual situation in which three different versions of One Piece can coexist: Oda’s original manga, Toei Animation’s ongoing anime and WIT Studio’s new interpretation.

Can Seven Episodes Capture What Makes One Piece Special?

That’s ultimately the biggest question surrounding the project.

Speed isn’t necessarily the same thing as good pacing.

Some of One Piece’s most memorable moments work precisely because audiences are given time to understand its characters, relationships and increasingly elaborate world. Compress too much and the story risks losing some of that emotional weight.

On the other hand, a carefully planned adaptation without the constraints associated with producing an ongoing weekly television series could create a considerably tighter version of the story.

The approximately 300-minute runtime suggests WIT Studio isn’t trying to squeeze 50 chapters into seven conventional 22-minute episodes. Instead, the studio has effectively been given around five hours to retell this portion of East Blue.

That distinction could make all the difference.

We’ll find out whether WIT Studio can pull it off when THE ONE PIECE begins streaming worldwide on Netflix in February 2027.