Hiroshi Kitadani has returned to the One Piece anime to perform the show’s new opening theme song “Over the Top.”
The September issue of Shueisha’s V Jump magazine announced on Saturday that the episodes of the One Piece television anime that will air on July 28 and August 4 will tie into the new One Piece Stampede film.
One Piece Stampede will open in Japan on August 9, and is commemorating the TV anime’s 20th anniversary.
Tatsuya Nagamine (One Piece Film Z, Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball Super: Broly) is the new series director, and Midori Matsuda (chief animation director for One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibōken, animation director for One Piece Film Gold) is the new character designer.