The One Piece franchises’ official portal site One Piece.com announced today on September 12 that “Hope,” a newly-recorded song by 39-year-old J-Pop singer Namie Amuro, will be used as the OP theme for the One Piece TV anime from the upcoming one-hour episode “Kanashiki Kettou (Sad Duel) Luffy vs Sanji” to be aired in Japan on October 1.
She also previously provided “Black Make Up” as the theme song for the TV special episode “One Piece -Adventure of Nebrandia-” aired in December 2015. happy if the song helps to enhance the charm of One Piece.”
This is the second time for her to perform an OP song for the One Piece TV anime, following the 14th OP song “Fight Together” (episode 493-516).