One Piece Announces God Valley and Baad Movies

Two new One Piece movies have been announced, four years after the release ofOne Piece Red (the ninth highest-grossing film in Japan, partly thanks to a 2023 “encore” run). Their titles are One Piece Film God Valley andOne Piece Film Baad, and they will debut in Japanese theaters in summer 2027 and 2029, respectively. 

As the One Piece website notes, July 22, 2027 will mark the 30th anniversary of the manga, while October 20, 2029 is the 30th anniversary of the TV anime.

The One Piece manga by Eiichiro Oda began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997 and has 115 volumes as of July 2026, while the still-ongoing Toei Animation-produced TV anime began airing in 1999 (the first One Piece movie came out in 2000.). VIZ Media describes the manga as such:

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer “Red-Haired” Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure…one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world…

The manga initially inspired a Production I.G-produced OVA that was also released in 1997. Other anime content include the One Piece Fan Letter special and July’s One Piece Heroines special episode, the latter inspired by the “episode : NAMI” story from the ONE PIECE novel HEROINES spin-off.

This year saw the TV anime, which entered the “Elbaph Arc” in April, adapting a 26-episode-a-year release schedule with the episodes divided into two blocks. In terms of other upcoming One Piece content, there’s One Piece: The Battle of Alabasta, the third season of Netflix’s live-action series,LEGO ONE PIECE, and a WIT STUDIO-produced anime remake titled The One Piece.