One Piece fans knew that The One Piece, the upcoming re-adaptation of the early days of Eiichiro Oda’s beloved pirate adventure, was going to be short. But they didn’t realize how short.
This morning, Netflix announced that The One Piece will begin streaming exclusively on the platform in February 2027—and, in a change from how Netflix has typically handled anime recently, will drop all seven of its episodes at once.
Where it all began: East Blue.
Produced by WIT STUDIO, THE ONE PIECE sets sail in February 2027. All 7 episodes dropping at once, only on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/MJBLYMCvdt
— Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) May 5, 2026
Yes, that’s right: The One Piece will go back and cover the earliest beginnings of the manga with just an initial batch of seven episodes. An official social media account for The One Piece confirmed that the 7 episodes will adapt the first 50 chapters of One Piece, “up to the point where Luffy and the crew meet Sanji,” and will run for a total of around 300 minutes, making each episode around 42 to 43 minutes long.
The East Blue Saga runs for a total of 100 chapters in the manga, and while the Toei anime with its now-infamous episode count covered the East Blue Saga in 60 episodes, Netflix’s own live-action spin on One Piece covered the major beats across the eight episodes of its first season. Those live-action episodes run for around an hour, though, so while The One Piece‘s episode runtime is significantly longer than most typical anime episodes, the remake will likely still wrap up the East Blue Saga in a similar amount of time as the live-action series did, if not a little longer—and of course, in significantly less time than Toei’s anime did.
It’s a big change for One Piece fans used to the endurance run that is both the manga and the previous anime at this point (the latter will continue to run alongside The One Piece, but even that is slowing down its output of episodes). But the whole point of The One Piece in the first place is to take a radically different approach to adapting the source material after decades of other adaptations, so we’ll have to wait until next February to see how successful it is at really trimming it down.
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