BODY: Straw Hat fans, clear your calendars for the back half of the decade. At the "One Piece Day'26" event held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, organizers dropped a bombshell on Sunday: Eiichiro Oda's beloved pirate saga is getting not one but two brand-new anime feature films.
The first, titled One Piece Film God Valley, is slated to hit Japanese theaters in Summer 2027. The second, One Piece Film Baad, is scheduled for a 2029 release. The franchise's official website marked the announcement with a special teaser promo and the freshly minted logos for both projects.
The title of the first film is the real conversation-starter. "God Valley" refers to one of the most consequential episodes in One Piece lore — the fateful island where the Rocks Pirates clashed with Gol D. Roger and the Marines decades before the main story. It's a chapter Oda has long teased and only recently expanded upon in the manga, making it prime cinematic material.
Little concrete detail has surfaced about One Piece Film Baad beyond its title and 2029 window, leaving fans plenty of runway to speculate. Both films arrive as the anime's "Egghead" arc and the sprawling Netflix live-action adaptation keep the property firmly in the global spotlight.
The insider take
From Tokyo, the timing reads as classic Toei and Shueisha strategy: stagger tentpole films to anchor the franchise through the late 2020s while the manga barrels toward its climax. One Piece Day has become the franchise's answer to a Comic-Con keynote, and dropping two films at once signals confidence that theatrical One Piece — after the record-shattering Film Red — remains a reliable box-office engine. The "God Valley" choice is especially shrewd: it lets the studio dramatize backstory that's mission-critical to the endgame without spoiling the manga's finish line, keeping both longtime readers and newcomers invested.
Originally reported by News - MyAnimeList (English).