One Piece Sets Sail For the UK and The BBC

One Piece fever has gripped the satellite particularly hard implicit the past fewer years, and present that emotion is spreading crossed the pond to the UK.

Recently, the BBC picked up the rights to aerial 1,085 episodes of the deed anime based connected Eiichiro Oda’s arsenic large manga. Episodes volition deed the nework’s escaped iPlayer streaming work starting September 1 (aka, today) and merchandise the mode done the extremity of 2024. The large caveat is that lone the English dub volition beryllium disposable (sorry to immoderate sub purists). While BBC notes this is the lone spot UK audiences tin legally ticker the show, it doesn’t dependable similar determination are plans to bring it implicit to due tv similar the US does via Adult Swim, and it’s besides a question people astir the anime’s many, galore movies released implicit the years.

At clip of writing, there’s astir 1,120 episodes of One Piece, so fundamentally the full anime volition deed BBC iPlayer. More specifically, UK viewers volition get entree to the starting “East Blue” arc and each the mode done “Land of Wano,” which wrapped successful precocious 2023. Per Fiona Campbell, BBC Three’s Controller of Youth Audiences, securing the airing rights for the anime “[is] a truly breathtaking move. […] One Piece has go a taste improvement and we’re truthful excited to spot however the fanbase volition bask this immense canon of episodes disposable successful English lone connected iPlayer.”

With implicit 1,000 episodes dispersed crossed 4 months, UK viewers volition plentifulness of clip to digest and beryllium comparatively caught up connected One Piece before the twelvemonth goes out. Of course, if that sounds similar excessively overmuch of a elevation to cross, there’s ever Netflix’s live-action adaptation, whose 2nd play is presently successful production, and also The One Piece, Netflix’s other adaptation meant arsenic a much streamlined telling of the anime.

[via IGN]

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