One Piece fans are all waiting for new details on Film Red, the upcoming movie project of the anime. On January 30, 2022, the official Twitter account for the movie shared its storyboard size with an impressive photo.
One Piece Film Red is directed by Goro Taniguchi, who's most notably known as the director of Code Geass. Meanwhile, the scriptwriter is Tsutomu Kuroiwa, who also worked on One Piece Film Gold. Together with the movie's staff, it looks like Taniguchi and Kuroiwa surpassed themselves, putting an exceptional amount of work into the film.
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One Piece Film Red storyboard size reveal shocks fans
In a new tweet, the One Piece Film Red Twitter account revealed the movie's storyboard is over 850 pages in total.
The tweet uses the anime industry term 絵コンテ, ekonte. As explained by the wonderful Sakugabooru Blog, this term refers to an anime's blueprints. These are simple drawings that function as a visual script, drawn on special sheets with fields for the animation cut number, notes for the staff, and the matching lines of dialoges.
Furthermore, the photo shows the storyboard was clearly separated into A, B, and C parts. Confirming the One Piece Film Red movie will develop its story in three acts.
Depending on the director and staff of an anime, certain storyboards are much more detailed than others. To the point where the storyboard feels like complete illustrations. Certain anime adaptation projects also straight-up use panels from the original manga for the storyboard. For example, that's what Production I.G. did with the anime adaptation of horror manga Uzumaki by Junji Ito.
While we haven't seen the insides of these storyboards, it's undeniable an insane amount of work must be going into the production of One Piece Film Red.
One Piece Film Red release date details so far
One Piece Film Red will be launching in Japanese theaters on August 6, 2022. An international release date was not confirmed yet. Original manga author Eiichiro Oda serves as the movie's general producer and supervisor.