It was announced on December 22nd that Subaru Kimura will be the voice actor for Straw Hat Crew member Franky in the anime "One Piece," based on Eiichiro Oda's popular manga, from April 2025. Eiichiro Oda , who has played Kazuki Yao since his debut in 2005, will be graduating and Kimura will take over. The announcement was made at the "Jump Festa 2025" event held at Makuhari Messe (Mihama-ku, Chiba City) on the same day.
It was also announced that "ONE PIECE" will be broadcast nationwide on Fuji TV affiliates every Sunday at 11:15 pm starting April 6, 2025. The series has been broadcast on the station every Sunday at 9:30 am since October 2006, but it was announced that the broadcast time slot would be changed. A "recharging period" will run from October 20 to March 30, 2025, during which the production team will begin preparations to further improve the quality of the anime, and it will be broadcast in a new regular slot starting April 6, 2025. During the recharging period, "SPECIAL EDITED VERSION "ONE PIECE" Fish-Man Island Arc" is currently being broadcast.
"ONE PIECE" is a manga that depicts the adventures of Luffy, a young man with a straw hat whose limbs can stretch like rubber, as he and his companions journey across the open seas in an attempt to become the King of Pirates. The series began serialization in 1997 in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha). The total number of copies of the comics published in Japan is over 410 million, and the total number of copies published worldwide is over 510 million.
Starting in April 2025, Fuji TV will be broadcasting a completely new original anime series, "TO BE HERO X," produced by Aniplex and China's largest video site, "bilibili," every Sunday at 9:30 a.m., following "ONE PIECE." The 9:30 a.m. Sunday time slot will be a time slot where Fuji TV and Aniplex will team up to produce new anime works, with "TO BE HERO X" being the first to be broadcast.
