One Piece: Stampede Breaks 2019 Japanese Box Office Record

One Piece: Stampede is one of the most anticipated film releases in the franchise thus far, and it's a major celebration of the anime's 20th Anniversary. This has lead to a huge film packed to brim with returns of fan-favorite allies and villians, and fans have been excited to see how it all shakes out for themselves. But the amount of fan anticipation was most likely underestimated as One Piece: Stampede has already broken a major record for the Japanese box office in 2019. As announced by the film's official Twitter account, One Piece: Stampede has broken the record for the largest audience on opening day in 2019 so far. It's already number one with audiences as of its August 9th opening, with over 350,000 fans attending the film on release.

One Piece: Stampede is now out in to theaters in Japan as of August 9th. There is currently no word on its release to other territories as of this writing, unfortunately. But the film has been licensed for a release in Australia. So fans in other territories will find out release details before too long, hopefully. But with the film just premiering in Japan, there's still going to be some waiting.

Fuji TV officially describes the film as such, "The world's greatest exposition of the pirates, by the pirates, for the pirates - the Pirates Festival. Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Crew receive an invitation from its host Buena Festa who is known as the Master of Festivities. They arrive to find a venue packed with glamorous pavilions and many pirates including the ones from the Worst Generation. The place is electric." As teased by the filler arc of the anime tying into the release of the film, One Piece: Stampede will feature the return of characters like Boa Hancock, Sabo, Buggy, Trafalgar Law, Smoker, and many more. There are new characters coming to the film along with all the returning cameos too, and include Tsutomu Isobe as the central villain Douglas Bullet, Yusuke Santamaria as Buena Festa, Rino Sashihara as Ann, Ryota Yamasato as Donald Moderate, and Chinese fashion model and singer Ron Monroe, YouTuber group Fischer's, and Naoto Takenaka in currently unconfirmed roles.

Ready for 2019 One Piece Stampede Movie?

One Piece will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2019, and it's going to make a big splash with a huge 20th Anniversary movie. The series dropped the first trailer and poster for the film today. The poster not only teases a big struggle for the Straw Hats, but reveals the film will be opening August 9 in Japan.

The official website for the One Piece franchise announced on Wednesday that the franchise's new anime film is titled One Piece Stampede. It will open in theaters in Japan on August 9,. Toei will distribute the film. The film celebrates the anime's 20th anniversary, and will be the 14th film in the franchise. The latest anime film in the One Piece franchise, One Piece Film Gold, opened in Japan in July 2016. Funimation screened the film in theaters in the United States with an English dub in January 2017.


The company then released the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in May 2017. A One Piece film opened every year in Japan between 2000-2009. The 30-minute One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase film opened in March 2011, and the One Piece Film Z movie opened in December 2012. Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has since been collected into over 80 volumes, and has been a critical and commercial success worldwide with many of the volumes breaking printing records in Japan. The manga has even set a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book by a single author, and is the best-selling manga series worldwide with over 430 million copies sold. The series still ranked number one in manga sales in 2018, which surprised fans of major new entries.