Idk from the tone of voice, but the elegant movements of hand everytime Imu is shown make me believe that its a woman! 👩 And I will stay firm on that belief until proven otherwise. :D

no, they ruined it from the trailer….the dialogues from the first episode, the forced comedy, over-the-top snarky comments by some characters to make it funny……nu uh

I was not sold, i didn’t watch it.

The remake is for the new fans. They want to rake in more fans. The prime complaint for most people is “the animation style is too old”.

one piece went on a journey of changing animation styles throughout the year. I’d say 90% of the people have a nostalgia factor when they say “the animation style is nice, i still like it”. Unfortunately not true for many people.

The other reason is the pacing of the anime. The anime consists of long recaps every episode plus the fight scenes are stretched out because they feared that if the anime caught up with the manga then the studio will have to put it on hold or add more fillers, which they did, on my one piece watching session there were randomly sooo many filler/recap episodes especially in Deessrosa 💀 I was tired of hearing bartholomeo’s voice inserting recap episodes during important scenes……….so yeah the new anime will fix this issue because they have no issue like “catching up with the manga”

and probably more people will be able to experience the anime from the beginning with one of the best studios animating it as wit studio has assembled some of the best people to work on the anime. It’ll turn out great. Although I do agree that the remake trend should not be appreciated.