Anime Expo Announces One Piece’s 1000th Dub Episode Watch Party
Entry for the Event is free.
While One Piece is at its Wano Arc climax in Japan, in the West, the One Piece dub is nearing its 1000th episode.
In celebration of the 1000th dub episode, Anime Expo has announced a huge hosting of the episode.
On July 2, at The Grammy Museum Terrace at 6 p.m., Anime Expo will host the event.
Get ready to celebrate the historic 1000th episode of #ONEPIECE live & in-person!
Catch the World Premiere of the new English dub for EP. 1000 on July 2nd during Anime Expo featuring giveaways, autograph signings, a live drawing, Q&A with animators and more! #TOEIANIMEAX2023 pic.twitter.com/VYPI1SmEyR— Anime Expo (@AnimeExpo) May 31, 2023
This event will also feature giveaways, autograph signings, a live drawing, and a Q&A with the animators, among other things.
Entry to the event will cost nothing for those able to attend.
One Piece is a Japanese anime television series based on a manga by Eiichiro Oda of the same name.
Produced by Toei Animation, the anime premiered on Fuji TV in October 1999.
The anime has over 1,000 episodes, fourteen feature movies, one OVA, and thirteen TV specials.
Oda started the serialisation of the manga in Shueisha’s Shonen manga magazine, Weekly Shonen Jump, in July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 104 tankobon volumes as of November 2022.
As of August 2022, One Piece had over 516.6 million copies in circulation in 61 countries and regions worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series in history and the best-selling comic series printed in a book volume.
Source: Anime Expo Twitter