By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting

This past weekend at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Avex Pictures Inc. hosted a One Piece event as part of the Bandai Card World Fest 23-24 World Tour. This seems to have been the kick-off for the nine-location world tour that will bring together various Bandai Card Game titles. This tour is the first large-scale card game event to visit nine regions worldwide. At each stop, tournaments are held for select titles, and the Los Angeles event included a tournament to determine the North American One Piece Card Game champion. The event is still ongoing, with World Championship Finals set to happen this March.

During the event, it was announced that Hiroshi Kitadani and Maki Otsuki, the original singers of the One Piece soundtrack, would perform six songs, including the latest opening and ending theme songs, as part of the Bandai Card Games Fest 23-24 World Tour. The performance kicked off with Otsuki singing “Memories,” the original One Piece ending theme song, followed by “Run! Run! Run!” and “Dear Sunrise.” The lineup continued with Kitadani performing “OVER THE TOP,” “UUUUUS!,” and “We Are!“

We learned that the new opening and ending theme songs are set for an official release by Avex Pictures on 10 April 2024, along with other songs from the One Piece anime series’ 25-year history. They’ll be available on Apple Music’s official One Piece Playlist, which is not currently up at the time of writing this (but should be up when the release happens!). In the meantime, you can enjoy most of the songs here: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/one-piece-openings-endings-ost/pl.u-MDAejajTADMzlJB

You can read the official press release here.

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