[Global Times special correspondent Luc] Since it was serialized in the Weekly Youth JUMP in 1997, the straw hat Luffy and various adventure stories in the Japanese cartoon One Piece have attracted a large number of readers and audiences all over the world. According to the official Twitter of One Piece on the 16th, the latest theatrical version of this series, The Sea King: The Red-haired Geji, broke the highest box office record of this series in one fell swoop 10 days after it was released in Japan. At present, the domestic box office in Japan has exceeded 7 billion yen (about 350 million yuan), and the number of people watching movies has exceeded 5 million. At the same time, at the ongoing Beijing International Film Festival, this theatrical version, which is almost synchronized with Japan, is also hard to get a ticket, and the ticket price has even been fired to 30,000 yuan.
Stills of Nautical King: The Red-haired Geji
As the 15th theatrical version of the series, Voyager: The Red-haired Geji was officially released in Japan on August 6th, and it made a box office success of 2.25 billion yen in the first weekend, and made persistent efforts in the next weekend, with the box office successfully exceeding 7 billion, which is second only to the 2020 Blade of the Ghost: Infinite Train. "Red-haired Geji" revolves around the new key figure Uta, whose singing from another dimension can make the whole world crazy. As the plot unfolds, Luffy discovers that Wuta was originally the daughter of her benefactor-Janks with red hair, but the relationship between father and daughter is quite subtle … The biggest attraction of the film is that Wuta can control the super power of the "conscious world", and the final duel is also opened in two parallel worlds. Different from the previous theatrical editions, the cartoonist Eiichiro Oda himself is the producer of "The Red-haired Geji" for the first time, which is a reassurance for the "pirates fans" all over the world.
As early as 2014, "One Piece" was recognized by Guinness World Records as "the comic book with the largest cumulative circulation created by a single author", and now its cumulative circulation has exceeded 500 million copies, and it has sold well in more than 60 countries and regions around the world. This year’s Beijing International Film Festival has prepared the special unit "One Piece: The Sailor King: The First Touch", including three theatrical works: The Battle of Alabastan, The Queen of the Desert and the Pirates, The Mystery of Qiao Ba’s Life: Miraculous Cherry Blossoms in Winter, and The Red-haired Geji, which were "empty" when invoicing last weekend, and even had a platform to fry the package to a sky-high price of 270,000 yuan. Previously, two theatrical versions of Crazy Action (2019) and Huang Jincheng (2016) were released in China, which earned 200 million yuan and 100 million yuan respectively.
In addition to the China market, One Piece is not well-known in Europe and America. The streaming media giant Netflix officially started the production of the live-action version of One Piece at the beginning of this year, and the young actors from different parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America formed the "Straw Hat Pirates". Judging from the stills currently exposed, the "Merry" and the town have a high degree of restoration. However, although Eiichiro Oda personally acted as a live-action producer and participated in casting, the vast number of "pirates fans" are still worried about the level of this drama series-after all, there are more than 1,000 original works, but there are only 10 episodes in the drama series, so whether the people and special effects can meet the imagination in animation will become the key.