One Piece Reveals Visuals For 'Whole Cake Island' Anime Arc

After a brief filler arc, One Piece is getting back to the canon with a new storyline that will pit Monkey D. Luffy against a longtime friend of his. Toei Animation is preparing to sail deep into the "Whole Cake Island" arc as its first episode debuts in a few days. April 9th will usher in the new era of One Piece, and the folks behind the anime have released the first visuals from the saga.

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On the show's website, a slew of character images and a key visual were shared with fans. The individuals images show each of the Vinsmoke siblings, and each resembles Sanji in their own way. You can check out the posters in the following slides for Reiju, Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji. As for the main visual, fans are shown Big Mom and her various pirates in the background whilst Luffy and Sanji are shown front-and-center. The former looks determined as he stands across from an irate Sanji who is preparing to attack his longtime captain.

If you are not familiar with the Whole Cake Island storyline, then you can catch up with it through Eiichiro Oda's manga. The shonen title is still inking the massive story.

In the Whole Cake Island arc, fans watch as Monkey D. Luffy and his trusted crew go to save Sanji from the isolated island. Nami, Chopper, and Brook want to help their friend escape Big Mom and her gang of pirates. Sanji has been coerced into captivity by the gang as the pirate's family arranged a marriage between Sanji and Big Mom's daugther Charlotte Pudding. Along the way, Luffy's crew scouts out help from a few additional fighters who have their own reasons to confront Big Mom's crew, and Luffy hopes he can show Sanji just how two-faced his fiance truly is.

You can check out a description of One Piece from Viz Media below:

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber—at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the One Piece, said to be the greatest treasure in the world…

Eiichiro Oda began his manga career in 1992 at the age of 17, when his one-shot cowboy manga Wanted! won second place in the coveted Tezuka manga awards. Oda went on to work as an assistant to some of the biggest manga artists in the industry, including Nobuhiro Watsuki, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists. His pirate adventure One Piece, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1997, quickly became one of the most popular manga in Japan.

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