One Piece Is Teaming With Steve Aoki on New 'Pirate Anthem'
One Piece: Red has already become the biggest movie in the Shonen franchise to hit Japanese theaters, with the draw of Red-Haired Shanks' return, and the introduction of his daughter Uta, helping to draw theater-goers in. This weekend, anime fans in North America will have the opportunity to see Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates on the silver screen once again and it seems that a new track by mega-fan Steve Aoki will arrive just as the fifteenth film hits the West.
The new track will hit the web on November 4th, with Aoki sharing this about the latest collaboration: "I'm so excited to be a part of the One Piece world and continue our collaborative partnership together. They are champions of the anime and manga world, and I hope fans can feel my excitement in this remix."
Aoki The Straw Hat
We here at Comicbook.com had the opportunity to chat with Steve Aoki earlier this year at Anime Expo 2022, with the artist revealing what he likes most about Eiichiro Oda's Shonen franchise:
"I'd say obviously there's a lot of great through lines and storylines that stick out to a lot of people. But the thing that kind of connects to me personally is like the fact that I tour with the crew. I've always got my own Straw Hat Pirates. I don't want to say I'm like Luffy, because he's like the man, but it's similar. We roll around, we do adventures, and we kind of like cruise around and have fun. The Straw Hat Pirates and Luffy, the relationship they have is, it's really cool. It's really, all these years later, over 20 years later, here we are doing something similar in my own way. You know what I mean? And I love that. I think I always go back to that and I think that there's like this empathetic relationship there and how they all just kind of like roll together. I love that."
The One Piece: Red soundtrack will arrive tomorrow, November 4th, and will include forty-seven songs from the movie, on top of Aoki's new remix.
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Via Press Release