Netflix Unveils First Seems to be at ‘One Piece’ Anime, ‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Season 2 at Annecy Showcase

Netflix used its anime showcase on the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Tuesday to unveil new footage, art work and undertaking bulletins, together with a primary take a look at season two of Blue Eye Samurai, new materials from its upcoming The One Piece anime, a trailer for function movie The Ribbon Hero and the official announcement of recent anime collection Idiot Night time.

Netflix introduced a brand new picture from season of Blue Eye Samurai, providing the primary glimpse on the Emmy-winning animated drama’s subsequent chapter. The brand new season follows Mizu, the titular sword fighter, on her journey to London whereas characters Akemi, Taigen and Ringo pursue separate paths in Japan underneath a brand new shogun. Netflix has not but dated season two’s launch.

The streamer revealed new episodic art work from episode one among The One Piece, WIT Studio’s remake of Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga collection. The anime is being billed as a “fresh take” on the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Straw Hats, and separate from each Toei Animation‘s original, long-running One Piece (now it its 25th year) and Netflix’s one One Piece live-action series. Masashi Koizuka is directing the undertaking, which is ready to premiere on Netflix in February. A teaser trailer of the present will drop on Wednesday.

Extra information got here with the affirmation that Netflix is adapting Kasumi Yasuda’s manga Idiot Night time as a collection, with Atsushi Yukawa directing and animation studios Dawn and Shaft producing. The collection is ready in a future the place humanity depends on a expertise referred to as “Transfloration,” reworking dying people into vegetation to fight an oxygen scarcity. The present is ready to debut later this 12 months. Netflix launched a teaser trailer, art work and first-look photos.

The streamer unveiled a brand new trailer for The Ribbon Hero, director Yuki Igarashi’s function debut. Impressed by Osamu Tezuka’s basic manga Princess Knight, the animated movie is ready for launch on Aug. 8.

Netflix shared new photos from Sparks of Tomorrow, the upcoming Kyoto Animation collection based mostly on the Hiroshi Yuki novel. Set in an alternate early-Twentieth-century Kyoto formed by steam-powered expertise, the collection follows two younger individuals pursuing a imaginative and prescient of an electrified future. The streamer screened an interview with collection director Minoru Ota forward of the present’s July 5 debut.

The showcase included a brand new picture from Bass X Machina, the steampunk western collection from govt producers Brian Tyree Henry and LeSean Thomas. Produced by Studio Mir, the collection is ready in a frontier populated by outlaws, machines and supernatural threats. It premieres on Nov. 3.

The Annecy presentation kinds a part of Netflix’s broader push in anime, which the corporate mentioned generated greater than 1.5 billion views globally in 2025.