Summary
- One Piece Day in Dallas on March 8-9, 2025
- Focus on One Piece Card Game with other anime events
- Special guests, tournaments, exhibitions, and live shows
Its no secret that One Piece is one of the biggest franchises in Japanese pop culture, both in Japan and internationally. With fans all around the world, it comes as no surprise that One Piece is starting to have global events beyond just those that are in Japan. This year, for the first time, there is going to be a One Piece Day celebration in America, which will be totally accessible for fans who speak English. This is a huge deal in the anime world; an event outside of Japan, in English, that is dedicated to not all Japanese pop culture in general, but one specific franchise.
One Piece Day will be held in Dallas, Texas next weekend, on March 8th and 9th, 2025. The event will be focused primarily on the One Piece Card Game, but will have other events related to the anime and manga as part of the celebrations as well. These include a concert, live talks from the voice cast, anime screenings, a toy exhibition, and more. For One Piece fans in North America, this is going to be a huge opportunity they have never experienced before.
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The One Piece Card Game in Dallas
What You Need to Know
The official name for the upcoming One Piece event in Dallas, Texas, is ONE PIECE DAY Dallas -Card Game Celebration-. The main focus of the weekend will be the One Piece Card Game, but fans of the anime and manga will definitely have some exciting things to see and do as well. When it comes to the card game, anyone who wants to play in the tournaments at the event needs to pre-register via the official website, which has a detailed explanation of how to sign up. Spots are limited, though, and are first come, first served.
Shun Ogawa, the producer of the English version of the One Piece Card Game, will be a special guest at the event. Additionally, the Information Channel Commentator Gavin will be attending, with the chance to play the game against him. The ONE PIECE DAY Dallas -Card Game Celebration- will host the first tournament of 2025 for the card game in the world, kicking off this year’s tournament season. Even if you are not competing in the big tournament, there are side events for card game players to participate in, where you can earn points to exchange for real prizes at the event.
If you haven’t heard of the One Piece Card Game yet, the official website of the game describes it as,
ONE PIECE CARD GAME is a collectible card game themed on the world of ONE PIECE! In addition to familiar illustrations from the anime and manga, there are many original illustrations drawn by various artists that have never been seen before! Once you’ve collected lots of cards you can make your own special crew (deck) for card battles!
The game has been gaining popularity around the world in the past few years, and has grown big enough that international fans are competing in world competitions like this one.
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Everything Else at the Celebration
Beyond the One Piece Card Game, the One Piece Day celebration event will also host an exhibit hall with events and displays for all fans of the franchise. This will include a main stage, which will have a special concert performed by Hiroshi Kitadani and Maki Otsuki. Kitadani is the original singer of the first One Piece theme song “We Are!”, along with others like “We Go!”, the theme for the Fish-Man Island Arc. Otsuki is the singer of the first ending song from One Piece, “Memories,” and has also performed a cover of “We Go!” recently.
Select episodes of the One Piece anime will also be screened on the main stage, followed by talks with voice actors Brina Palencia (Tony Tony Chopper) on Saturday and Jason Leibrecht (Rob Lucci) on Sunday. Ryuta Koike, the animation producer, along with an unnamed “special guest” will also be in attendance. The exhibition hall will also feature an exhibit of One Piece toys you can walk through, a gallery of illustrations from the card game and a separate gallery for the manga, and a “ONE PIECE MANGA JOURNEY Reading Corner.” Saturday will also host a One Piece-themed drone show, as long as the weather is reasonable.
The exhibit hall will be held in the Dallas Fair Park Centennial Hall, and the tournament hall in the Dallas Fair Park Automobile Building. If you are not able to make it in person, the official website has links to live video streams that will be set up in both the exhibition hall and the tournament hall, so you can tune in from home and still enjoy watching the events as they unfold.
ONE PIECE DAY Dallas -Card Game Celebration- will be held in Dallas, Texas March 8th-9th, 2025. Watch One Piece now on Crunchyroll.
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One Piece
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
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Source: Official Website