On Sunday Dec. 20, the doors opened at Tokyo’s Makuhari Messe for the second day of Jump Festa 2016. One of the final events of the day included the annual One Piece Super Stage Event, where new information related to One Piece Film: Gold and the manga was revealed.
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda said himself two years ago that he would not be appearing in any One Piece Super Stage Events in the future, and he has subsequently ignored his own resolution during a brief surprise guest appearance in last year’s Super Stage Event and again in this year’s One Piece Super Stage Event…sort of. Oda gave several remarks on Film: Gold and the manga in the form of a letter introducing himself as Hashimoto Kanna.
To celebrate the upcoming movie, this year’s Jump Festa One Piece Super Stage Event’s theme was “gold.” This included gold-colored costumes for the voice actors of all the Straw Hat Pirates who attended and new character model drawings of Luffy wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses for the One Piece Film: Gold were revealed