IShowSpeed Anime in the Works With One Piece Showrunner as Its Writer

Streamer IShowSpeed (real sanction Darren Jason Watkins Jr.) is collaborating with live-action One Piece co-showrunner Matt Owens connected a caller anime series.

Variety reports the task is successful the works astatine Big Shot Pictures, the animation institution founded by erstwhile Paramount co-CEO Brian Robbins earlier this year. Details astir the project’s story, which is said to diagnostic an animated mentation of IShowSpeed, person yet to beryllium revealed.

Darren Jason Watkins Jr. / IShowSpeed. Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images.

“I’ve ever loved anime, truthful being capable to make thing similar this is simply a imagination travel existent for me,” IShowSpeed told Variety successful a statement. “The squad down this task is incredibly talented, and I can’t hold for my fans astir the satellite to spot what we’re gathering together.”

Owens, who aided arsenic co-showrunner connected the One Piece adaptation for 2 seasons earlier stepping distant “to instrumentality a break” past year, is penning the IShowSpeed series. He’s besides connected committee arsenic a producer, arsenic is Robbins and Spring Breakers manager Harmony Korine.

Although IShowSpeed has been publishing contented online since the precocious 2010s, his meteoric emergence didn’t genuinely statesman until astir 2022. His gaming and IRL (in existent life) YouTube streams helped propel him to go 1 of the astir recognizable faces successful the streaming satellite today, but his enactment with Big Shot marks his archetypal heavy dive into a communicative project.

Despite being a newcomer to the space, longtime fans of his contented whitethorn not beryllium excessively amazed to spot IShowSpeed taking the plunge into the satellite of anime. His emotion for anime – particularly One Piece – is good known by fans and onlookers alike, with overmuch of his contented tying into his favourite animated projects.

“Speed is simply a one-of-a-kind originative unit whose quality to link with audiences transcends borders and platforms,” Robbins said. “As a performer, he’s built a genuinely planetary fanbase, and we’re excited to assistance bring his dependable and imaginativeness to beingness successful a wholly caller mode done this series.”

The IShowSpeed anime bid presently has nary merchandise date. While we hold to larn more, you tin work our 9/10 One Piece play 2 review. You tin besides spot what the streamer had to accidental astir the AI deepfakes featuring his likeness that began to circulate precocious past year.

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