One Piece studio teams up with Sonic designer and Invincible star

A new movie from One Piece’s Toei Animation will see a collaboration between Sonic the Hedgehog’s designer and Invincible star JK Simmons.

Sonic designer Naoto Oshima and Toei Animation, the team behind One Piece, Dragon Ball Super, and the award-winning animation film The First Slam Dunk, have teamed up to create a new CGI project called Hypergalactic, a feature-length animated film.

Toei is experiencing a wave of success with film releases, including The First Slam Dunk and One Piece Film: Red which made over $525 million collectively, so they’re attempting to continue surfing this wave with a new original CGI family film including an all-star cast including a particular star from Amazon’s Invincible.

Toei Animation announces Hypergalactic movie

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In reverse anime fashion, the film’s English version is being produced first, followed by international dubbing. The voice cast will include JK Simmons (known for playing Omni-Man in Invincible and J. Jonah Jameson from Spider-Man), as well as Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade and Agnes in Despicable Me) and Comedy Central star Adam Devine as Ohkan.

In a statement, Toei Animation producer Yoshiu Ikezawa said: “With Hypergalactic, the hugely talented Game Designer Oshima has created a multicultural adventure tale of epic scale – combining memorable global characters with a Japanese anime aesthetic and a Western approach to storytelling.”

The story of Hypergalactic takes place on Earth in the not-too-distant future, where a teenage girl and her baby brother seek the help of Ohkan, the forgotten protector of Earth where the trio work together in hopes of finding the pair’s parents, resulting in a massive adventure.