One Piece Opening 15: "We go!" by Hiroshi Kitadani

redon

New Opening announced, thanks kaze1028 for the pic.

Tittle: We go!
Singer: Hiroshi Kitadani

New Opening begins in Chapter 517, 2nd October.

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More information, thanks to Greg in Raftel Forums.

http://raftelforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=203&p=2450#p2450

@Greg:

You might be interested to know the team who created the song is exactly the same as the team that created We Are! and I'm not just talking about the singer.

Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
Song: Kohei Tanaka
Vocalist: Hiroshi Kitadani

The article dubs them a so-called 'Golden Team'.
Also, although hard to make out, it seems to suggest that the new song will start in October and not as previously suggested on September 25th.

Kitsune Inferno

Oh my, that'll be one to listen for.~

homemadecandle

Awesome! Hope the new opening is good.

sanji499

Eccentric hairstyle to say the least.

Demon Rin

Kitadani Doing the new Op? It's called "We Go!"?

Expected on Kitadani doing it, and definitely VERY awesome sounding! Lookin' forward to it.

Zeifyra

LOL at 'Plofile'

No Maam

@Zeifyra:

LOL at 'Plofile'

Yeah, that's kinda

You'd expect the editors would know this basic stuff

Electrivire

Song title sounds kinda ambitious, like it's "part 2" of We Are. Either way, it's got big shoes to fill if it's gonna become the new "main theme" of One Piece. Looking forward to it.

kaizokuo12

I hope this will be a rocking song!!

DerangedBones

The fake strawhats look so hilarious i can't wait! wonder if they're gonna show them in the OP
as for the title "We Go"…. I feel like there's going to be a line in the song that goes "here We Are, here We Go!"

Cyborg009

Oh HO! this scan just made my morning.

LUFFY1fan

Cool, is there any news by the We Are remix for the episode before? I am honestly looking forward to that more.. ^_^;

Crossword

Part 2's first opening song is by Kitadani? That's the best possible move Toei could have made, awesome!

Really looking forward to it.

Dreamer

awesome!!!!!!!!!!
i would prefer if they didnt show the fake straw hats in the opening though

Rogues' Gallery

LOL @ Caribou's head being cut-off in the scan.

Poor caribou, he can't ever catch a break.

Volpe

Time machines, where are you?

redon

More information, thanks to Greg in Raftel Forums.

http://raftelforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=203&p=2450#p2450

@Greg:

You might be interested to know the team who created the song is exactly the same as the team that created We Are! and I'm not just talking about the singer.

Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
Song: Kohei Tanaka
Vocalist: Hiroshi Kitadani

The article dubs them a so-called 'Golden Team'.
Also, although hard to make out, it seems to suggest that the new song will start in October and not as previously suggested on September 25th.

MasterKingJC

Kitadani? KITADANI??

I'm extremely pumped for this! I'm guessing it's going to be a variation of "We Are".

superneku

We Go! is officially the Zeo theme to One Piece :3

dropper

Excellent! I cannot wait!!

I wonder if the episode preview BGM will change from the 'We Are' to the 'We Go' Melody?

Kizaru sama

I kinda hoped it would have been another WE ARE but another new song by the same pepole who did the origional we are is even better.
I'm quite used to fight together by now that it has been growing on me first i was like what is this ? but i really like it now, but finaly time for a new one i'd say.

Electrivire

However the new song goes, I hope they go all out and go crazy with the instruments, like the random music used here in this game trailer:

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Also, I know they already redid it in opening 8 (Jungle P,) but I really want another "Luffy runs off a cliff and grabs the ship" beginning. And, we may be getting this, but I wanna actually hear "One Piece!" at the start like in We Are. The other openings, while good, never felt like actual themesongs because of this in my opinion. One more thing, I kinda want Toei to finally return to having "speeches" at the beginning of opening themes like the first 3 openings. I mean, at 2 minutes and 30 seconds, a short epic speech is not too much to ask for its it?

AlnaJames

I'd rather they went back to having endings! I can never understand why did they cut them off…
They aren't making any character image songs nowadays either, are they trying to boycott the musical side of the project?

Demonicpoodle

@Al!naJames:

I'd rather they went back to having endings! I can never understand why did they cut them off…
They aren't making any character image songs nowadays either, are they trying to boycott the musical side of the project?

Me too sigh. Does anybody know if they make announcements for ending songs in anime, just like opening songs? Cuz ending songs usually change more frequently so I'd think it would be a hassle.

I am so super freaking hyped for this though, holy crap. I have never looked so forward to an opening song before lol.

black-leg jex

i never understood why either. This is the only show i've seen without an ending theme

Conekiller

This news makes me so happy! I was so disappointed with the re-done We Are we got toward the end of Thriller Bark, there's no way this could be as big a let down as that.

Samwize78

@Samwize78:

If we get a new series for Part 2 of One Piece, do you guys think that "We Are" will be the first opening for the series, or do you think we will have just a regular old song by someone for an opening? Or perhaps do you think that Hiroshi Kitadani will come back and make up a new song as Opening 1?

Fuckin' called it.

Tabasco Boshi

@Electrivire:

However the new song goes, I hope they go all out and go crazy with the instruments, like the random music used here in this game trailer:

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That one sounds great. Could this be the instrumental version of the new opening? I don't think so, but who knows.

LuffyWinner

Alright! Can't wait for this! Gonna listen to this about 10 times before watching the episode itself.

Electrivire

@Tabasco:

Could this be the instrumental version of the new opening? I don't think so, but who knows.

I don't know, but I imagine a "ONE PIECE!" could easily be sung at around 0:12 right at the "high point" and right before that break in the music. Kinda like how most anime have that "break" when the logo is shown.

LUFFY1fan

@Electrivire:

However the new song goes, I hope they go all out and go crazy with the instruments, like the random music used here in this game trailer:

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Also, I know they already redid it in opening 8 (Jungle P,) but I really want another "Luffy runs off a cliff and grabs the ship" beginning. And, we may be getting this, but I wanna actually hear "One Piece!" at the start like in We Are. The other openings, while good, never felt like actual themesongs because of this in my opinion. One more thing, I kinda want Toei to finally return to having "speeches" at the beginning of opening themes like the first 3 openings. I mean, at 2 minutes and 30 seconds, a short epic speech is not too much to ask for its it?

Please god, let that music be bgm to the opening theme. That music sounds amazing.

Md-Martin

I'm just really hoping that we get rid of the narrations in the beginning. We'll obvious get rid of the one we have now, but I don't want it to be replaced with another one, wasting more time.

MasterKingJC

@Md-Martin:

I'm just really hoping that we get rid of the narrations in the beginning. We'll obvious get rid of the one we have now, but I don't want it to be replaced with another one, wasting more time.

This.
A narration ala Opening 1 would be great, but the ones after the openings, that are just repeating things we already know, are annoying.
They're just so pointless.

dropper

I was pretty sure that the Gigant Battle 2 video could be the instrumental for the new opening a while ago…

I know that nothing is confirmed, but if you listen closely to the two sounds of the trumpet at the end, they could be sung together with the words 'We Go!'.

Anyway who the hell knows, it just seems over the top to have that kind of music for the Gigant Battle 2 trailer, however it does kick ass!

fogdark

Don't know if this is true, but this spanish site, mentions that in the small interview Shonen Jump did to kitadani, he describes that "We Go" can be considered as a sort of response song to "We Are".
If this is true, I'll be interesting to compare the lyrics of both songs, and see how they relate to each other…..

Samwize78

I want them to animate the color pages first, and then play the new opening. And have the 598 colorspread animated somewhere in the opening itself. That would be epic.

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@fogdark:

Don't know if this is true, but this spanish site, mentions that in the small interview Shonen Jump did to kitadani, he describes that "We Go" can be considered as a sort of response song to "We Are".
If this is true, I'll be interesting to compare the lyrics of both songs, and see how they relate to each other…..

He would most likely say something like "We Go, We Go, something something something WE GO!!" at the end like in "We Are!", that's just my guess.

Badass SnoCone

@MasterKingJC:

This.
A narration ala Opening 1 would be great, but the ones after the openings, that are just repeating things we already know, are annoying.
They're just so pointless.

They have a point. To waste time. One chapter per episode can only be stretched so much.

Electrivire

I was thinking something along the lines of:

"We won't back down- we'll rise today! We don't laze around- or snooze away! We Go!!" (or "One Piece!!" if it's at the start I guess) going off the first parts of the trailer music

I love baseless speculation. This is fun. :ninja:

Aldrato

this made my day, Hiroshi Kitadani is BOSS.

MasterKingJC

@Badass:

They have a point. To waste time. One chapter per episode can only be stretched so much.

There are better ways to waste time.
For example, well-paced implied filler, stretching out scenes in a way that isn't annoying, endings…

JulieYBM

The openings are as long as the combined length of an opening (ninety seconds) and ending (sixty seconds). They could always triple the length of the recaps, but I'd much rather see some storylines Oda wouldn't think up. Those three episodes after Thriller Bark were great, as was G8.

Crossword

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Tabasco Boshi

The more I listen to that Gigant Battle song, the more I think it's the instrumental version of the new opening. Maybe it's ridiculous, but listen to the original We are!

The sound effect we have in the Gigant Battle video in the 0:18, reminds me of the original, I don't know why.

AlnaJames

Yeah, it does sound like an instrumental of a proper song! I wouldn't mind if that was true~

Yonkou255

My true hopes for the new opening is that it is ACTUALLY GODDAMN Animated! I hate those constants pannings of the strawhats. I miss the times where the openings actually hyped you for the show. Ej:We Are, Believe, Hikari E,Kokoro No Chizu,Brand New World.

Crossword

What? Starting with Share the World the openings have become much more animated than they used to be. The old ones were more pan-and-still-shot-heavy.

Chibi JFZ

@Yonkou255:

I miss the times where the openings actually hyped you for the show.

this kind of hype ?

DerangedBones

@Tabasco:

The more I listen to that Gigant Battle song, the more I think it's the instrumental version of the new opening. Maybe it's ridiculous, but listen to the original We are!
The sound effect we have in the Gigant Battle video in the 0:18, reminds me of the original, I don't know why.

I think you're on to something..! That Instrumental in the Gigant Battle 2 trailer is really amazing, and i don't think they made such an amazing tune for just one 1:14 minute trailer. If this is the tune to the new OP then I would die happy. If it is, then there should be 2 more glorious minutes of that instrumental. If it turns out to be true, you called it!

Yonkou255

@Crossword:

What? Starting with Share the World the openings have become much more animated than they used to be. The old ones were more pan-and-still-shot-heavy.

Yes, that's why I hope the practice will die entirely with "We Go". And yes, there were pans-and-still-shots in the older openings but they were not noticeable until the 2 minute openings started. And even then, it will still drag on for 1 minute too many and use other lesser but still annoying padding techniques.

Electrivire

One thing I liked about opening 1 was the "flipbook" style animation for most of it. And by that I mean that the backgrounds moved just as much as the characters in most shots, giving off a very dynamic look. I hope to see more of that.