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Ellegarden Performs New Opening Song for One Piece Anime's Egghead Arc (Updated)

The staff for the One Piece franchise announced on Monday that the rock band Ellegarden is performing the anime's new opening song, "Carmine." The band's guitarist and vocalist, Takeshi Hosomi, is a longtime One Piece fan, and while the band's music has been used in anime before, this is the first song that the band created specifically as an anime theme song. The series is currently in the Egghead arc, and the new opening theme song will debut on August 10.

Update on August 10: The staff for One Piece had also announced on July 22 that Chameleon Lime Whoopiepie will perform the new ending theme song "Punks" for the Egghead Arc. The new ending theme will premiere in the episode that airs on August 10.

In mid-October, the franchise announced that the current Egghead arc of the anime would pause to "recharge," and then the arc would continue in April 2025. Part 2 of the Egghead arc premiered with its first episode (1,123rd overall episode) on Fuji TV on April 5 and aired alongside a recap episode of Part 1 of the Egghead arc. The second episode (1,124th overall episode) aired on April 6 with its new timeslot at 11:15 p.m. JST (10:15 a.m. EDT).

Crunchyroll streamed the first two episodes of Part 2 of the Egghead arc during the weekend of April 5-6 in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Latin America.

The Egghead arc in the anime debuted in January 2024.

The ongoing anime adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga premiered in 1999.

Sources: Comic Natalie, OnePiece.com's X/Twitter account