One Piece (2023 soundtrack)

Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli were hired to compose the score for the series. After providing music for the first season of the Netflix series The Witcher, the duo wanted the next project to have a musical world building, and when they first heard about the live-action adaptation of the manga series One Piece, they immediately agreed to be onboard for the project. Composition began in late-November and December 2021, where they shot a three-and-half minute video analyzing the pitch and the outline of the concept and the basic sketches of the series' music, where each character had their own distinct instrumentation. Belousova and Ostinelli recorded the score with 110 musicians at the Abbey Road Studios which included 23 orchestral sessions held for 82 hours and over 3,667 takes. The initial music consisted of 180 cues running for seven hours, and the final existing length consisted of 79 themes running for four hours. == Composition ==

The first track from the album "Wealth Fame Power" connects Luffy with Gold Roger's legacy. The song has "ascending motion" as Luffy is at the start of his journey so in Roger's scene, they reversed the theme to be in "descending motion" as Rogers is "about to be executed" – "we are ending one storyline, but we are immediately beginning another storyline". She used a hurdy-gurdy for the theme, an instrument which they experimented on The Witcher and virtuoso flamenco guitar played by guitarist Marcin Patrzalek. Additionally, the themes of the other members of the Straw Hat Pirates were blended into Luffy's theme since Luffy serves as the crew's captain. Nami's theme features a flute and initially plays "in a very kind of fun, determined, quirky manner" but as the character is explored more in depth over the season, the theme reappears in "different shades". == Track listing ==

Mixtape from Baratie is the second soundtrack to the series, that featured musical themes and instrumentals heard at the pirate restaurant Baratie. Performed by the One Piece Big Band ensemble along with jazz soloists, it was released on September 8, 2023. Track listing == Reception ==

Matt Patches of Polygon highlighted that showrunners Matt Owens and Steven Maeda did not give Belousova and Ostinelli "picture-locked episodes" to add underscore to but instead tasked them "with composing a world's worth of sounds that could be in constant conversation depending on which eccentric characters or pirate-y locations were in play at any given moment". Kirsten Carey, for The Mary Sue, viewed the score as "fun" but also "highly repetitive". Carey criticized it for playing "over 90% of a given episode" and suggested one could "make a drinking game out of how many times the main theme plays per episode outside of the title". == See also ==