ONE PIECE DAY '26: How to Watch the August 22–23 Livestream, Free on YouTube, X, and LINE

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ONE PIECE's biggest annual fan event returns for two days this week — and unlike a lot of large Japanese fan events, you don't need to be anywhere near Chiba to watch it.

What Is ONE PIECE DAY '26?

ONE PIECE DAY '26 is the franchise's official annual celebration, held August 22–23, 2026 at Makuhari Messe's International Exhibition Halls 4–6 in Chiba, just outside Tokyo. August 22 is billed as the "Premiere Eve Festival" (プレミア前夜祭), with a stage program from 6:15 PM to 7:45 PM JST, preceded by merchandise (1:00–3:00 PM) and exhibit areas (3:00–6:00 PM). August 23 is the main event, with the venue open 9:00 AM to 6:30 PM JST.

How to Watch (No Ticket Needed)

The stage program from both days streams live and free, worldwide, on the official ONE PIECE YouTube channel — and, new this year, simultaneously on X and LINE. You don't need an event ticket, a Japan-based account, or a paid streaming subscription to watch; it's a genuinely open, global broadcast.

The World Top 100 Reveal

The event's centerpiece is the final results of the second Global ONE PIECE Character Popularity Poll, "WORLD TOP 100" — a worldwide fan vote, not a Japan-only one. Ranks 100 through 31 are revealed during the August 22 stage; the top 30, including first place, are saved for August 23. The event also includes a talk stage with the voice cast celebrating the ongoing Elbaph arc and a new ONE PIECE Card Game announcement.

What To Know

This is the one ONE PIECE event of the year built specifically so no fan is shut out by geography — the full stage program streams free on three platforms simultaneously, and it's timed around the exact moment the franchise's own fans decide who its most popular characters are, via a genuinely global vote rather than a Japan-only poll.

Splitting a single reveal across two consecutive days — lower rankings on the "eve" night, the actual Top 30 held for the main day — is a deliberate Japanese event-pacing technique used across large anime/manga franchise days, building anticipation night-over-night rather than dumping everything at once; it's the same rhythm behind why many Japanese awards shows and countdowns save their biggest reveal for a dedicated final segment rather than a flat list.

What Fans Are Saying

• "Free worldwide stream on three platforms is honestly more than I expected."
• "Splitting the Top 100 reveal across two days is going to be brutal for anticipation."
• "No ticket needed to watch is huge for international fans."

Original Japanese

• 「3つのプラットフォームで無料配信は本当にありがたい」
• 「Top100発表を2日に分けるの、じわじわ来る演出」
• 「配信にチケット不要なのは海外ファンに嬉しい」

Easy Japanese

「ONE PIECE DAY'26」は8月22日と23日に開催されるイベントです。YouTubeなどで無料で見ることができます。