The official website for the One Piece franchise announced on Monday that One Piece will get a TV anime special on December 19 titled One Piece ~Adventure of Nevlandia~ . The special will be the anime's first winter special.

The special with a completely original story will take place on a "Devil Fruit blocking" fog island in the New World that keeps Devil Fruit users from being able to use their powers. The crew will also again meet and have a rematch with the Foxy Pirates from the Davy Back Fight arc. Foxy now has three new subordinates: Dōjack, Kanshō, and Kōmei, the latter of whom is a member of a family of genius tacticians.

Kōmei devises a plan where Zoro and Sanji take part in an eating contest, and the two eat a strange "good-for-nothing-only" mushroom that turns them into good-for-nothing men. The two are then locked in a jail cell. When the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates chase after their imprisoned crew, they land on the island of Nevlandia, which features a mysterious fog made from sea water, and it has the same effects as seastone. The Straw Hat Pirates' arrival on Nevlandia is also a part of Kōmei's plan.

Kônosuke Uda ( One Piece episodes 1-278, One Piece: Dead End , One Piece: Mega Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle ) will direct the special.

The special will air on December 19 from 9:00 p.m. to 11:10 p.m. on Fuji TV .

The previous TV special, One Piece Episode of Sabo , aired on August 22. The end of the special announced that the 13th anime film in the franchise will open in summer 2016.

A One Piece film opened every year in Japan between 2000-2009. Since then, aside from One Piece Film Z and the 30-minute One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase film in 2011, Fuji TV has aired numerous long specials, such as One Piece Episode of Luffy: Hand Island no Bōken , One Piece Episode of Nami: Kōkaishi no Namida to Nakama no Kizuna , One Piece Episode of Merry: Mō Hitori no Nakama no Monogatari , and One Piece "3D2Y" Ace no Shi wo Koete! Luffy Nakama to no Chikai .

Update: More story details added.

Source: Comic Natalie