{"id":294215,"date":"2025-10-11T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/294215\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T08:40:36","slug":"mercer-labs-brings-popular-anime-one-piece-to-life-in-new-interactive-exhibit-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/294215\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercer Labs brings popular anime \u2018One Piece\u2019 to life in new interactive exhibit in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mercer Labs is bringing \u201cOne Piece\u201d to life with a new exhibition.<\/p>\n

Photo by Peter Murdock<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s Mercer Labs has teamed up with Toei Animation to bring the beloved anime series \u201cOne Piece\u201d to life in a new interactive way.\n<\/p>\n

Mercer Labs, located at 21 Dey St., is an immersive art experience that seamlessly merges art and technology. Having just opened in 2024, the museum has already collaborated with Doja Cat, Robert DeNiro and the Tribeca Film Festival and Hugo Boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a new museum that basically has 15 installations. It has different technologies that allow us to create new art that\u2019s been done before or new art that we are doing right now, it just takes it to the next level,\u201d said Roy Nachum, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Mercer Labs. \u201cAs you walk through the exhibition, you discover installation after installation after installation, it\u2019s basically a completely new museum experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest collaboration for Mercer Labs is ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS, an installation that highlights \u201cOne Piece,\u201d a popular anime and manga series by Eiichiro Oda. Mercer Labs partnered with Toei Animation, which brings \u201cOne Piece\u201d to life in the anime series, to create installations that bring visuals from the beloved show to life in a new way.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The Infinity Room portrays the Thousand Sunny \u2013 the Straw Hat Pirates ship.Photo by Peter Murdock<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we\u2019re doing a show and there\u2019s a new concept coming and we feel like we want to do something, we\u2019re taking it and creating something completely new from what it is,\u201d said Nachum. \u201c\u2018One Piece\u2019 was very exciting because I love anime, I was always looking up to that and it was a very interesting moment to collaborate with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS spans across 11 rooms, highlighting the show\u2019s protagonists, the Straw Hat Pirates, and their adventures in the Land of Wano Arc. When you step into the installation, you will first find the Window Room, which portrays the Straw Hats setting sail for Wano, followed by a huge room with swings that projects scenes from the show, such as the Straw Hats\u2019 captain, Monkey D. Luffy, in his battle with the main antagonist in the Wano Arc, Kaido, captain of the Beast Pirates.<\/p>\n

Throughout the installation, you\u2019ll find more imagery from the Land of Wano in a new, immersive way. Installation highlights include the Infinite Room, which is a mirrored corridor that shows the Straw Hats\u2019 ship the Thousand Sunny on the open sea; the Dragon Room, which features the battle between characters Zoro and King; a sound room that allows visitors to take in the sounds of the ocean; and the Cave Room, covered in pink hydrangeas, showing clips of character Momonoske in his dragon form.<\/p>\n

\"Mercer<\/a>Mercer Labs is bringing \u201cOne Piece\u201d to life with a new exhibition.Photo by Peter Murdock<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been working directly with the \u2018One Piece\u2019 team. This is a true collaboration and with their vision and our vision, we see basically eye to eye. We just put this thing that came to life, so we didn\u2019t compare it to other genres,\u201d said Nachum. \u201cWe created something that\u2019s completely new and different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nachum says that you need not be a \u201cOne Piece\u201d fan to enjoy the installation.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need to know \u2018One Piece\u2019 to enjoy the show. I feel like this is the discovery moment of walking through the space and see anime in different forms with different technology. We\u2019ll get you inspired no matter what,\u201d said Nachum. \u201cIt\u2019s a great show to come ane see. It\u2019s a moment to escape, it\u2019s a moment to go into a dream, it\u2019s a moment to feel a certain way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Individual tickets for ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS are for sale, with $55 for general admission, $50 for students, seniors (65+), and youth, and $75 for VIP, which comes with a complimentary mochi, a customized beverage, and a commemorative poster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ONE PIECE x MERCER LABS will be on display through Nov. 30. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.mercerlabs.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Roy<\/a>Roy Nachum, Co-Founder and Creative Director of Mercer Labs.Photo by Natalie Powers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mercer Labs is bringing \u201cOne Piece\u201d to life with a new exhibition. Photo by Peter Murdock New York…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":294216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,31955,35921,70888,150480,11365,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,80745,24672,55466,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-294215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-amny-weekender","10":"tag-anime","11":"tag-interactive-exhibit","12":"tag-mercer-labs","13":"tag-museum","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-one-piece","21":"tag-pm-newsletter","22":"tag-toei-animation","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115354640959746710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}