One Piece

Warning: May contain Spoilers.

The Anime | The Manga | The Movies

The Anime

One Piece is a pirate themed anime. The main story revolves around the main character Luffy (Monkey D. Luffy) who dreams of being the pirate king. He travels the seas gathering his nakama (Crew mates), defeating all that oppose them, as he makes his way to get the biggest treasure of all, ONE PIECE! Like most fighting based anime, most of the characters possess some sort of power, in one piece certain characters have the power of the 'Devils Fruit'. The devils fruits are rare fruits that when consumed give the user a special ability, there are many different fruit and each one is unique and one of a kind. The main character Luffy has the ability of the gomu gomu fruit, which turned his body into rubber, allowing him to stretch his body. This offers him many techniques when fighting and allows him to hit powerful blows on his opposition.

The Main Characters

Monkey D. Luffy (Rubber Man - Captain)
Roronoa Zoro (Swordsman)
Nami (Navigator)
Usopp (Sharp Shooter)
Sanji (Cook)
Tony Tony Chopper (Docter)
Nico Robin (Archeologist)
Franky (Shipwright)
Brook (Musician)

One piece anime was originally released in Japan on October 20th 1999. It was later released as a 4Kids english dub in the Us on September 16th 2004, however this series only lasted 104 episodes (the first 143 original episodes compressed), and the scenes were edited. Funimation obtained the license to make an English dub of the series, and released their first dvd on May 27th 2008. Two more sets followed on September 16th 2008. The Funimation dubbed version was premiered on Cartoon network on September 29th 2007 which was then cancelled on March 29th 2008, to date this was the only television release.

The Manga

The Manga is both written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, it was first premiered in an issue of the Shonen Jump magazine on August 4th 1997.

I personally do not read the manga, and as of current do not want to research it, to prevent spoilers to the anime xP.

The Movies

One Piece: The Movie
Clockwork Island Adventure
Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals
Dead End Adventure
Curse of the Sacred Sword
Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle
Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates
Episode of Chopper: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura
One Piece: Strong World

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