One Piece (Anime)

This article deals with the anime version, for the original manga of the same name see One Piece .

One piece
Original title	ONE PIECE （ワ ン ピ ー ス）
transcription	Wan Pīsu
genre	Shōnen , adventure , fantasy , comedy , drama
Original video animation
title	One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Ganzack
Original title	ONE PIECE 倒 せ! 海賊 ギ ャ ン ザ ッ ク
transcription	One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
year	1998
Studio	Production IG
length	24 minutes
Director	Gorō Taniguchi
script	Hiroaki Kitajima
production	Tetsuo Daitoku Hidekazu Terakawa
music	Toshiya Motomichi
synchronization
Anime television series
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Year (s)	since 1999
Studio	Tōei animation
length	22 minutes
Episodes	939+ ( list )
Director	Konosuke Uda (1–278) Junji Shimizu (131–159) Munehisa Sakai (244–372) Hiroaki Miyamoto (352–) Toshinori Fukazawa (663–)
idea	Eiichirō Oda
production	Makoto Seino Hiroyuki Sakurada
music	Kōhei Tanaka Shirō Hamaguchi
First broadcast	October 20, 1999 on Fuji TV
German-language first broadcast	April 22, 2003 on RTL II
synchronization

One Piece (ワ ン ピ ー ス Wan Pīsu) as an anime goes back to 1998, when a 30-minute OVA was produced on the occasion of the previous year's success of the manga One Piece in the Shōnen Jump and the 30th anniversary of the Jump Super Anime Tour . Production of the television series began the following year, and over 900 episodes have appeared since then. In addition, Tōei Animation has produced thirteen films, over ten television specials and some original video animations and short films. Individual companies developed numerous merchandising items, including trading card games and a large number of video games for common consoles. With sales of $ 21 billion, One Piece is one of the most successful media franchises in the world.

OVA short film

On July 28, 1998, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Weekly Shōnen Jump for the Jump Super Anime Tour, a series of OVA short films appeared, in addition to One Piece, Hunter × Hunter and Seikimatsu Leader Dan Takeshi . Readers of the Weekly Shōnen Jump had the opportunity to purchase a copy of the OVAs on VHS for ¥ 500 .

The OVA was titled One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Ganzack (ONE PIECE 倒 せ！ 海賊 ギ ャ ン ザ ッ ク, One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku , in German "One Piece: Mach (t) him ready! The pirate Ganzack") produced by the Studio Production IG , which is used for films such as Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth , Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion , Jin Roh and Ghost in the Shell .

Tatsuya Hamazaki adapted the OVA in 1999 as a light novel of the same name (novel; ISBN 4-08-703084-9 ). This was published in German by Carlsen in 2010 under the title Nieder mit Ganzack! ISBN 978-3-551-75666-4 .

action

Luffy , Zorro and Nami are sailing hungry in a small nutshell across the ocean when it is sunk by a sea monster, which also kidnaps Nami. Washed up on the beach of a nearby island, Luffy is awakened in a rough way when he gets into an argument between the little Medaka and some pirates from Ganzack's troop, who are not up to him.

synchronization

The OVA has never been published in Germany, which is why there is no German-dubbed version.

role	Japanese speaker
Monkey D. Luffy	Urara Takano
Lorenor Zorro	Wataru Takagi
Nami	Megumi Toyoguchi
General Ganzack	Norio Wakamoto
Medaka	Jun Tanaka
Herring / narrator	Ikuya Sawaki
Skid	Takkō Ishimori

Television series

1999 began the production of the television series by Toei Animation Ltd. with the aim of a film adaptation of the manga, which should go on the air on the Japanese television channel Fuji Television on October 20th of that year and has since been broadcast on a weekly basis with occasional interruptions and changes in the broadcasting time. Under the direction of the directors Kōnosuke Uda and Munehisa Sakai, almost 950 episodes plus bonus episodes have been created on the occasion of Japanese holidays . The series is so popular that it ranks 21st in the 100 most popular anime series in an online poll conducted by TV Asahi in 2006. With the broadcast of episode 207, the series has been broadcast on Japanese television since the end of October 2004 in HDTV .

The series was regularly among the ten anime series with the highest ratings in 2007. Currently, the cost of producing one episode is about 10,000,000 yen ~ about 80,000 euros.

action

The plot of the television series largely coincides with that of the original Mangas. Differences can be seen in the introduction to the story, but also at the beginning in the point of the depicted violence: The first chapters of the manga are shown as a flashback when Luffy tells his first follower Zorro about why his straw hat is so important to him . The test of whether Luffy is a pirate is limited to a joke that Luffy's role model allows himself with him. A further change in the plot concerns the so-called filler (filling episodes), which augment the actual plot with additional elements and adventures so that the television broadcast does not progress too quickly compared to the original manga.

Export of the series

In addition to the successful placement on the domestic market both through the television series itself and the its affiliated merchandising such as by video games , trading cards and action - and other collectible figures, the series has been exported to different regions and countries of the world: Different license participants acquired over time different regional exploitation rights .

So the series has so far been carried out in different parts of Europe , Asia , America and Oceania , where it has been partially adapted to different television landscapes and censorship standards. In Germany, the series started on April 22, 2003 on RTL II with 130 synchronized episodes, which sometimes cut the episodes to different degrees. The series was dubbed uncut with no falsifications, as was the case with the first 52 episodes of Dragon Ball , Dragon Ball GT or Naruto . Playbacks increased sharply from episode 263 in 2008, but decreased again from episode 315 on Tele 5.

So far, the German rights holder, the Tele München Gruppe , has acquired four more seasons after the first, making a total of 400 episodes. Initially, the broadcast was continued with the second season beginning on March 11, 2008 on RTL II. The last 86, along with other episodes, were shown for the first time in German from November 2, 2009 to September 17, 2011 on Tele 5 . In February 2011 it was announced that the German dubbing from episode 401 had been discontinued for the time being, as Tele 5 - the dubbing studio's last client - had decided to take the series out of the program.

From April 13, 2009, One Piece ran uncut with all episodes previously published in German on the pay-TV channel Animax .

VIVA bought all seven seasons from the one-piece licensor, the Tele-München-Gruppe, and broadcast them uncut from September 5, 2011 to June 26, 2012. The rights later switched to ProSiebenSat.1 Media .

ProSieben Maxx aired the eighth season for the first time from September 11 to December 19, 2014, on Thursdays and Fridays in double episodes. The station showed a preview of the eighth season with episodes 401 and 402 on April 24, 2014. The season was broadcast uncut.

In December 2015, ProSieben Maxx announced that it would show the second half of the eighth season in German for the first time from January 2016. Since January 18, 2016, the station has been showing episodes from 457 onwards, with one episode per working day (Monday to Friday). This broadcast is also uncut. After ProSieben Maxx temporarily stopped broadcasting One Piece with episode 517 in April 2016, the station has been running the anime again in its program since July 2017 and regularly broadcasts new episodes.

Since November 12, 2018, the two video-on-demand platforms Anime on Demand and Wakanim have been releasing the series, starting with episode 861, weekly in the original with German subtitles as a simulcast . Also Crunchyroll announced that they are starting to show the series with episode 923, in simulcast. In addition, all the old episodes should be available for download from Crunchyroll.

synchronization

The German version of the television series was provided with German-language dialogues up to episode 314 on behalf of RTL II and for episodes 315 to 400 on behalf of Tele 5 in the Munich dubbing studios of PPA Film GmbH. Since episode 401 the series has been edited and dubbed by Rescue Film GmbH, on behalf of Tōei Animation Europe.

role	Japanese speaker	German speaker
teller	Mahito Ōba	Reinhard Brock (up to episode 400, film 1 & 9) Andreas Wilde (episode 401–558 & specials) Andreas Baum (from episode 559)
Straw hat pirate gang
Monkey D. Luffy	Mayumi Tanaka	Daniel hose
Lorenor Zorro	Kazuya Nakai Megumi Urawa (child)	Philipp Brammer (up to episode 400 & up to film 11) Uwe Thomsen (from episode 401 & from film 12)
Nami	Akemi Okamura Wakana Yamazaki (episode 70-79)	Stephanie waiter
Usopp / Sogeking	Kappei Yamaguchi	Dirk Meyer
Vinsmoke Sanji	Hiroaki Hirata Ikue Ōtani (child)	Hubertus von Lerchenfeld
Tony Chopper	Ikue Ōtani Ikura Kazue (episode 254–263)	Florian Halm (up to episode 262) Martin Halm (from episode 263 & films)
Princess Nefeltari Vivi	Misa Watanabe	Kathrin Gaube
Nico Robin	Yuriko Yamaguchi Yuko Kobayashi (episode 299-319) Anzu Nagai (child)	Simone Brahmann
Cutty "Franky" Framm	Kazuki Yao Junko Noda (child)	Frank Engelhardt Julian Manuel (young)
Brook	Yūichi Nagashima	Benedikt Gutjan
marine
Corby	Doi Mika	Katrin Fröhlich (up to episode 69) Inez Günther (episode 314-324) Tim Schwarzmaier (from episode 550)
Captain Morgan	Banjō Ginga	Willi Röbke
Helmeppo	Kōichi Nagano	Oliver Stritzel (up to episode 324) Gerd Meyer (from episode 550)
Vice Admiral Smoker	Ginzō Matsuo (up to episode 79) Mahito Ōba (from episode 94)	Ekkehardt Belle
Tashigi	Junko Noda	Maren Rainer
Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp	Hiroshi Naka	Frank Engelhardt (episode 68-69) Dieter Memel (from episode 313)
Grand Admiral Sengoku	Takkō Ishimori	Matti Klemm Gerhard Jilka (episodes 277-278) Matthias Kupfer (films 10 & 11)
Admiral Kuzan / Aokiji (Blue Pheasant)	Takehito Koyasu	Ole Pfennig
Grand Admiral Sakazuki / Akainu	Fumihiko Tachiki	Gerhard Acktun (episode 278 & film 11) Michael Brennicke (from episode 462 & film 12)
Admiral Borsalino / Kizaru	Unshō Ishizuka (up to episode 751) Ryōtarō Okiayu (from episode 881)	Mike Carl
Admiral Issho / Fujitora	Ikuya Sawaki	Walter von Hauff
Samurai of the Seas
Buggy, "the clown"	Shigeru Chiba	Gudo Hoegel
"Hawk Eye" / Mihawk Dulacre	Takeshi Aono (up to episode 460) Hirohiko Kakegawa (from episode 461)	Matthias Klie
Don Quixote de Flamingo / Joker	Hideyuki Tanaka Tomoe Hanba (child)	Pascal Breuer (episode 151) Jochen Bendel (episode 207) Gerhard Acktun (episode 398) Jakob Riedl (from episode 458)
Bartholomew Bear	Hideyuki Hori	Thomas Albus
Gecko Moria	Katsuhisa Hōki	Ulrich Frank (up to episode 374) Alexander Brem (from episode 458)
Trafalgar D. Water Law	Hiroshi Kamiya	Bernd Simon (episode 392) Manou Lubowski (from episode 394)
Boa Hancock	Kotono Mitsuishi	Ilena Gwisdalla
Jimbei	Daisuke Gōri (up to episode 439) Katsuhisa Hōki (from episode 440)	Willi Röbke
The 4 emperors
Shanks	Shuichi Ikeda	Martin Halm
Marshall D. Teach / " Blackbeard "	Akio Ōtsuka	Christoph Jablonka
Edward Newgate / "Whitebeard"	Kinryu Arimoto	Manfred Erdmann
Charlotte Linlin / "Big Mom"	Toshiko Fujita (episode 571) Mami Koyama (from episode 786)	Nicole Belstler-Boettcher
More pirates
Lady Alvida	Yōko Matsuoka	Anita Höfer (up to episode 422) Angela Wiederhut (from episode 512)
Captain Black / Beauregard	Kōichi Hashimoto	Walter von Hauff
Don Creek	Fumihiko Tachiki	Christoph Jablonka
gin	Kenichi Ono	Frank Röth
Arlong	Jūrōta Kosugi	Peter Musäus Pierre Peters-Arnolds (episode 387)
Bellamy, "the hyena"	Wataru Takagi	Oliver Mink
Foxy, "the silver fox"	Am Shimada	Christian Weygand
Eustass "Captain" Kid	Daisuke Namikawa	Ole Pfennig
Basil Hawkins	Shigenori Souya	Niko Macoulis
Jewelry Bonney	Reiko Kiuchi (up to episode 736) Reiko Takagi (from episode 888)	Sonja Reichelt
Capone Bege	Naoki Tatsuta	Wolfgang Schatz (episode 392-400) Niko Macoulis (episode 401 & 490) Gerhard Acktun (episode 513)
Baroque company
Gal Dino / Mr. 3	Nobuyuki Hiyama	Manfred Trilling
Sir Crocodile / Mr. 0	Ryūzaburō Atomo	Andreas Borcherding (episode 76-79) Frank Röth (from episode 91 & film 8)
Bon Curry / Bentham / Mr. 2	Kazuki Yao	Pierre Peters-Arnolds (up to ep. 129 & film 8) Benedikt Weber (from ep. 431)
Pola / Ms. Doublefinger	Ako Mayama (episode 103-104) Yūko Tachibana (from episode 107)	Susanne von Medvey
Jazz Boner / Mr. 1	Tetsu Inada	Crock Krumbiegel
Whitebeard's gang of pirates
Puma D. Ace	Toshio Furukawa Daisuke Sakaguchi (child)	Pascal Breuer Wolfgang Schatz (episode 381)
Marco, "the phoenix"	Masakazu Morita	Niko Macoulis (episode 151) Johannes Raspe (from episode 316)
Jozu	Takashi Nagasako	Michael Schwarzmaier
Vista	Masaya Takatsuka	René Oltmanns
Blackbeard's gang of pirates
Jesus barges	Tetsu Inada	Gerhard Jilka (episode 146) Ekkehardt Belle (episode 151–513) Patrick Zwingmann (from episode 634)
Raffit	Taiki Matsuno	Andreas Borcherding (episode 151) Wolfgang Schatz (from episode 325)
Shiryuu	Takayuki Sugo	Andreas Borcherding
Catharina Devon	Kimiko Saitō	Inez Günther
Avalo Pizarro	Kazunari Tanaka	Johannes Haag
Vasco Shot	Naoki Tatsuta	Klaus Wolf
CP9 / CP0
Rob Lucci	Tomokazu Seki	Manfred Trilling
Caliphate	Naomi Shindo	Kathrin Simon
Spandam	Masaya Onosaka	Tobias Lelle
owl	Kumiko Watanabe	Claus-Peter Damitz
Revolutionaries
Monkey D. Dragon	Hidekatsu Shibata	Gerhard Jilka
Emporio Ivankov	Norio Imamura (up to episode 460) Mitsuo Iwata (from episode 461)	Hans-Georg Panczak
Inazuma	Kenji Hamada (Male Form) Umeka Shōji (Female Form)	Gerd Meyer (male form) Julia Lowack (female form)
Sabo	Tōru Furuya Junko Takeuchi (child)	Felix Mayer
Other characters / civilians / former pirates
Pirate King Gol D. Roger	Chikao Ōtsuka Masane Tsukayama (from episode 849) Takeshi Kusao (young)	Hartmut Neugebauer Patrick Roche (young)
Makino	Makiko Ōmoto	Tatiana Pokorny
Silver's Rayleigh	Keiichi Sonobe	Ole Pfennig (episode 8) Christoph Jablonka (from episode 397)
Jeff	Kōji Yada (up to episode 324) Ben Hiura (from episode 794)	Dirk Galuba
Enel	Toshiyuki Morikawa	Stephan Hoffmann
Kali Dadan	Noriko Uemura	Angelika Bender
Kinemon	Kenyu Horiuchi	Matthias Klie (Series) Manfred Trilling (Specials)
Caesar Crown	Ryūsei Nakao	Robinson Reichel

Japanese speakers Akemi Okamura, Ikue Ōtani and Yuriko Yamaguchi suspended their employment as seiyū due to motherhood .

music

Opening and closing credits

So far, 16 opening credits and a total of 18 end credits have been produced for the television series One Piece . As a special feature, the ending has been omitted since episode 284 in favor of an approximately two and a half minute opening. The German-language versions were implemented by Arts of Toyco , with one opening and all closing songs omitted. With the beginning of episode 401, only the Japanese opening songs are used in the German version, although due to the lack of licenses for the actual openings in episodes 401 to 456, Jungle P had to be used again and therefore Share the World, Kaze o Sagashite and Fight Together has so far been completely omitted.

Opening credits

No.	Interpreter	title	Episodes	German implementation	Interpreter	Episodes
1	Hiroshi Kitadani	ウ ィ ー ア ー ! ( We Are! )	1-47	The legend	Noel Pix	1-115 279-283
2	Folder 5	Believe	48-115	no	-	-
3	The baby stars	ヒ カ リ へ ( Hikari e , Eng. "Into the light")	116-168	Into the light	Stefan ore	116-168
4th	Bon-Bon Blanco	Bon Voyage! ( French , "Have a good trip!")	169-206	Over the sea	Petra Scheeser	169-195
5	BOYSTYLE	コ コ ロ の ち ず ( Kokoro no Chizu , German "card of the heart")	207-263	Card of the heart		196-263
6th	D-51	Brand New World	264-278	The journey starts	Petra Scheeser Fred Röttcher	264-278
7th	The seiyū of the straw hat gang	ウ ィ ー ア ー! ~ 7 人 の 麦 わ ら 海賊 団 篇 ( We Are! )	279-283	no	-	-
8th	Tackey and Tsubasa	Crazy Rainbow	284-325	Rainbow star	Ron van Lankeren	284-325
9	5050	Jungle P	326-372	Jungle P		326-372 401-458 (jp.)
10	TVXQ	We are! (Cover version)	373-394	On the way	Stephan Kämmerer	373-400
11		Share the world	395-425	no	-	-
12	Hexagon Family	風 を さ が し て ( Kaze o Sagashite , Eng. "Looking for the wind")	426-458	no	-	-
13	THE ROOTLESS	One day	459-492	no	-	459-516 (jp.)
14th	Namie Amuro	Fight together	493-516	no	-	-
15th	Hiroshi Kitadani	We Go!	517-590	no	-	517- (jp.)
16	Shinzato Kouta	Hands up!	591-628	-	-	-
17th	AAA	Wake up!	629-686	-	-	-
18th	Generations from Exile Tribe	Hard knock days	687-746	-	-	-
19th	Hiroshi Kitadani & Kishidan	We Can!	747-806	-	-	-
20th	Namie Amuro	Hope	807–	-	-	-

Credits

No.	Interpreter	title	Episodes
1	Maki Otsuki	Memories	1-30
2	Maki Otsuki	RUN! RUN! RUN!	31-63
3	TOMATO CUBE	私 が い る よ ( Watashi ga Iru yo )	64-73
4th	Suiteisho-jo	し ょ う ち の す け ( Shōchi no Suke ) / Agreement	74-81
5	Ai-Sachi	Before Dawn	82-94
6th	The Kaleidoscope	Fish	95-106
7th	Uehara Takako	GLORY - 君 が い る か ら - ( GLORY -Kimi ga Iru kara- )	107-118
8th	Janne Da Arc	Shining Ray	119-132
9	Ruppina	Free Will	133-155
10	Ruppina	Faith	156-168
11	ZZ	A to Z	169-181
12	Shela	月 と 太陽 ( Tsuki to Taiyō , "moon and sun")	182-195
13	Aiko Ikuta	Dreamship	196-206
14th	Tackey and Tsubasa	未来 航海 ( Mirai Kōkai , " Future Voyage ")	207-230
15th	Asia Engineer	エ タ ー ナ ル ポ ー ズ ( Etānaru Pōzu , " Eternal Pose ")	231-245
16	Triplane	Dear friends	246-255
17th	Tohoshinki TVXQ	明日 は 来 る か ら ( Ashita wa Kuru kara , " Because Tomorrow Will Come ")	256-263
18th	Delicatessen	Adventure World	264-278
Special	The seiyū of the straw hat gang	Family	various

German DVD release

Kazé Germany announced on January 27, 2012 that they had secured the rights to the first 195 episodes and are planning a DVD release from May 2012. Kazé released the first 195 episodes in 6 box sets of 6-7 discs from May 25, 2012 to March 29, 2013 without original Japanese sound. On December 23, 2013, Kaze announced that episodes 196 to 358 would be released in six boxes so far. So far, a total of 715 episodes have been published on 23 boxes.

DVD name	Episodes	Disks	Release date	Additional Information
Box 1	30th	6th	May 25, 2012	Contains the first 30 episodes of the series: East Blue (part 1)
Box 2	31	6th	July 27, 2012	Contains episodes 31 through 61 of the series: East Blue (part 2)
Box 3	31	6th	28 Sep 2012	Contains episodes 62 through 92 of the series: Entry on the Grand Line Drumm
Box 4	38	7th	Nov 30, 2012	Contains episodes 93 to 130 of the series: Alabasta
Box 5	32	6th	Jan. 26, 2013	Contains episodes 131 to 162 of the series: After Alabasta Skypia (part 1)
Box 6	33	6th	29 Mar 2013	Contains episodes 163 through 195 of the series: Skypia (part 2)
Box 7	33	6th	29 Aug 2014	Contains episodes 196 through 228 of the series: After Skypia
Box 8	35	6th	Oct 31, 2014	Contains episodes 229 through 263 of the series: Water 7
Box 9	31	6th	27 Mar 2015	Contains episodes 264 through 294 of the series: Enie's lobby (part 1)
Box 10	31	6th	May 29, 2015	Contains episodes 295 through 325 of the series: Enie's lobby (part 2)
Box 11	33	6th	28 Aug 2015	Contains episodes 326 through 358 of the series: Enie's lobby (part 3) Thriller Bark (part 1)
Box 12	32	6th	Feb. 26, 2016	Contains episodes 359 through 390 of the series Thriller Bark (part 2) Sabaody Archipelago (Part 1)
Box 13	31	6th	June 24, 2016	Contains episodes 391 through 421 of the series: Sabaody Archipelago (part 2) Amazon Lily
Box 14	35	6th	Oct 28, 2016	Contains episodes 422 through 456 of the series: Impel Down
Box 15	33	6th	Feb. 24, 2017	Contains episodes 457 through 489 of the series: Marine Ford
Box 16	26th	6th	June 30, 2017	Includes episodes 490 through 516 of the series: post war period
Box 17	28	6th	Oct. 27, 2017	Contains episodes 517 through 545 of the series: Fishman Island (Part 1)
Box 18	29	6th	23 Feb 2018	Contains episodes 546 through 574 of the series: Fishman Island (Part 2)
Box 19	26th	6th	June 29, 2018	Contains episodes 575 through 601 of the series: Punk Hazard (Part 1)
Box 20	27	6th	Oct. 26, 2018	Contains episodes 602 through 628 of the series: Punk Hazard (Part 2)
Box 21	28	4th	19th Aug 2019	Includes episodes 629 through 656 of the series: Dress pink (part 1)
Box 22	31	5	5th Dec 2019	Contains episodes 657 through 687 of the series: Dress pink (part 2)
Box 23	28	4th	May 7, 2020	Contains episodes 688 through 715 of the series: Dress pink (part 3)
Box 24	31	5	probably 6 Aug 2020	Contains episodes 716 through 746 of the series: Dress pink (part 4)

More about publications of the series

The series appears on DVD in various countries . In Japan, the media are published at regular intervals. With episode 207, the television version was produced and broadcast in 16: 9 format. The DVDs also contain the episodes in widescreen format . A publication on Blu-ray media in high definition is still pending .

In DA-CH , the series was broadcast exclusively on television, where all episodes were broadcast in 4: 3 format , including those originally produced in 16: 9 up to and including episode 314. The episodes of the series were only edited uncensored on pay TV and broadcast on VIVA . A DVD release announced by Polyband for 2003 was canceled at short notice on the grounds that the series was too long. The information that has meanwhile been posted on the licensee's website has been removed and the adverts that have been placed have not been broadcast.

In the USA, the series was initially licensed by 4kids Entertainment, which changed the series from time to time to make it more compatible for the American television market. All elements considered harmful or racist, such as cigarettes (this is how Sanji sucks lollipops instead of smoking) or blackface were replaced by other objects or retouched accordingly. Furthermore, complete parts of the plot were simply left out, making it no longer comprehensible. In the meantime, the series license in the USA has been taken over by Funimation, which they re-dub and release uncut on DVD.

cinemamovies

Since 2000, a one-piece film has been released in Japanese cinemas every year. As can be seen in other movies on various Shōnen manga, the well-known characters play along and live through a story that is closed from the actual plot. In 2007 a story that had already been portrayed in manga and television series was summarized in a cinema adventure for the first time. This movie is based on the adventures in Alabasta. Another film, released in March 2008, is based on the events in Drumm, whereby the plot is not only greatly shortened, but sometimes presented differently.

For the tenth film, the character design and storyline were created by Oda. It became known after the tenth film that a new one-piece film would only be released every two years thereafter. The cinema-Special One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase , who does not belong to the film canon, was executed in contrast to the other films as a 3D animation film and ran as Jump Heroes movie called double feature together with Toriko 3D: Kaimaku Gourmet Adventure !! .

The films have been shown in German and Austrian cinemas since One Piece Gold . On free TV, the first 10 films were shown for the first time in German from August 18, 2012 on the VIVA channel, always on Saturdays during prime time . The eleventh film premiered on September 6, 2014 on ProSieben .

The German anime DVD label Kazé released the first ten films on DVD between February 2011 and September 2012. Starting with Film 5, Kazé is also releasing the films on Blu-ray alongside the DVD version. There will be no re-release of the first four films on Blu-ray. In November 2013, Kazé continued with the release of the eleventh film.

#	Japanese title	German title	Theatrical release	German DVD release	Length (min)	Box office income (yen)
01	One piece	One Piece - The Movie	4th Mar 2000	Feb 25, 2011	50	2,160,000,000
02	Nejimaki Jima no Bōken (ね じ ま き 島 の 冒 険 )	Adventure on the spiral island!	3rd Mar 2001	25th Mar 2011	60	3,000,000,000
03	Chinjū Jima no Choppā Ōkoku (珍 獣 島 の チ ョ ッ パ ー 王国 )	Chopper on the island of strange animals	2nd Mar 2002	May 13, 2011	56	2,000,000,000
04th	Dead End no Bōken (デ ッ ド エ ン ド の 冒 険 )	The dead end race	1st Mar 2003	July 29, 2011	95	2,000,000,000
05	Norowareta Seiken (呪 わ れ た 聖 剣 )	The curse of the holy sword	6th Mar 2004	Sep 30 2011	95	1,800,000,000
06th	Omatsuri-danshaku to Himitsu no Shima (オ マ ツ リ 男爵 と 秘密 の 島 )	Baron Omatsuri and the mysterious island	5th Mar 2005	Oct 28, 2011	91	1,200,000,000
07th	Karakuri-jō no Meka Kyohei (カ ラ ク リ 城 の メ カ 巨 兵 )	Karakuris Castle Metal soldiers	4th Mar 2006	Dec 16, 2011	94
08th	Episode of Alabasta Sabaku no Ōjo to Kaizoku-tachi (エ ピ ソ ー ド オ ブ ア ラ バ ス タ 砂 漠 の 王 女 と 海賊 た ち )	Adventure in Alabasta - The Desert Princess	3rd Mar 2007	Feb 24, 2012	90
09	Episode of Chopper + Fuyu ni Saku, Kiseki no Sakura (エ ピ ソ ー ド オ ブ チ ョ ッ パ ー ＋ 冬 に 咲 咲 く 、 奇跡 の 桜 )	Chopper and the wonder of the winter cherry blossom	1st Mar 2008	May 25, 2012	113
10	One Piece Film: Strong World (ONE PIECE FILM STRONG WORLD)	Strong World	Dec 12, 2009	Sep 14 2012	115	4,700,000,000
0S.	Mugiwara Chase ( 麦 わ ら チ ェ イ ス )	-	19 Mar 2011	-	30th
11	One Piece Film Z	Z	Dec 15, 2012	Nov 29, 2013	108	9,000,000,000 (worldwide)
12	One Piece Film Gold	gold	23rd July 2016	April 7, 2017	120	5,180,000,000
13	One Piece Stampede	Stampede	9 Aug 2019	June 22, 2020	101

With the exception of the first film, a novel by Tatsuya Hamazaki was published for each film (see One Piece # novels ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This popular anime franchise is now more successful than The Lord of the Rings. Retrieved April 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Article on the OVA short film in the encyclopedia of the Anime News Network
3. ↑ Trivia Entries in the Anime News Network Encyclopedia
4. ↑ Entry on OVA in the OPwiki
5. ↑ Down with Ganzack! Carlsen, accessed August 31, 2013 . 
6. ↑ news message about the online survey conducted by TV Asahi in Anime News Network (English)
7. ↑ Evidence for broadcast of the 207th episode on AnimeDB.net
8. ↑ Top 10 audience ratings for anime series in the weeks from April 30th to May 20th 2007 on Anime News Network
9. ↑ Audience Report for the week of December 3-9, 2007 on Anime News Network
10. ↑ ^{a b} Article "One Piece (TV)" on Anime News Network
11. ↑ One Piece Volume 1: “The Adventure Begins” ISBN 3-551-74581-1
12. ↑ One Piece - Episode # 4 "The Red Shanks and His Hat"
13. ↑ Monkey D. Luffy / Differences between Manga and Anime in the OPwiki
14. ↑ "One Piece": From Tele 5 , OtakuTimes.de
15. ↑ Tele 5: Off for “One Piece” series is discontinued. February 11, 2011, accessed June 19, 2011 . 
16. ↑ VIVA licenses all German One Piece seasons ( Memento from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , MANIME.de
17. ↑ One Piece Season 5 from February 3rd at VIVA ( Memento from July 12th 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), MANIME.de
18. ↑ One Piece will be part of the VIVA program in the future ( Memento from September 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , MANIME.de
19. ↑ One Piece: From January 2016 new episodes on ProSieben Maxx , serienjunkies.de
20. ↑ "One Piece" gets simulcast in Germany! In: MAnime.de. November 6, 2018, accessed November 6, 2018.
21. ↑ Endymion: "One Piece" Crunchyroll brings the series completely. In: Anime Sushi. February 22, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
22. ↑ Homepage of PPA Film GmbH
23. ↑ Entry on Anime on DVD
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25. ↑ Presentation of the announced RTL2 soundtrack sampler "Anime Hits Vol. 6"
26. ↑ ^{a b c} Web presence of Toyco Studios , accessed November 2009
27. ↑ Announcement in the one-piece manga: Chapter 515 for the episode to be broadcast on October 5, 2008 in Shōnen Jump issue 42/2008
28. ↑ Amuro Namie to open for “ONE PIECE” with song, “Fight Together” ( Memento from May 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), tokyohive.com
29. ↑ Kitadani Hiroshi's “We go!” chosen as the theme song for new ONE PIECE anime ( Memento from August 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), tokyohive.com
30. ↑ The refrain contains a play on words made up of English words and Japanese numerals: ichi (one), ni (two), "Sunshine" (sounds like "san" for three), yon (four), We go! (go means five)
31. ↑ ^{a b} http://opforum.net/showthread.php?tid=2898&pid=53846#pid53846
32. ↑ AAA to be PR Ambassador For Fifteenth Anniversary of “ONE PIECE” ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), BARKS.jp
33. ↑ ^{a b} Spelling of the soundtrack collection Animission Vol.1 - UPC 5-099751-538226
34. ↑ Kazé Newsletter # 1 - January 2012. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 23, 2013 ; Retrieved December 8, 2016 . 
35. ↑ One Piece - The TV series. DVD Box 1. Kaze, accessed December 8, 2013 . 
36. ↑ One Piece - The TV series. DVD Box 6. Kaze, accessed December 8, 2013 . 
37. ↑ Anchor loose - the Flying Lamb sets sail in 2014 with further episodes! In: kaze-online.de, accessed on July 29, 2017
38. ↑ Animexx.de: News. April 13, 2003, accessed on January 26, 2009 (message in the Animexx news portal regarding the DVD announcement). 
39. ↑ Animexx.de: News. July 13, 2003, accessed on January 26, 2009 (notification in the Animexx news portal regarding the cancellation of the DVD release). 
40. ↑ AnimeDigital. April 19, 2003, accessed on January 26, 2009 (Review of the broadcast of the television series.): “The announced DVD release of Polyband will not take place, although the first DVD was advertised on television. When asked by AnimeDigital, Polyband replied that they did not want to publish the series because it was "too long". " 
41. ^ Sanji - One Piece Encyclopedia - Wikia. Retrieved on August 18, 2008 (English, notes on the censorship measures): “In the 4Kids anime, Sanji instead sucks on lollipops (due to the audience the dub was aimed at). For the Funimation version the cigarette was completely edited out and any scenes that show him lighting cigarettes or other such actions were redrawn. " 
42. ↑ White Pirates, Black Pirates? - Anime News Network. Retrieved August 18, 2008 . 
43. ↑ 4kids Entertainment - One Piece Encyclopedia - Wikia. Retrieved August 18, 2008 . 
44. ↑ Cast off! The straw hat gang is back… . June 9, 2013. Archived from the original on December 21, 2014. Retrieved on November 14, 2014.
45. ↑ VIVA presents “One Piece” feature films from August ( Memento from January 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
46. ↑ Quota check: This is how the German premiere of “One Piece Film - Z” ran on ProSieben . September 7, 2014. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
47. ↑ Kazé has licensed the 10 "One Piece" movies! , facebook.com
48. ↑ One Piece Movies 5 to 10 will be released on Blu-ray ( Memento from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
49. ↑ Straw Hat Gang vs. Z: The first details . September 8, 2013. Accessed November 14, 2014.
50. ↑ http://www.eiren.org/toukei/2000.html
51. ↑ http://www.eiren.org/toukei/2001.html
52. ↑ http://www.eiren.org/toukei/2002.html
53. ↑ http://www.eiren.org/toukei/2003.html
54. ↑ http: // ww w.eiren.org/toukei/2004.html
55. ↑ http://www.eiren.org/toukei/2005.html
56. ^ Toei Animation Raises This Year's Earnings Forecast. February 25, 2010, accessed February 25, 2010 . 

Web links

Official websites

• Homepage of Tōei Animation for the current movie (Japanese)
• Homepage of Toei Animation for the TV series (Japanese)
• Homepage of Fuji TV for the television series (Japanese)

Secondary sources

• One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku in the Internet Movie Database (English) ( OVA short film )
• One Piece in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Cut reports on the individual episodes of the German TV version at Animedigital.de
• OPwiki - Fanwiki for One Piece