One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation, premiering on Fuji Television and its FNS affiliates in October 1999. It is based on the 1997 manga series One Piece by Eiichiro Oda. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a young man whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his crew, named the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the world's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates.
Since its premiere in Japan, more than 1,100 episodes have aired and were later exported to over 80 countries internationally.
Episodes
Voice cast and characters
Character Japanese English(Toei Animation / Crunchyroll) Monkey D. Luffy Mayumi Tanaka Colleen Clinkenbeard Roronoa Zoro Kazuya Nakai Christopher Sabat Nami Akemi Okamura Luci Christian Usopp Kappei Yamaguchi Sonny Strait Sanji Hiroaki Hirata Eric Vale Tony Tony Chopper Ikue Ōtani Brina Palencia Nico Robin Yuriko Yamaguchi Stephanie Young Franky Kazuki Yao (until 2024)Subaru Kimura (from 2025) Patrick Seitz Brook Chō Ian Sinclair Jimbei Daisuke Gori (2009)Katsuhisa Hoki (2010–present) Daniel Baugh Narrator Mahito Ohba Bill Jenkins
Production Release
In October 2024, it was announced that the anime series would go on hiatus until April 2025, and that a remastered and re-edited version of the Fishman Island story arc would air in the show's timeslot during the break. After returning, the show moved to Sunday nights for the first time since 2006, marking the anime's return to a primetime network timeslot. Episode 1123 premiered on April 5, 2025, as part of the network's timeslot before moving to its fixed Sunday night slot a day later, beginning with episode 1124 on April 6.
A "special episode" set after the events of the Wano Country arc, titled "Luffy, Law", was screened at the MBS Anime Fest 2025 on February 19, 2025, and was released onto the series' official YouTube channel the following day.
On October 28, 2025, it was announced that the series would go on hiatus from January to March 2026. It resumed with the Elbaph arc on April 5, 2026, and will adopt a divided, two-cours-per-year structure, with a maximum of 26 episodes annually. This marks a shift from the continuous year-round structure that has been in place since the series' premiere in 1999.
English localization and broadcasting On June 8, 2004, 4Kids Entertainment acquired the license for distribution of One Piece in North America; 4Kids Entertainment contracted Viz Media to handle home video distribution. 4Kids' in-house musicians wrote a new background score and theme song nicknamed "Pirate Rap". 4Kids' dub mandated edits for content and length, which reduced the first 143 episodes into 104.One Piece 4Kids dub, episodes 1–104 (1–143 uncut) Initially, 4Kids originally created an English version of the first opening theme, "We Are!" by Russell Velazquez. It premiered in the United States on September 18, 2004 on the Fox network as part of the weekend programming block FoxBox, and later aired on Cartoon Network on their Saturday night action programming block, Toonami in April 2005. It also aired in other blocks and line-ups, such as its Monday-Thursday night prime-time line-up and its Miguzi weekday after-school action block in 2006. Production was halted in 2006 after episode 143/104; Viz also ceased its home video release of the series after volume 11. On July 22, 2010, an interview with Anime News Network and Mark Kirk, senior vice-president of digital media for 4Kids Entertainment, revealed that 4Kids acquired One Piece as part of a package deal with other anime, and that the company did not screen the series before licensing it. However, once 4Kids realized One Piece was not appropriate for their intended demographic, the company decided to edit it into a more child-oriented series until they had an opportunity to legally drop the license. Kirk said the experience of producing One Piece "ruined the company's reputation". Since then, 4Kids established a stricter set of guidelines, checks, and balances to determine which anime the company acquires.
On April 13, 2007, Funimation (later Crunchyroll, LLC) licensed the series and started production on an English-language release of One Piece which also included re-dubbing the episodes previously dubbed by 4Kids. In an interview with voice actor Christopher Sabat, he stated that Funimation had been interested in acquiring One Piece from the very beginning, and produced a "test episode," in which Sabat portrayed the character of Helmeppo and Eric Vale played the part of the main character, Monkey D. Luffy. (They would later go on to provide the English voices for Roronoa Zoro and Sanji, respectively.) After resuming production of the renewed English dub, which featured less censorship because of fewer restrictions on cable programming, Funimation released its first uncut, bilingual DVD box set containing 13 episodes on May 27, 2008, similarly sized sets followed with fourteen sets released. The Funimation dubbed episodes premiered on Cartoon Network on September 29, 2007 and aired until its removal on March 22, 2008. On October 28, 2011, Funimation posted a press release on their official website confirming the acquisition of episodes 206–263, and the aspect ratio, beginning with episode 207, would be changed to the 16:9 widescreen format. On May 18, 2013, the uncut series began airing on Adult Swim's revived Toonami late-night programming block skipping ahead to episode 207 onward. One Piece was removed from the Toonami block after March 18, 2017. The series returned to Toonami, skipping ahead to episode 517, on January 22, 2022.
In May 2009, Funimation, Toei Animation, Shueisha, and Fuji Television announced they would simulcast stream the series within an hour of the weekly Japanese broadcast at no charge. Originally scheduled to begin on May 30, 2009, with episode 403, a lack of security resulted in a leak of the episode, and Funimation delayed the offer until episode 415 on August 29, 2009.
On February 12, 2013, it was announced that Manga Entertainment would start releasing the Funimation dub of One Piece in the United Kingdom in a DVD box set format. Crunchyroll began simulcasting the series on November 2, 2013, for the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. Crunchyroll later expanded access to the United Kingdom and Ireland, as well as a majority of European territories, on February 22, 2020. In April 2020, Netflix officially announced that they would be streaming One Piece starting on June 12 of the same year, for the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, using the "Special Edition" print. Netflix announced that they would stream the Egghead story arc starting on January 13, 2024.
Films
A total of 15 animated theatrical films based on the One Piece series have been released in Japan. The films are typically released in March in accordance with the spring vacation of Japanese schools. The films feature self-contained, completely original plots, or retellings of story arcs with animation of a higher quality than what the weekly anime allows. The first three films were typically double features paired up with other anime films, and were thus usually an hour or less in length. Funimation (now Crunchyroll, LLC) licensed the eighth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth films for release in North America, and these films have received in-house dubs by the company.
No. Title Director Writer Release date Runtime 1 One Piece: The Movie Junji Shimizu Michiru Shimada March 4, 2000 51 minutes 2 Clockwork Island Adventure March 3, 2001 55 minutes 3 Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals March 2, 2002 56 minutes 4 Dead End Adventure Konosuke Uda Yoshiyuki Suga March 1, 2003 1 hr 35 min 5 The Cursed Holy Sword Kazuhisa Takenouchi March 6, 2004 1 hr 35 min 6 Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island Mamoru Hosoda Masahiro Itō March 5, 2005 1 hr 32 min 7 Giant Mecha Soldier of Karakuri Castle Kōnosuke Uda March 4, 2006 1 hr 35 min 8 The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta Takahiro Imamura Hirohiko Kamisaka March 3, 2007 1 hr 30 min 9 Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Cherry Blossom Junji Shimizu March 1, 2008 1 hr 53 min 10 One Piece Film: Strong World Munehisa Sakai December 12, 2009 1 hr 53 min 11 Straw Hat Chase Hiroyuki Satō Yasuyuki Tsutsumi March 19, 2011 30 minutes 12 One Piece Film: Z Tatsuya Nagamine Osamu Suzuki December 15, 2012 1 hr 47 min 13 One Piece Film: Gold Hiroaki Miyamoto Tsutomu Kuroiwa July 23, 2016 2 hours 14 One Piece: Stampede Takashi Otsuka Atsuhiro Tomioka,Takashi Otsuka August 9, 2019 1 hr 41 min 15 One Piece Film: Red Gorō Taniguchi Tsutomu Kuroiwa August 6, 2022 1 hr 55 min 16 One Piece Film: God Valley TBA TBA Q3 2027 TBA 17 One Piece Film: BAAD TBA TBA 2029 TBA
Television specials
The One Piece franchise has spawned 13 television specials that aired on Fuji Television. Of these specials, the first four, as well as the sixth, eighth, ninth, and eleventh are original stories created by the anime staff with the exception of the fifth, seventh, tenth, twelfth, and thirteenth specials, which are alternate re-tellings of certain story arcs.
No. Title Director Airdate Runtime Ref(s) 1 One Piece TV Special: Adventure in the Ocean's Navel Yukio Kaizawa December 20, 2000 50 minutes 2 One Piece: Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, Huge Dream Munehisa Sakai April 6, 2003 46 minutes 3 "One Piece: Protect! The Last Great Stage" Junji Shimizu December 14, 2003 46 minutes 4 "One Piece: End-of-Year Special Plan! Chief Straw Hat Luffy's Detective Story" N/A December 18, 2005 42 minutes 5 "Episode of Nami: Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends" Katsumi Tokoro August 25, 2012 1 hr 46 min 6 "Episode of Luffy: Adventure on Hand Island" Hiroyuki Morita, Mitsuru Hongo December 15, 2012 1 hr 42 min 7 "Episode of Merry: The Tale of One More Friend" Katsumi Tokoro August 24, 2013 1 hr 46 min 8 "3D2Y" Naoyuki Itou August 30, 2014 1 hr 47 min 9 "Episode of Sabo: The Three Brothers' Bond – The Miraculous Reunion and the Inherited Will" Gou Koga August 22, 2015 1 hr 46 min 10 "One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia" Kōnosuke Uda December 19, 2015 1 hr 46 min 11 "One Piece: Heart of Gold" Tatsuya Nagamine July 23, 2016 1 hr 44 min 12 "One Piece: Episode of East Blue: Luffy and His 4 Friends' Great Adventure" Takashi Otsuka August 26, 2017 1 hr 46 min 13 "One Piece: Episode of Skypiea" Tetsuya Endo August 25, 2018 2 hr 10 min
OVAs No. Title Length Airdate Note Ref(s) 1 "Romance Dawn Story" 33 minutes September 21, 2008 Extra episode 2 "Strong World: Episode 0" 18 minutes December 12, 2009 Animated version of Chapter 0 and prequel to One Piece Film: Strong World 3 "Glorious Island" Part 1 5 minutes December 23, 2012 Prequel to One Piece Film: Z 4 "Glorious Island" Part 2 5 minutes December 30, 2012 5 "One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0" 10 minutes July 2, 2016 Prequel to One Piece Film: Gold 6 "Romance Dawn" October 20, 2019 Episode 907 of the series, created in celebration of the series' 20th anniversary
Shorts No. Title Release date Length 1 Jango's Dance Carnival March 3, 2001 5 minutes and 30 seconds 2 Dream Soccer King March 2, 2002 5 minutes and 30 seconds 3 One Piece: The Adventure in Grand Line July 6, 2002 20 minutes 4 Take Aim! The Pirate Baseball King March 6, 2004 5 minutes and 30 seconds 5 One Piece 3D! Trap Coaster December 1, 2011 12 minutes 6 The Great Treasure of Tongari Island April 21, 2018 11 minutes 7 Luffy, Law January 19, 2025 5 minutes
Music
Music soundtracks have been released that are based on songs that premiered in the series. Kohei Tanaka and Shiro Hamaguchi composed the score for One Piece. Various theme songs and character songs were released.