One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Ganzack

Nowadays, One Piece is everywhere, anywhere, millions of fans around the world, and is for sure, a cultural phenomenon in Japan that has influenced so many other parts of the media. And it's been over 20 years as of now, and it's still going strong if not stronger than ever.
But let's go back in time, back, back... back, before the story had an Anime adaptation. Part of a tour of short animations, a certain piece of animation made it an entry under the name “One Piece: Taose! Kaizoku Ganzack”, and I'm sure that even then, a lot of people ended up sleeping on its true ... potential to flourish, and look at it now. Brighter than ever.

Ok, let's get it out of the way, the animation, for something from the 90s, you can easily get a fuzzy picture on what it would look like on your head, that's probably why I was surprised the most, of course, not because of the out-of-nowhere insane high resolution of the time (and it had none of that), but mainly because of the satisfactory fluid animation that spans almost the entirety of the OVA continuously, something even early Toei One Piece never scaled up to.

The main cast, composed of Luffy, Zoro, and Nami, making it the story fit somewhere in between of Orange Town and Syrup Village arcs, Nami is as betraying as ever, Luffy just as goofy and glutton as they come, and Zoro as infamous and widely recognizable as he's always been. The trio got themselves involved into saving an island that was overrun by pirates, and to be honest, it was as generic of a setup as the classic One Piece we're grown to love.
Dock into an island or be forced to land on it, make a move on the villain, get captured, escape death, learn about the story of the island, head back for a second round, beat the bad guy, set to sea for more information. Grindy but effective.

As I was waiting for One Piece episode 884 to download (slow internet), it was a great deal of time for until then, I'm sure it's going to be weird shifting between a pre-One Piece adventure to the intense events of the Levely arc, but for what it is, it sure made for a good watch.

Overall score: (6.8/10)

I mean, it's fine?

This is from a different studio and has different voice actors.
But it's also only 28 minutes.

So, for someone who wants to watch through One Piece with all the specials, movies and the like, it's not that hard to get through.

It is also very 90s.
The art style is so 90s anime, unlike One Piece the series. Considering the series is right at the end of that era of animation.
This art style has the 90s anime big eyes, Luffy sounds a little off from his normal voice actress. Zoro too.
... It's just a weird but okay experience.

Essentially, it's to try and get people to watch One Piece.

There's nothing ground breaking or anything.
But if you are currently going through the completionist route, it's not that graining to listen to or watch.

This is a very short and cute story, i really like the art style and animation, its a bit different than the normal One Piece series.
This actually came out before the anime was airing.
This is set before we meet Usopp, and i advise you to watch this, before you watch the Syrup village arc.
You should not skip this, as it is pretty good, however don't expect it to blow your mind.
There is no character development in this story, we also don't meet any new characters that are important in the future, so if you are a sucker for those kinds of ... things, keep watching the anime.