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Oct 19, 2019 6:05 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Ok, So...
It's a special episode of ONE PIECE.
but there is no such Treasure as One piece, but instead, becoming a real man of the sea which is called Main Piece.
(Nami) Ann is just like... Well you cannot not see nami there...
Anyway, the opponent pirate this episode was pretty strong, but way too crowd lol
There is NO SHANKS, and GARP IS A PIRATE HAHAHA
I would say it's a really nice story to watch(:
Oct 19, 2019 7:53 PM
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of One Piece being an anime.

Nice to see the origins of One Piece.
Oct 19, 2019 8:06 PM
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Did you ever ask what if Garp was a pirate? Are you satisfied now? Honestly, I expected this to be a special apart from the TV show. There were some jokes, but otherwise, it is very insignificant.

Oct 19, 2019 8:09 PM
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Usopp8000 said:
THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Ok, So...
It's a special episode of ONE PIECE.
but there is no such Treasure as One piece, but instead, becoming a real man of the sea which is called Main Piece.
(Nami) Ann is just like... Well you cannot not see nami there...
Anyway, the opponent pirate this episode was pretty strong, but way too crowd lol
There is NO SHANKS, and GARP IS A PIRATE HAHAHA
I would say it's a really nice story to watch(:


At first, I have read her name as Nami and later saw, that it was just a word "name" and she is actually Ann.
Oct 19, 2019 8:10 PM
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Was a little weird seeing Garp as a pirate.
Oct 19, 2019 8:16 PM
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I was expecting it to be a separate episode from the anime, but I don't mind it. The animation was amazing and it finally brought life to the prototype of One Piece, a fantastic way to celebrate a proper anniversary. Sure, the plot is basically villain of the week sorta like the first arcs in the East Blue saga back but is fascinating to see how the author was envisioning some elements that would later be part of Nobel worthy manga.

I'm so glad that this celebratory episode turned out this way, thanks Toei!

Oct 19, 2019 8:36 PM
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Just imagine the same pacing in the Canon anime T_T
They adapted 44 pages in a single episode xD
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Oct 19, 2019 8:41 PM
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How can you get shot and have a huge bullet hole at the back but not at the front, even that bullet hole is gone later on! Mediocre at its best.

More importantly they just changed Nami's colors on that girl, the fuck. Garp as a pirate actually fitted him, and I hear Shanks is an admiral on that universe.

The f is a peace main?
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Oct 19, 2019 9:04 PM
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Happy 20th anniversary to one piece anime.

Lol we got blue nami and a weird bird in the special. Thou this was a pretty nice short story. Luffy will be Luffy no matter where and lmao pirate Garp.

Anyway back to wano next week.
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Oct 19, 2019 9:38 PM

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nazsa said:
Just imagine the same pacing in the Canon anime T_T
They adapted 44 pages in a single episode xD


That would have been a 800 episode saga in the real thing.
Oct 19, 2019 9:52 PM

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One Piece greatness,Happy 20th anniversary to the greatest Anime of all time.
Oct 19, 2019 9:53 PM

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The art and animation were gorgeous! If only we had that quality for every episode.

It's very interesting to see what could've been. Anne, a mix of Nami and Vivi and Pirate Garp with the Straw Hat.
Oct 19, 2019 10:02 PM

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asei said:
Did you ever ask what if Garp was a pirate? Are you satisfied now? Honestly, I expected this to be a special apart from the TV show. There were some jokes, but otherwise, it is very insignificant.


What do you mean "insignificant"? What did you expect? This is what Oda created before the One Piece we know today. It's fascinating to see. It's everything but insignificant.
Oct 19, 2019 11:36 PM

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I low key enjoyed this
It's an interesting alternate universe ngl. The artstyle was pretty fresh too ^^ For once it didn't feel like everything is unnecessarily stretched

Am I the only one that thinks the opponent's ability is way too strong? It's like some huge range psychokinesis or sth

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Oct 20, 2019 12:34 AM

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a new twist of one piece..where luffy just wants to be a peace main or whatever...which is technically what he is now but in a good way lol
Oct 20, 2019 12:37 AM
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Are you telling me that there is a multiverse? Hahaha. Anne seemed like a combination between Nami and Vivi. The clown-faced guy had Brook's voice. Balloon was a rare bird and not a whale. There were two types of pirates, etc. Many differences compared to the current story, except for the akuma no mi, the straw hat and Luffy's desire to become a pirate.
Garp, a pirate? What would the One Piece Garp say, hahaha.
This is what could have been what we see today, I wonder if it would have been as famous as the current story. Anyway, Oda, without a doubt, is a genius and created one of the greatest and most fascinating stories I've seen, and I'm watching šŸ˜.
Oct 20, 2019 2:01 AM

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Not gonna lie, I kinda wish he kept the "Morganeers vs Piece-mains" gimmick.
There were some direction issues regarding the delivery of some lines and the fact that they reuse the same main voice actors for every small character, although I can forgive Anne since she is basically proto-Nami, but overall they did this justice. The animation especially looked very good, but I don't feel like this is 'special episode' worthy as much as I think the whole series should've looked like this.
4/5 but I'm setting it back to dropped because I got sick of the main episodes.
Oct 20, 2019 2:28 AM

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Interesting twist on an alternate reality! But back to the main thing next week!
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Oct 20, 2019 2:55 AM

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Nice to see the original Romance dawn story getting animated

Interesting to see how things could have been different if it didn't get changed, even Luffy's personality felt a little bit different

Oct 20, 2019 3:59 AM
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of One Piece being an anime.

Nice to see the origins of One Piece.
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Nice to see the original Romance dawn story getting animated

Interesting to see how things could have been different if it didn't get changed, even Luffy's personality felt a little bit different
This was Romance Dawn V2. V1 was much closer to the original with Shanks as a pirate and Luffy inspired by him. The canon Romance Dawn is V3. I think the reason they chose V2 over V1 is because V1 is too close to the original.
Oct 20, 2019 6:19 AM

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That was very enjoyable and I dunno why they wouldn't expand on it. Not realistic at all, but a man can dream.

Also would be cool to see Wanted! animated.

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Oct 20, 2019 6:34 AM

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I enjoyed this episode more than any Wano episode released so far. I would actually watch it if this was a mini series lol
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Oct 20, 2019 7:05 AM

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Garp as Shanks works surprisingly well, though his crew wasn't quite as fleshed out. That short stoy of Luffy though would fit quite nicely into the "real" One Piece as wel.
Oct 20, 2019 8:15 AM
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Happy 20th Anniversary :)
Oct 20, 2019 8:23 AM

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I love this alternate universe episode
Oct 20, 2019 9:15 AM

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Well that was interesting, Garp as a pirate.
Oct 20, 2019 12:21 PM
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Garp as a pirate...ahhahahha Garp as a pirate. The animation was amazing.
Oct 20, 2019 12:56 PM
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I really wouldn’t have minded them fleshing this out more into 2-3 weeks, although I realize the source material is limited. Fun to see Garp as a pirate!
Oct 20, 2019 3:02 PM

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Hard to see this version of "Nami" with blue hair color. That's still very odd and strange to me. I find it cool that they used the same VA. It fits very well, though she doesn't have equal personality as Nami. Lovely animation. The animation was really great. I would love another ep. of this were these parallel world meets in a special ep. That would really be great to watch. Ofc, Oda is the one who writes the story for that special ep.


Hard to imagine Garp saying anything like that: "It's good to be a pirate". LOL. If this version of Garp and the one in the main plot had met this dude would have gotten a real punch. Hahaha

Cool ep. I am glad Oda stayed with the one who have been published for 20 years, more than 900 ch. + ep. Yeah, One Piece happy 20th anniversary! May you stay in our life before we die. LOL, hahaha
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Oct 21, 2019 12:32 AM
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Not gonna lie, I expected it to be a OVA apart from the show.
Oct 21, 2019 11:19 AM

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Didn't think they would anime the one shot (start of one piece), cause no other series ever animate their one shot/ original start. (most times not even ova)

This was what made One Piece popular and the start of it all.

Also, a note, the original didn't have the "Gum-Gum" call every time Luffy punch or kicks. It was a pure fighting, no delay. They only added in the call cause apparently little kids loved it.
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Oct 21, 2019 5:38 PM

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It was a fun alternate take on One Piece, although how it turned out in the end was better so I'm glad this wasn't the path One Piece ultimately went down.

I wish they had animated some of the side stuff from the manga like how Wapol got a new kingdom and the CP-9 in the aftermath of Ennies Lobby. It's not like they couldn't have used the extra weeks that would have given them.
Oct 21, 2019 8:04 PM

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That was a nice refeshing episode. Interesting to see the roots of the One Piece we know today. A lot of things changed to the original like Garp being a pirate and taking the Shanks role which was pretty cool. Even if Ann is another character I also only saw and heard Nami in her :D

It's weird not hearing Luffy say anything when he attacks. You get so used to it.

Poor Brook..ehm I mean Spiel got totally rekt. Reminded me how Alvida went flying. Animation was cool I definitely liked it.

Happy 20th Anniversary :)

Oct 22, 2019 12:22 PM

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Garp is actually a pirate lol and Devil fruits are instead called Mystic fruits
Oct 22, 2019 8:38 PM

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Garp - "It's Good To Be A Pirate" LOOOL

"The Art was nice"

Remember marineford when he was sitting next to Ace and he was crying telling him why didn't you live the life I told you to live. yoo man.
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Oct 23, 2019 1:18 AM

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What an interesting origin.

But I am glad it changed along the way, the goal of being a peace-main just seems lacklustre compared to his current dreams.

That said I am not sure if I would have preferred the lack of the gummi gummi attack calls.
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Oct 23, 2019 12:45 PM
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This episode gives me the goosebump. The rough sketch for One Piece written more than 10 years ago is already this good! The transformation to the actual One Piece later is quite significant as well. Sasuga Oda sensei!!!
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Oct 26, 2019 7:50 PM

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So a filler ep. The most memorable : grandfather of Luffy being a pirate...that was so funny even for an a spciall edition.
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Oct 26, 2019 10:38 PM
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Garp as a pirate...ahhahahha Garp as a pirate. The animation was amazing.


Animation was meh ( for me ), The fights was still images ( from Luffy against the fodders) I prefer the old Marineford animation
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a Ok ep, although I seen it's oneshot counterpart I'm not a fan of that new ( Animation) and those fights from Luffy was badly done in Anime , 20 years special for a lazy work done.. Lame move Toei , Give me Marineford animation any day
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So a filler ep. The most memorable : grandfather of Luffy being a pirate...that was so funny even for an a spciall edition.


it's from a oneshot not a filler though :P but yep I guess it can be counted as filler since they put that episode between the main series
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Ant161718 said:
So a filler ep. The most memorable : grandfather of Luffy being a pirate...that was so funny even for an a spciall edition.


it's from a oneshot not a filler though :P but yep I guess it can be counted as filler since they put that episode between the main series
Thanks for the info. I didn't know that because I'm a little late with the manga. Nevertheless, was interesant.
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Nov 5, 2019 8:39 PM

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An especial episode about an alternate beginning for the whole story, truly irrelevant, I couldn’t care less.
Nov 6, 2019 11:01 AM

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This is how we want the episodes to be like, this is when pacing is great and no bullshit time wasted.
Nov 8, 2019 7:29 PM

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Garp was a pirate! Lol. But what's the purpose of this special again?
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It was strange to see a One Piece episode with good pacing. It's been
so long. That was a interesting episode. Not sure what to think about Garp
being a pirate in this alternate universe.
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That was kinda weird but ok.
Jan 29, 2020 4:12 PM
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This was fun to watch. Garp, a man who kept encouraging his grandson to be a peace-loving marine instead of a vicious pirate, is preaching about how good it feels to be a pirate. Well, this is sort of an alternate scenario where it answers the question of "What will it be like if Garp was a pirate instead of a marine"/ I am sure this inquiry ran through the heads of so many people.

Anne was interesting too. Having a bit of both Nami and Vivi's character traits and looks. More so with the latter than the former. Just like Vivi, Anne also had a pet animal as a best friend. I can see how Anne's character inspired the creation of both Nami and Vivi.

Someone pointed this out: "If I had a son, I would name him Ace. The daughter, Anne" Rouge D Portuguese
Is it possible we were watching the pirate king's daughter and the sister of Ace in this special? Or is this a mere coincidence?

Mar 20, 2020 11:44 PM
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So this was the way One Piece was originally going to be like. Interesting to see how the One Piece we currently watch is similar to the origins but also quite different at the same time.
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I like how they used the original crew's VA's for some of the characters in this special.
So this was a different way One Piece could've gone.
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