One-Shot Manga 'Romance Dawn' Gets Another Anime Adaptation

by tsubasalover
Mar 29, 2019 8:04 PM | 13 Comments

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the One Piece TV anime broadcast, the franchise's official website announced on Saturday that the Romance Dawn one-shot manga, which is considered to be the origin of the One Piece franchise, will get an anime adaptation to broadcast on the anime's birthday, October 20.

Romance Dawn was released by Eiichiro Oda in two versions in 1996: one was in WJ Summer Special magazine which was later included in One Piece Red. Another was in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine, which was later included as one of the short stories in the Wanted! collection. It describes a different Monkey D. Luffy from the One Piece franchise. The WJ Summer Special version previously received an OVA adaptation in 2008. The news described that it will be the first anime adaptation for the one-shot, which refers to the Weekly Shounen Jump magazine version.

Source: One Piece.com

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I'm sure Toei won't hesitate to botch this special as well.

Mar 30, 2019 7:06 PM by joe_g7

Kababi said:
Nice. I hope some of the other one-shots from Wanted! like God's Gift for the Future and Monsters someday get short adaptations too.

Maybe they adapt Monsters too, as it's part of the series canon storyline. And only Romance Dawn doesn't fit the One Piece TV Specials timeslot.

Mar 30, 2019 3:16 PM by Tsurugi10

Will this one also be changed to fit the anime's timeline like the other one or will it be faithful to the original oneshot?

Mar 30, 2019 1:52 PM by juandmarco

There aint enougth words to describe how much im looking foward to this!

Mar 30, 2019 9:45 AM by Wolfheartom

A movie and an OVA , life is good

Mar 30, 2019 9:22 AM by FoxSenpaiYT

Silk version is my favorite one. It's nice we get another one

Mar 30, 2019 8:03 AM by Stardew

ShadowMonkey said:
wrong picture on the headline btw, that one is from a different Romance Dawn

You mean the thumbnail or the one used in the news? If thumbnail, I'm aware. I'm using it for now because there's no anime visual for the one announced today. If the one used in the news, it is used in the news in source article.

Mar 30, 2019 8:00 AM by tsubasalover

I'm super excited for this
wish they adapted all of Wanted, though

wrong picture on the headline btw, that one is from a different Romance Dawn

Mar 30, 2019 5:10 AM by ShadowMonkey

Nice. I hope some of the other one-shots from Wanted! like God's Gift for the Future and Monsters someday get short adaptations too.

Mar 30, 2019 3:56 AM by Kababi

I knew I recognized that name from One Piece.

Mar 30, 2019 3:32 AM by Ochimusha

Lol even the one-shot gets an anime adaption.

Mar 30, 2019 3:29 AM by EndlessMaria

I hope this anime brings light to this obscure one-shot manga.

Mar 29, 2019 9:17 PM by Raycee

Wow, congratulations to Oda-san, everyone involved in the manga and anime, as well as the One Piece fandom.

(It's weird that One Piece started on my birthday though. lol)

Mar 29, 2019 8:37 PM by Daisuki