The Original One Piece Anime

Before Toei's adaptation, another studio took a stab at an animated One Piece for the 1998 Jump Super Anime Tour. Although it has been mostly forgotten with time, it gives an interesting look into how One Piece could've looked if it was adapted by another team.
So join me today as we dive into this niche OVA - One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!
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[@forgottenrelics1197]

Extra tidbit - Zoro's voice actor for this movie (Wataru Takagi) would return to the series later to voice Bellamy. Ganzacks voice actor (Norio Wakamoto) voiced Cell in Dragon Ball Z Ikuya Sawaki (Medaka's father and narrator) would play Admiral Fujitora. And Takkou Ishimori, the VA for Skid (old dude smoking the pipe) would go on to voice Sengoku. Also merch shill👕 Sponsor: Fandomion ►Shop One Piece: www.fandomion.com/sale/best-anime-merch-one-piece_63s_6t.html?track=8341& ►Shop Anime Merch: bit.ly/ForgottenRelicsAnimeMerch ►Shop Meme Merch: bit.ly/ForgottenRelicsMemeMerch ►Extra 10% Off Discount Code: Relics

[@julve7937]

Woah

[@Hekai]

Putting some Dead Leaves in there, i see you're a true OG

[@SONGOKU02]

From the girl, i had to think a little bit more on corbi (The pink haired boy) In his early seeing, he is kinda the same. XD Just more coward. There is nami in the girl too.

[@valtube6728]

So in jaya and dressrosa luffy es actually punching zoro? Lmao

[@that_one_reply8805]

I CAN'T UNSEE THE EARS OMG WTF HELP I WON'T SLEEP AT NIGHT ANYMORE

[@mechajay3358]

If you ever want to see One Piece in that classic retro anime style, this is the OVA to watch.

[@rhinuu045]

i fucking love it sm

[@Silver77cyn]

It looks better.

[@wa-bu3ke]

Some of the old One Piece movies too

[@Coffeebomb22791]

Reminds me of yugioh and alot of other anime that was different starting out hellsome cartoons were too

[@Rustboy10]

It looks like god damn Pokémon

[@Beata_Dre]

The actual forgotten relic

[@mechajay3358]

He's really living up to the name.

[@ibearlymadeit6237]

doooooood... nice

[@Project_415]

This is the actual One Piece itself

[@happicheshirecat]

This is just the one piece movie it’s not actually the original one piece

[@mr.ballree6287]

​@Project_415 yep the one peice is a tape roll with this on it

[@mark5222]

I don't know if it's only nostalgia but there's always this "love" that you can feel while watching old anime.

[@shiny_selenium6448]

Yes I absolutely love watching the older episodes of One Piece and a lot of other animes. The animation back then was so simple and heartwarming to look at. I don’t know what it is, but it just is so nice. I do think nostalgia is tied to it though. Watching older shows always remind me of my childhood and simpler times and I love it so much even if it’s a show I just started watching a couple months ago.

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

@@shiny_selenium6448 I don't really think it's nostalgia. Anime had much more vibrant colors and distinct shades during the peak of the cel era that made the animation really pop.

[@annabellthedoll9953]

Truly.

[@istoleyunomilesbigmac]

true i didn‘t grew up in that time period but i watched the old dragon ball movies and they had a certian charm

[@Golemoid]

Classic animation was drawn and colored by hand, so of course it would look better. Today everything is done digitally, which looks soulless most of the time.

[@hoppinggnomethe4154]

Lots of people don't realize how superior many of the 90s anime's animations were

[@JasonOwensYT]

​@@rifter4478Nope. No nostalgia here it's just better. But people like you always have to claim something is nostalgia instead of just admitting some older things were superior.

[@JasonOwensYT]

@@rifter4478 No one said they were. He clearly said MANY.

[@snurky3478]

@@rifter4478most new style animation is so boring

[@Tommydiistar]

@@rifter4478go watch kite and come back and said it’s only nostalgia

[@amuroray9115]

@@JasonOwensYT you’re all biased as hell and hypocrites. It’s called opinions. Move past it is

[@CogNoman]

Whoa.. that animation is so nice. Toei is getting better lately, but it would have been nice if the One Piece anime could have had this level of animation quality from the beginning.

[@privatefeetpics7415]

Toei released it weekly, and this was a movie. Unless you want each episode to take 6 months to come out you're better off sticking with the original

[@CruiserDynasty]

Ya i wish we had anime from 2043 now but sadly thats not how time works.

[@Da-choppa]

Mate this is a movie, one piece has weekly releases, I think you can figure out why the animation is a bit better than old one piece

[@carlosaugusto9821]

@@privatefeetpics7415 Ok but OP isnt an anime of excellent standards compared to other weekly late 90s animes.

[@Midas9T9]

@@carlosaugusto9821 I still liked the old style tho. It was something totally different. This style in the ova looks like the generic 90s style animation. I also loved how one piece's animation changed gradually and is where it's now

[@FrankEShaw05]

I love the character animation in this, its very rare to see these characters being so expressive with their movements unless they’re fighting so seeing this is a real treat

[@misterboxhead3045]

What about wall-e?

[@DeenHoward]

Forever wishing for a proper blu ray remaster of this OVA. This is a piece of animation that certainly deserves it.

[@robo-nidai4236]

I do love how they managed to get the director of this OVA to return to direct the One Piece movie Red. In a poetic way, it feels like a moment straight out of One Piece.

[@jacopom.7477]

Ok but one piece red is trash

[@NikaeArts]

@@jacopom.7477 boring opinion 🥱

[@NeyamStar]

Cool

[@ardasoydan9394]

@@jacopom.7477 animation wasnt trash tho

[@00repz00]

Bro took the "forgotten relics" name seriously But honestly this is why I love your channel. Keep it up king 👑

[@christhechilled]

I love this 90s style of One Piece. So nostalgic!

[@Chris-bz2rf]

Well it's more of a sailor moon style, one piece is already in a 90s style

[@jase276]

Sailor Moon art style just makes everything better it seems

[@LUFFYG10]

Where Can I Download?

[@dyl_pickle16-mta48]

This was actually the first animated adaptation of One Piece that I ever watched. I’ve been reading the manga recently, and I saw Oda’s sketches for the OVA’s characters within the pages.

[@Sputterbugz]

what's wild is most fans don't know this ova exists. it's very hard to find any old movies and OVAs in the west, especially for me when I was 16 in 2010 trying to find anything one piece since it wasn't ok crunchyeill yet

[@metal6948]

It looks so much better than the older episodes of the show. It’s kind of disappointing that we didn’t get this level of detail and such slick animation in the early episodes of the show

[@julioalvarado7548]

I actually would love to see the whole show get kind of a remake eventually, with no filler and a worthy animation, like an oficial one pace but better.

[@annabellthedoll9953]

Truly.

[@zhenyucai8688]

It would've been impossible lol. The OVA took a long time to make and that level of quality, would not be possible for a weekly show.

[@Liqhtmare]

@@julioalvarado7548 there are the remastered movies of the first 3 sagas

[@celiskurtis]

@@julioalvarado7548Hello hello hello 🎉🎉. Guess whose wish is coming true?

[@kenm.a.d.7196]

The way they animated Luffy is so appealing my goodness!

[@TheJPooka777]

I really like the style older one piece had, It really made it stand out and solidify itself from other anime at the time. I remember having a cel from the ova but sadly lost it during a move in

[@forgottenrelics1197]

Mannn thats a pity, I've seen hardly any cels from this ova online. Do you remember what scene it was from?

[@TheJPooka777]

​@@forgottenrelics1197 Yeah, It was a cel of luffy from the first and ganzack encounter. Around the 11:14 minute mark of the film

[@Sputterbugz]

I prefer the anime bc it resembles the manga

[@Xxblade17]

Damn

[@Crystal_Vibes33]

@@Sputterbugz I forgot everyone I was going to do it looks nice 😊 on it but it’s just like

[@slambro7923]

interesting to see how two different artists can depict an artstyle so different to eachother, yet both are equally faithful to the manga. V cool.

[@_MrLee]

Anime in the early 90s Late 80s will always look crisp and beautiful...

[@KremBotop]

So Hisashi Kagawa's involvement in the special's designs technically already gave One Piece a Toei connection thanks to his Sailor Moon background (he only did character design work in the 2nd and 3rd movies but did key animation and / or animation direction in all 5 seasons of the original series). Neat. He has shared lots of custom artworks based on the series he worked on in social media and even released an artbook. He's definitely very skilled, probably SM's best anime artist too. Also, 98' surely had to be an odd and rough time for Toei when it comes to their blockbuster shows; as Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon have both just ended the year before while One Piece and Digimon were still a year away. Because of this I don't just wonder how things could've turned out if OP stayed at IG, but also if Toei's 98' Yu-Gi-Oh series did succeed and the series didn't migrate to NAS / Gallop shortly afterwards. A lot of things might've been different.

[@forgottenrelics1197]

It also gave it that Studio Cockpit connection! Their involvement was pretty small in comparison to previous Toei titles like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z but you did have one of their best, Keisuke Masunaga come in for a couple of movies (who's oddly absent here?). The biggest title Toei would've had tho during 98 would've been their Dr. Slump reboot, but that had pretty weak ratings. Interestingly there was a lot of staff overlap between those two series, Koizumi is probably one of the biggest ones doing character designs for the 99 Slump movie.

[@Crystal_Vibes33]

I have to you could get it but I’m just saying I don’t knowingness what I just need last 😮 😢

[@borsho9889]

The older animation looks insanely good. I never liked the actual being so colorful with weird propotions

[@JaseAnimates]

It's minor, but it's nice that the male characters also have light reflecting off their eyes sometimes, which I don't think happens in the series. It gives them way more life imo

[@AFrozenKitten]

Oh no, now I can't unsee the ears. I had never realized they sat too low on the characters heads until now!

[@aidanshowers8366]

It might just be me but Kagawa’s character designs kind of resembles dragon balls art during the namek saga. Also it’s pretty cool to see Yutaka Nakamura worked on one piece, like my other artistic inspirations sushio and Hiroyuki Imaishi.

[@oneiroagent]

12:47 Gear 5 foreshadowing damn

[@capitatecab6049]

Its pretty impressive how the designs look very different but the same with little details being changed, very similar to what the movie 6 did with the designs Really love these, how they did they’re own thing rather than following 1 to 1 what Oda did, its kinda like Mike Mignola wanted his animated movies to look different from the comic

[@pablocasas5906]

So weird seeing One Piece animated in cells, because OP was one of Toei's first shows colored digitally (the 90s Gegege no Kitaro was the first), it's obvious that they have a considerable budget for this OVA It's also interesting that this is one of Taniguchi's first works, I've only seen Infinite Ryvius and Code Geass, but I also heard good things about s-CRY-ed and Planetes

[@anonyme117delt5]

he also had doctor slump in 1997 and digimon and magical doreimi in 1999 but before the arrival of one piece infact it's not the only one piece media used celluloid there is also the first one piece movie which was released in march 2000 and before that the 1997 doctor slump movie was in celluloid

[@landmindssoul4636]

I love the colors

[@pushinpingu]

Wow I loved this video, I never knew this OVA existed, you got yourself a new sub.

[@forgottenrelics1197]

aye thanks :)

[@El_Mince]

I think I actually like Kagawa’s style better than Koizumi’s

[@xUnino2001]

Smoke weed everyday

[@ShadowDancer1000]

⁠@@xUnino2001 no no he’s right One piece’s designs a iconic yes but I think kagawa’s design looks excellent and grew on me instantly

[@joethegecko5100]

@@ShadowDancer1000 if i see weed i got to light it

[@qwrzt9]

for me is better he's style kzbin.info/www/bejne/faCre2SpmcaMeac

[@ShadowDancer1000]

@@joethegecko5100 oh come on guys have none of you ever seen og Trigun or og Hunter X Hunter?

[@jamsessions7]

It's giving me Yu Yu Hakusho/Hunter X Hunter(Old) vibes which is amazing. What could've been if they continued with that kind of style.

[@espion7]

I genuinely prefer this style more than the current one like its genuinely prettier to me

[@anime_world6684]

Pretty yeahhh

[@dyl_pickle16-mta48]

I agree.

[@NeyamStar]

90s animation is better

[@crestofhonor2349]

Also I'd love to see you do more stuff on One Piece. They've had a lot of very notable animation during the Wano arc. Some episodes are escpecially well directed as well as a ton of spectacular animation

[@forgottenrelics1197]

I haven't started the OP anime so I have no clue as to when I'll ever get to Wano... But if it's something as important as the appearance of Gear 5 I might cover it, but that depends on what other projects I'll be working on at that time.

[@stalhein62]

There is a rumour online, and I unfortunately can't source this as anything more than a rumour, that Toei specifically hired some animators from Warner Bros to help with Gear 5.

[@UnofficialStudios]

@@stalhein62 those animators are not specifically from Warner bros, just some foreign animators that have worked with Warner bros on some of their previous projects. I mean this isn’t the first time we’ve had foreign animators work on the one piece anime

[@crestofhonor2349]

@@UnofficialStudios One of my favorite ones is Vincent Chansard. That man is incredible

[@UnofficialStudios]

@@crestofhonor2349 yea the fact that he’s been able to consistently put out top tier work on the anime is incredible enough already, now he’s officially joined the team on his own accord and shifting his focus on the anime, which is really exciting

[@hellodigitalworld8224]

Pre time skip one piece was something else 😢 and that ova should be rescanned and released

[@braydnware6496]

I didn’t know there was an original one piece anime in 1998, glad to experience it. :)

[@michaeldaniels8021]

What's always odd to me is that with productions like these it seems like everybody knew just how big One Piece was going to be before it hit the Arlong arc, which most people agree is when it cemented itself as the next great manga series. What information were insiders privy to that they knew to take gambles with such a new series? The more i look into early One Piece the more i find that people in the industry "just knew" it was going to be a multi billion success even before it hit its stride

[@NeyamStar]

Sometimes you just know Which is weird

[@atlas1924]

I love toei and how they did one piece but this looks insane. the pacing and animation look much better along with a sharper artstyle. It is still one piece but I kinda wish this studio did it lol

[@Joyoboyogomu]

wow that looks so cool. i would love to see some fanart in this style of more recent designs in one piece

[@waitisthatcobalt]

13:09 signature Yutaka Nakamura, and damn, this was before Soul Eater. he started to develop that line art flashy style. nice. good vid man! Didn't realize there was all that layering of elements as well. wow. what an animator.

[@alexcartee6302]

The OVA animation looks really good. I would watch some one piece in this style

[@kab1r]

Didn’t realise how often these animators would work with each other on various projects

[@applepretz5368]

Japanese animation is very beautiful. Respect to the hard working animators in Japan!

[@cptwigglefuffle]

Oh yeah i saw this OVA during the one piece anniversary stream actually wity my best friend. He's a huge one piece fan so this was a cool piece of history

[@Jimzy93]

Wow, never knew about this one, the animation looks incredible!

[@jimmy97]

The best One Piece has ever looked.

[@rubberman3226]

Whole cake>>>>

[@benakinnusi2518]

@@rubberman3226 im literally on whole cake rn episode 839 can confirm the animation is c r i s p.

[@newp0rt]

@@rubberman3226 i think wano will forever be best for me. sure its cliche, but not because it looks newer or "better". the thicc lines just make a whole world of difference to me. i LOVE the thick uneven lines they started using in wano. its similar to demon slayer. idk they just add a different feel to the show, it really tingles my brain.

[@rubberman3226]

@@newp0rt the thick lines and the animation is the only good thing from wano the characters look wack af robin aged backwards for some reason her head is rounder and her eyes are bigger zoros head also got squarer and his hair is shorter big mom also looks like some old woman instead of like a witch/monster from before

[@FrankEShaw05]

@@rubberman3226i swear they make robins eyes so big sometimes she looks like an alien. Its like they all just forgot what she is supposed to look like

[@dirtyoup4830]

o had no idea this even existed, so cool man, "forgotten relic" for a reason ahaha, great job

[@zoushuu]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention

[@zeemod1556]

I just decided to watch Film Red after watching this video and I had to pause the movie at about 55:32 when I noticed Ganzack made a cameo appearance (in character design only) at a random bar. Now I understand the connection ;) but also, I would have definitely NEVER remembered what he looked like without this video jogging my memory.

[@SurAuvers]

Oda did multiple versions of Romance Dawn the one shot of ONE piece and in two of them there is a Nami like character who hates pirates. In one she is closer to Nami in age and I believe her name was Syrup and the other she looks like Nami but as a little girl similar to the one in this movie. The story is likley taking parts from those one shots

[@forgottenrelics1197]

Ahhh interesting, it very likely that was the case

[@SurAuvers]

@@forgottenrelics1197 there are several movies and TV specials with kid who HATES PIRATES so as you watch the anime you'll see it a few times for anime original stories lol. There's also an anime adaptation of the version of Romance Dawn that has Syrup in it, I believe it was another Jump Festa movie.

[@MrTARDIS]

Massive coincidence; I started One Piece a few weeks ago and saw on a list to watch this movie after the Orange Town arc without knowing anything else about it. Then a few days later you drop this video about it!

[@caspervstheworld]

this is a great video. I always wondered if one piece took on another art style early on and never knew this existed. although I really love how one piece characters look overall, the OVA take I can see definitely being more appealing to a lot of people who are at first turned off by early one piece art style

[@diegovaldes1408]

3:29 I love Koizumi's designs so much lmao

[@Chainedetheprolol]

wow, old school shaded zoro is exactly what i love in animes

[@carloscauan7967]

Would be fun to also make videos like this for Black Clover and Land of the Lsutrous as well, given they also had mostly forgotten PVs with very different styles.

[@Cuurle]

🐐🍀

[@eriktharead8071]

Mid Clover

[@Aigle662frileux]

@@eriktharead8071 12 years old kid

[@royalfun1031]

Black covid

[@resoissocool]

that ring at 7:08 confused me for 17 minutes straight before i realized it was just the video

[@tylr2910]

i remember Oda talking about this and him lowk geeking out in a VERY early sbs iirc

[@ravenfal1496]

12:48 - I can't believe Gear 5 was spoiled 24 years before it showed up in the manga!

[@thomasffrench3639]

I wish more anime adaptations would change up their art styles when adapting. Keep it recognizable but also make the art style look better in animation. Sometimes manga art style just doesn’t look good in animation. It makes sense why they don’t, but I think a lot of series could benefit from it. This definitely shouldn’t be most as a lot of manga art styles translate well to animation.

[@ProjektTaku]

I understand, but I feel like changing one pieces artstyle is a no-go.

[@thomasffrench3639]

@@ProjektTaku it just doesn’t work in animation. It’s like specifically designed for a flat manga. This art style update works well in animation

[@ProjektTaku]

@@thomasffrench3639 tell that to wano.

[@thomasffrench3639]

@@ProjektTaku still think the same. Any art style can be well animated. I just think that changing it up can make it better. It makes sense for a weekly series to be faithful in art style, so its no big deal

[@jasonone8726]

When that does happen, manga puriests complain. 😂

[@thamashaamarasekara572]

Wished they continued this style.

[@boa9557]

No

[@kyler247]

its crazy how much soul the 1998 anime has vs what we got later

[@grugnotice7746]

Gotta say I like the character design and animation for this one a lot better than the main show.

[@fluffcake]

I’ve seen edits and art of One Piece in 90s anime form but seeing it as an actual thing is awesome

[@FamOfficial3]

1:23 why is sanjis ears so low it's near his mouth. bro can he hear him self eat loudly 😂😂

[@afatrat_7460]

I never realized how low the ears on Odas character were until you pointed it out. Now I cant unsee them without seeing their low ass ears.

[@bruchett4799]

Amazing explanations for animations! it was very elaborative

[@JasonOwensYT]

I like how the women look like women and dont all have Double Fs or whatever Toei does to make them look ridiculous.

[@thebleachbartender1312]

Thats not Toel. Thats Odas style. Their just making it Manga accurate.

[@toongamer2810]

5:26 Exactly how i found out about it, it's amazing

[@rainwaiv]

Thanks for the video but the ears tidbit is wild. I am never going to unsee that.

[@li-limandragon9287]

God I'd love to see Sanji and Usopp in this style too.

[@Gaming_Hub_UK]

Return of the king 👑

[@nikjovan4816]

Nice, a One piece video. I hope you can do a vid analizing some of the best animation from the Wano arc, like episode 982, 1015, 1033 or the recent 1061. There is also an incredible episode 1062 coming. Or maybe just do an overall overview of the difference between the drastic change between post-timeskip One Piece and Wano and the production behind them.

[@AndrewDLuffy]

The animation is incredible and so were the people behind it oh my god

[@bloodsteal]

Bro did a BlackPill analysis on their jaws LOL

[@Sinnohy]

I absolutely loved both the art style and animation! I wish it was interpreted to the one piece we have today. Overall very fun to watch 9/10 OVA, would definitely recommend to watch it after EP 8 (even if it isn't canon)!

[@Lilbint33]

Great video, I'm grateful for how respectful you are to both versions of this series even as a non-watcher, and it's always nice to hear someone who knows this level of depth about the production of anime

[@TheJoyStickPlayerGamesRule]

The old art is getting me. I want it

[@pastagod2219]

The way they did the story for this movie kinda reminds me of how the first three Dragon Ball movies are where it's like a retelling of an arc but with an original villain

[@rhiannonbamford8741]

Given that the manga was still on the Syrup Village arc when this was animated, the fact that Ganzack says he's close to being Pirate King is downright hilarious. My guy, you'd get atomised the moment you set foot outside East Blue.

[@vampi2232]

First time I ever heard someone mention Space Dandy IN MY LIFE, I love you man.

[@olyna]

Exceptional analysis. I never got into one piece because of the Animation and artistic choice post 2000, but I absolutely adore the 1998 style which I have never heard of before, with the fluid animation if they had kept it I would certainly have got into it. Thanks again for this excellent video.

[@Guapo54]

I want to tell you that the 90s style did not disappear in the early 2000s, just see anime like Inuyasha, GTO, Mon Colle Knights the years 1999,2000,2001,2002 are a mix of old and new, in fact we say the 90s as the period 1990-1999 but in reality it is 1991-2000 the last decade of the 20th century but a lot of people make this mistake

[@mae8631]

That part at 12:45 reminds me of something that should appear in the near future of the anime. If you know, you know. I just hope they will take similar liberties for it ! Looks great and it's pretty funny.

[@CartoonsEveryone]

Never been interested in One Piece before, but the OVA looks like something I can get into. Love the cel animation.

[@cocowavs]

lol "Yousopp" XD wtf. Anyway, thanks for showing us the existence of this OVA. Never even heard about this before. O_o;

[@Furugeru]

I still believe the animation in one piece baron omatsuri was the best it has ever been animated. Wano's animation is great yeah, but the art direction for baron omatsuri translates one piece's... cartoonishness the best I've ever seen. it has good fighting animation when it needs to, but the art style lends perfectly to what one piece was always about, which is the lightheartedness (and despair, sometimes) of adventure.

[@CornishCreamtea07]

I would love for there to be another One Piece Film that is basically "OK Director, you can whatever the hell you want, it's none canon after all".

[@forgottenrelics1197]

It's crazy that movie came out in 2005 yet its character/colour design still feels so fresh and modern. Timeless stuff.

[@luise213]

Could not agree more

[@Sputterbugz]

bc its a movie and not a weekly anime

[@callie-flower3177]

i don't go here but honestly i think i might watch this ova just for the animation alone. i've always admired that old retro style for anime, it's so gorgeous- this and the jojo's bizarre adventures ovas are at the top of the list of things i want to watch lol

[@callie-flower3177]

on that note, there is a toei animated sonic ova that was turned into a movie but even then it's still. SO cool to watch. it's not beautiful more than it is that it just has a Really Cool Style- the one Tyson Hesse (? don't remember if i'm getting him mixed up with someone else or not but iirc Tee Lopes worked on the OST) was trying to emulate, mainly in Mania, for reference

[@callie-flower3177]

and i know it's sort of the point because so many different animators worked on this, but it's mainly so reminiscent of fullmetal alchemist and naruto for me which i find really cool too!!!

[@paintbrush3554]

The animation is mazing! However Kazumi is way better at adapting Oda's charming artstyle to an anime. But I absolutely love the color, animation, and sound design in this film. A favorite detail is that luffys movements actually sound like real rubber. The artstyle is attractive but doesn't have the emersion into One Piece's cartoony world due to the grounded drawings.

[@Shade_91]

Liked simply because of the Space Dandy mention.

[@scottcampbell4353]

Great I can't unsee One Piece neck ears now.

[@xrecklessly]

We want Forgotten relics TO TALK ABOUT ONE PIECE MORE! I DEMAND IT!

[@sunbreh9075]

Once you mentioned Cowboy Bebop i instantly believed Yutaka Nakamura is the goat of action animation. To this day its still my 1# Anime pick and it still looks way better then most modern Animes God these fights are so clean

[@TheChamp820]

is it just me or does 1998 One Piece remind me of 1989’s Dragon Ball

[@anonyme117delt5]

it uses both celluloid animations where the anime produced uses computer animation

[@ravenna6543]

Holy shit, I didn't even realize but this was my first One Piece anime... I remember seeing it on adult swim as a kid and loving it but never seeing any more of it until the past year or so when I decided to give OP another shot. I started watching and... It didn't feel right. Something was off, it didn't feel like the experience that I had as a kid in the least. I stopped watching after a few episode, thinking nostalgia was getting the best of me and coming to the conclusion that OP wasn't for me. Until I watched this and realized that the OP I've been trying to watch isn't the same one that I'd actually watched.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Defeat the Pirate Ganzak is legendary.

[@dyl_pickle16-mta48]

Facts.

[@Rough_Estimates]

At least the original one had an ending

[@nathanbraun2067]

dam, that looks so good. We were robbed

[@brejaemcasa]

OMG. What a beatiful animation!

[@koolaidninja6628]

Damn. That genuinely would have been way better if they stook with that studio, IMO. They made I feel much more... Realistic in a sense that would make the wacky stuff to come even more terrifying and abnormal I would have loved to see how they would have drawn and animated things like big mom, white beared, etc. I feel like their take on it would have perfectly captured the level of fear each of them could produce just off their sheer size Flamboyant devil fruits like Enels or aces would have been beautiful to watcj

[@choco_coconut]

Its an ova. No way a weekly production could look like that. And the art style from that era is nowdays outdated.

[@ariestrawberriie]

@@choco_coconutoutdated? People would EAT IT UP

[@rathalomaniac6212]

Nami with grey eyes is something I never knew I needed, and now I'm sad we don't have it anymore.

[@bignog9840]

Looks like secret of blue water. Those muted 90s anime colors r nice.

[@heroessquad2019]

7:07 I thought it was my phone ringing

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

0:29 So this is just the One Piece version of the 1999 Hunter x Hunter.

[@Chriso22]

yoooo im acutally shocked there was a older adaption of the anime?!

[@BlaquePauldron]

12:47 Its all come full circle.