The first 263 episodes of One Piece in English are on sale. Toei Animation announced yesterday that the Fandango At Home One Piece Collection in dub is 80% off until Friday, November 20, covering the East Blue, Alabasta, Skypiea and Water 7 arcs. Check out the official post down below:
Toei's post breaks the collection down by arc:
- East Blue: Episodes 1-53
- Alabasta: Episodes 54-143
- Skypiea: Episodes 144-205
- Water 7: Episodes 206-263
The post's link leads to the One Piece Collection 2 bundle on Fandango's store. Toei did not list the regular or sale price in its announcement. Fandango, which started as Vudu, offers digital rentals and purchases and works with digital locker services, with apps on smart TVs, Blu-ray players, streaming devices and phones.
What The Collection Covers
The early seasons of the anime were directed by Konosuke Uda at Toei Animation and began airing on Fuji Television on October 20, 1999. The first season follows Monkey D. Luffy as he gathers his crew in the East Blue and prepares to head to the Grand Line, defeating the dangerous local pirate captains in his way as he earns his reputation as "Straw Hat" Luffy. That season adapted the first 12 volumes of the manga, ran until March 7, 2001, and ended with 8 anime-original episodes set on Warship Island.
The Alabasta episodes follow Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates into the desert country, where they arrive with Nefertari Vivi to stop a looming civil war. The arc ends with the crew defeating Baroque Works and Nico Robin joining the Straw Hats.
Skypiea takes the crew to a land of winged people built on clouds, where they face Eneru and his henchmen. In Japan, the Alabasta season aired from December 2001 to October 2002 and adapted volumes 18 through 24 of the manga, while the Skypiea season ran from February 2003 to June 2004 and covered volumes 24 through 32. Water 7 adapts volumes 34 through 39 of Eiichiro Oda's manga and originally aired in Japan from April 2005 to April 2006, directed by Uda and Munehisa Sakai.
Toei also shared a short dub clip from the Alabasta arc with the sale. The post calls Alabasta home to the Straw Hat Crew's "most unforgettable adventures."
One Piece's English Dub History
4Kids Entertainment licensed One Piece in 2004 for a heavily edited English broadcast that premiered in the U.S. on September 18, 2004, on Fox as part of its FoxBox block. 4Kids cut the first season down from 61 episodes to 53 by editing content, merging 1 episode and dropping 18 others.
Funimation then took over the series, and the Skypiea season became the first One Piece season it dubbed after 4Kids was dropped. That English version aired on Cartoon Network from September 29, 2007, to March 15, 2008. In October 2011, Funimation announced it had acquired the Water 7 episodes as part of its own U.S. "Season Four."
More One Piece News
The Straw Hats also joined Fortnite's Treasure Hunters mini-season on November 1, following Dragon Ball, Naruto, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan and Demon Slayer into the game, and the newest episodes from the Elbaph arc are heading to Crunchyroll in English, with the Elbaph dub schedule already set.
The One Piece manga started in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997, and Toei's anime is closing in on 1,200 episodes.
Which arc from episodes 1-263 would you rewatch first in the dub, Alabasta, Skypiea or Water 7?
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