

#ONE PIECE MOVIES MOVIE#
This is a fine One Piece movie and definitely a recommended watch.Ĭhopper’s Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals (2002)Īdding Chopper (and specifically not Nico Robin) to the Straw Hat crew, Chopper’s Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals is essentially both the least canonical and one of the least beloved of the One Piece movies (I still enjoy it because Chopper is my favourite character, but that’s neither here nor there). The steaks are high throughout the movie and it’s cool to see the Straw Hats in all-out battles against their various powerful and well-matched foes. The narrative follows the Straw Hat pirates as they are once again set upon by thieves and chase after their stolen pirate ship ending up at a “floating” island whose inhabitants are being oppressed by a pirate crew called the Trump Siblings. In just a year, One Piece’s quality of animation improved significantly, but this movie’s visuals are still dated by today’s standards, just not grossly so. Sanji makes is first film appearance as a Straw Hat crew member in Clockwork Island Adventure. Fairly light as far as One Piece movies go, this is a good one to see if only to understand just how greatly One Piece has evolved over the years and enjoy a little side-story with the early Straw Hat crew. The movie’s plot involves the Straw Hat pirates, starving for their lack of Sanji, being shanghaied by the El Drago pirates who are on their way to an island to search for the legendary treasure of the Great Gold Pirate Woonan and then getting tangled up in the search for the treasure. The Straw Hat pirate crew for this movie consists only of Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Nami. The first One Piece feature film is a good one, but its animation hasn’t aged very well over the last decade or so.
#ONE PIECE MOVIES SERIES#
While sometimes bloody, One Piece is generally good for the whole family and has such a compelling story that you’ll likely want to start reading the manga once you’ve seen any of the anime series or movies. Luffy and his rag-tag Straw Hat pirate crew as they set-out to help Luffy become The King of the Pirates by finding a legendary treasure called One Piece that the last Pirate King Gold Roger hid at the end of the Grand Line, a series of islands separated from the rest of the world by windless oceans that cannot be sailed. One Piece follows the story of a pirate named Monkey D.

Since then, One Piece has grown to be the most popular manga series of all time in Japan with over 280 million volumes sold as of 2012. It took less than two years for One Piece to become a full-fledged anime series with the first episode airing on Oct. 24, 1997 in the weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. The first chapter of the One Piece manga hit store shelves on Aug.
