List of One Piece episodes (season 1)

The first season of the One Piece anime series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Konosuke Uda. The season is adapted from the first twelve volumes of the manga by Eiichiro Oda and aired on Fuji Television from October 20, 1999 through March 21, 2001, totalling 62 episodes. The first season depicts the exploits of the pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy and as he gathers his crew and heads to the Grand Line in search of the titular treasure, the "One Piece".

In 2004, 4Kids Entertainment licensed the series for a heavily edited, dubbed broadcast. 4Kids edited the episodes for content, merged one episode and left out 18 episodes, thus reducing the season's episode count to a total of 44 episodes. The series made its U.S. premiere on September 18, 2004 on the Fox Broadcasting Company as part of its Fox Box programing block, lasting until July 23, 2005. Funimation Entertainment later licensed the series and released the first season in four unedited, bilingual compilations; the first was released on May 27, 2008 and the last was released on March 31, 2009.

The season's original version and its adaptation by Funimation use four pieces of theme music: two opening themes and two ending themes. The first opening theme is the award winning title "We Are!" (ウィーアー!, Wī Ā!), performed by Hiroshi Kitadani. The second opening, starting with episode 48 onwards, is "Believe" by Folder5. The first ending theme, titled "Memories", was performed by Maki Otsuki, who also performed the second ending theme song, titled "Run! Run! Run!", starting with episode 30 onwards. Funimation produced the English versions of the songs, with "We Are!" sung by Vic Mignogna, "Believe" sung by Meredith McCoy, "Memories" sung by Brina Palencia, and "Run! Run! Run!" sung by Caitlin Glass. 4Kids originally produced an English version of "We Are!" themselves, but replaced it with a rap song, titled "Pirate Rap", for the first thirty episodes, and "Pirate Rap V2 (with Usopp & Sanji)", for the remaining episodes. Both versions were performed by Russell Velasquez. An instrumental version of the rap was used for the broadcast version's ending theme.

Episode list

Home Releases

Japanese

VHS

DVD

English

Notes

1. ^ The figures of the rank and rating column are taken from the same sources as the respective episode's original airdate.
2. ^ Rank of the episode in Video Research's weekly, household-rating-based ranking of anime shows

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