Home Video Releases

Toei Animation holds the right of One Piece anime in Japan. Currently they released more than 100 DVDs. In addition, starting from July 23, 2010 Toei will re-release the series from the beginning into the "DVD Logs". The first DVD released on February 21, 2001 and it was contained four episodes.

Toei divide the series into seasons: The first season is the only one that did not has any special title the season contained 61 episodes. The second season was entitled "Entering into the Grand Line" and contained 16 episodes. The third season entitled "Introducing Chopper at the Winter Island" and contained 15 episodes. The fourth season divided into two parts; part one is called "Arrival at Arabasta" and second part called "Fierce Fighting in Arabasta" and contained 18 and 20 episodes respectively.

The first 206 episodes released in common 4/3 aspect ratio image. The TV version of the episode 207 and onward were broadcasting in HDTV 16/9  aspect ratio although Toei decide to release episodes 207-263 to a not canonical aspect ratio with the image was cropped and resized to 640x446. The rest of the series continue to cropped in 4/3 anamorphic display aspect ratio video image. The only exception are special episodes 291, 293, 302 which released in 16/9 widescreen format.