Episode of Arabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates

One Piece The Movie: Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates (エピソードオブアラバスタ 砂漠の王女と海賊たち Episōdo obu Arabasuta Sabaku no Ōjo to Kaizoku-tachi) is the eighth movie in the anime and manga series, One Piece. It is an edited abriged retelling of the Alabasta arc. It was released on March 3, 2007 and debuted at #2 in the Japanese box office. The movie has grossed 7,075,924 million dollars in Japanese box office and is currently at number 25 in the yearend chart. It will be the first One Piece movie to be released by FUNimation.

Summary
Vivi dreams about riding Pell across Alabasta as a child until awakened to find Luffy and Usopp had fished a man named Bon Clay out of the ocean. Bon Clay entertains the crew with his Mane mane no Mi abilities until leaving. Vivi reveals that one of his forms was her father and that they must leave to Alabasta.

There, Alabasta's hero, Sir Crocodile had killed several bandits and claimed the reward. Having drawn symbols of freindships on each others arms, the crew sets sail for Alabasta which is entering a civil war. On their way, the crew discovers Vivi's childhood friend, Tootoo who reveals that Alabasta has long been without rain but he still has hope.

Before the crew leaves, Tootoo gives Luffy a small barrel of water. While traveling through the desert, Luffy states that it's hopeless and thus breaks out in a fight with Vivi but overcome this arguement. Meanwhile Crocodile calls a meeting with Baroque Works, an evil oranization. The group charges to Alabasta on a Moving Crab named Scissors. Their journey is interupted when Crocodile attacks Vivi. Luffy rescues her and battles Crocodile. Pell appears to assist the others but is easily defeated by Robin, Crocodile's acosiate. The others continue to flee as Luffy fights Crocodile who proves a formitable enemy. Luffy is struck by Crocodile but still manages to fight back, but, lacking in strength, he is thrown into the Desert Sunflower.

Almost to Alabasta, Nami uses her charm to speed Scissoers up but he crashes into the wall. At their destenation, the crew discovers a series of soldiers aswel as Miss Merrychristmas, Mr.4, and Lasso who Usopp and Chopper team up against. Carue is shot down when running the blockade of soldiers but calls on the Super Spot-Billed Duck Squad to take over. Zoro is pitted against Mr.1, Nami against Miss Doublefinger, and Sanji against Bon Clay who reveals himself as Mr.2. The crews' opponents prove formitable but are driven on to avenge Luffy and save Alabasta and are victorious against their opponents.

Having reached the kingdom, Vivi faces Crocodile who takes her father captive and threatens his life. Chaka and Kohza appear to fight but prove no match. Crocodile shows Vivi the horrific war before withering away until dropping Vivi of the edge. Just as Vivi is about to die, Luffy appears riding Pell and rescues her. Luffy then runs to Crocodile to rescue the king. The crew regroup to discover Mr.7 and Miss Father's Day had activated a bomb that will destroy Alabasta after shooting an airborn Pell down. In the ruins of the Alabasa, Robin descovers that the enscriptions on the stone were entries of Alabasta's history and not of the poneglyphs. With Robin of no use to him anymore, Crocodile fights her.

During the attack, Luffy appears ready to fight Crocodile. Luffy is proved formitable and thus Crocodile resorts to removing the shell of his hook, revealing a poision carrying hook that he frequantly uses against Luffy. Luffy neglects to give up and counters Crocodile's deathblow by snapping his hook off. The enraged Crocodile states he surpasses Luffy before unsheathing a knife from hook hand and attacking Luffy who dodges and swears to surpass him and kicks Crocodile into the where he attemps Sandstorm Burrden that Luffy dodges before twisting his body and blowing himself into the air where Crocodile attemps Desert Rapier that Luffy counters with Gomu Gomu no Storm, ultimately defeating Crocodile who is launched through the ground. The soldiers, clearly seeing Crocodile as their enemy, call off the war.

With the bomb still active, the crew team up to launch Vivi into the clock tower where she uses her Peacock Strings to knock Mr.7 and Miss Father's Day out. Seeing the bomb impossible to disable, Vivi loses hope but Pell lands in the clock tower and enters hawk form and grabs the bomb before carrying it beyond the clouds as the bomb detonates, killing Pell who saves Alabasta, then, at long last, it rains. Robin carries the unconscious king and Luffy to safetey from the collapsing ruins.

That night, as the crew sleeps, Vivi thanks Pell for saving Alabasa. Three days later, Luffy awakes from his coma and he, along with the crew are given a feast as thanks for their selfless act. On the day of Vivi's speech, the crew departs. Much to the audiences anger, Vivi is replaced by Igiram as Vivi and Carue consault the Straw Hat Crew who prepare to turn back for her. Vivi truly came to wish them fairwell, this being Vivi's speech that she putes over the speakers for all of Alabasta to hear about her thanks for their freindship.

Before leaving, the crew remove their bandages, revealing their mark of freindship an X that Vivi and Carue reveal aswel as the friends wish eachother farewll.

Changes

 * Ace, the Marines, Rainbase, Bananadile and Mr. 3 were removed for the movie
 * Sanji was not suppose to be present when Mr. 2 was on the ship, he was inside the whole time
 * In the original version, Vivi woke to discover Mr. 2 rather than being awoken from a nap in the movie.
 * Crocodile withers Luffy's leg with Barchan after a failed Gomu Gomu no Stamp rather than his arm from the original version.
 * Crocodile neglects to create a sandstorm heading towards Yuba and strikes, but does not impale Luffy instend he threw him into the Desert Sunflower in the movie.
 * The crew originaly ride Scissors but finish shortly after Luffy's defeat at the hands of Crocodile in the movie, this resulting in the abscence of the Super Spot-Billed Duck Squad's debut.
 * After deafeating Mr. 4, Miss Merry Christmas, and Lasso, Chopper and Usopp are blown into by the explosion of Lasso's last baseball bomb sneeze before celebrating with a thumbs up, this scene is absent in the movie.
 * When Nami defeats Miss Doublefinger with the Tornado Tempo, the second bird is wrapped around her left leg and not her right and was originaly launched through several buidings but was launched within short distance of Nami in the movie.
 * When Zoro defeats Mr. 1 with the Single Sword Lion Strike, he originaly cuts the center of his chest but cuts the top right in the movie.
 * Luffy's second fight with Crocodile is edited out as their original third and final match is when he discovers Luffy's survival.
 * After his Sanji defeats Mr. 2, neglects to honor his efforts.
 * Orginally, wakes up and carries Robin and the King to safety, in the movie Robin carried both out while they were unconcious.

Cast

 * Monkey D. Luffy - Mayumi Tanaka
 * Roronoa Zoro - Kazuya Nakai
 * Nami - Akemi Okamura
 * Usopp - Kappei Yamaguchi
 * Sanji - Hiroaki Hirata
 * Tony Tony Chopper - Ikue Otani
 * Nefertari Vivi - Misa Watanabe
 * Mr.2 - Kazuki Yao
 * Sir Crocodile - Ryūzaburō Ōtomo
 * Mr.1 - Tetsu Inada
 * Miss Doublefinger - Ako Mayama
 * Mr.4 - Masaya Takatsuka
 * Miss Merry Christmas - Mami Kingetsu