One day

One day - "THE ROOTLESS"

This is the 13th opening of One Piece.

It first aired on July 18th, 2010. In contrast with most (if not all) of the series´ openings, One day shows a more "serious" or less colorful kind of music. This could be attributed to the somber events that occur during the Marineford arc (Ace´s death being a prime example).

Opening
The One day opening is mainly divided into 4 parts:
 * 1) The first verse displays each Straw Hat alone at one of the crew's tasks before the traditional gathering.
 * 2) The first and second choruses display group shots of the different Marineford Arc characters.
 * 3) The second verse displays shots of Luffy and Ace's Flashback.
 * 4) Each part is intertwined with a scene of Luffy running in order to rescue Ace.

First verse
It displays the Straw Hats doing various things: Zoro cleaning one of his swords, Usopp sitting on the railing of the ship fishing, Nami somberly stirring her tea and looking at her Log Pose, Sanji looking over some wine in the kitchen, Chopper working on some medicine, Robin reading a book, Franky working on a cannon, and Brook playing his violin at the rear of the ship. Then a group shot of the whole crew.

First Chorus Characters shots

 * Whitebeard's crew shots: First a display of the major Whitebeard Pirates (with Whitebeard in the center) and some of their New World allies. Everyone but Whitebeard fades out, and Whitebeard then uses his quake powers to crack the air. Then come shots of Marco using his phoenix power, Jozu using his diamond power, Vista showing off his swordplay and producing rose petals, and Oars Jr. roaring at the screen.
 * Shots of Silvers Rayleigh and Shanks.
 * Shots of the Impel Down prisoners: Crocodile using his sand powers with Mr. 1 using his steel powers behind him. Mr. 3 and Buggy showing off their respective wax and splitting powers. Jinbei preparing an underwater attack. Ivankov using his Death Wink with Inazuma in his Choki Choki no Mi form.
 * A group shot of the Eleven Supernovas (without Luffy and Zoro).
 * A shot of how the Blackbeard Pirates are in the anime (Marshall D. Teach, Van Auger, Jesus Burgess, Doc Q, Stronger, Lafitte and Shiryū).

Second verse
It consists of various clips of Luffy's past with Ace which include: The two fighting an octopus, running from a huge lizard, fighting over food, stargazing, then to the two smiling together.

Second chorus Characters shots

 * Marines shot: Garp and Sengoku along with the Vice Admirals, Hina, Coby, and Helmeppo. Followed by Sentoumaru doing a palm strike.
 * Shichibukai shots: Kuma launching a shock wave and then firing a laser from his mouth, Doflamingo grinning as usual while performing his hand-puppeteer movement, Moria creating bats with his shadow powers, Mihawk preforming a huge slash with his sword, and Hancock firing a Mero Mero beam.
 * Smoker using his powers with Tashigi by him.
 * Admiral shots: Kizaru firing a light blast, Aokiji firing an icicle, and finally Akainu unleashing his magma powers.

Ace and Luffy theme
At the song opening: It begins with a shot of the Straw Hat Jolly Roger as it blows in the wind. Then it goes to Luffy as he rests on the roof of the crow's nest. Then it goes to a shot of the back of the Thousand Sunny as it sails on before cutting to Luffy and Ace facing opposite directions as the title comes up. We then see Luffy walk through some rubble before a few shots of Ace.

At the end of the first verse: We then cut back to Luffy who continues walking through the debris as he perks up because he spotted something and smiles before he starts to run.

At the beginning of the second verse: Luffy still runs through the debris smiling.

The few seconds of the end of the second verse: Luffy continues to run through the debris from behind.

Second chorus ends: We finally see what Luffy was running to: Ace, who has his back turned to him. He turns around and, though we don't completely see his face, he smiles at him. Luffy does the same before we get a wide shot of the two and the One Piece logo ending the opening.

Production
The band THE ROOTLESS had always been dreaming about one day doing an ONE PIECE opening.

They wrote the lyrics through trial and error, with no less than 20 rewrites, arriving at the message of "protecting the things that are important to me".