Home Video Releases

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

The first 206 episodes were produced in the common 4:3 "Fullscreen" aspect ratio. Starting with episode 207, Toei began to produce and broadcast the series in native HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio although Toei decided to release episodes 207-229 (The Entire Davy Back Fight Arc and Filler arcs between that and Water 7) in the non-native aspect ratio with the image being cropped and re-sized to the prior 4:3 aspect ratio. The rest of the series is released for sale on DVD in the proper widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, however Toei has provided cropped 4:3 versions of the DVDs to DVD rental stores in Japan. This, unfortunately, has caused some misconception that Toei only made the show available in 4:3 to fans not native to Japan, because the most common DVD raws found cited online were from the 4:3 rental copies.

Starting with Episode 575, Toei began to release Blu-Ray releases of the episodes.

Season 1
Toei divided the series into seasons: The first season is the only one that did not have any special title.

Season 2
"Entering into the Grand Line"

Season 3
"Introducing Chopper at the Winter Island"

Season 4
The fourth season is divided into two parts.

Part 1
"Arrival at Alabasta".

Part 2
"Fierce Fighting in Alabasta"

Season 5
"TV Original" Each Volume has a different subtitle for this Season. It is the first and only season that does not have any Log Collections so far.