One Piece: The Movie

One Piece: The Movie is the first movie in the popular anime series One Piece. This movie features an original story which is separate from the storyline in the anime and manga. The story in this movie takes place after the Syrup Village Arc and before the Baratie Arc.

Synopsis
There once was a pirate known as the Great Gold Pirate Woonan, who obtained almost one-third of the world's gold. Over the course of a few years, the pirate's existence faded, and a legend grew that he disappeared with his gold to a remote island, an island pirates continue to search for. Aboard the Going Merry, Luffy and his crew, starved and reckless, are robbed of their treasure. In an attempt to get it back, they wreck the getaway ship, guided by a young boy named Tobio, who's a captured part of El Drago's pirate crew. El Drago's love for gold has driven him to look for Woonan's island, and thanks to Woonan's treasure map, he finds it. During this time, Luffy's crew have been split up, and despite their own circumstances, they must find a way to stop El Drago from obtaining Woonan's gold.

Long summary
There once was a pirate named Woonan who was very famous he only stole from evil pirates and was always focused on getting gold eventually he found 1/3 of all the gold in the world then buried it on a certain island. El drago finds a treasure map to Woonan’s island A boy named Tobio is caught by the pirate El Drago and forced to work for his crew El Drago wants to find the pirate Woonans treasure. Luffy Zoro Nami and Usopp are on the going merry starving when suddenly three thieves steal Nami’s treasure because the thieves give them oni-giri Luffy and Zoro don’t attack them because they think that they are good people however when Luffy asks for more oni-giri they attack him so he attacks them and destroys almost all of their ship. El Drago appears and blasts at them with his breath attack. The small ship was destroyed and Zoro and Luffy and Tobio and up on a floating board and survive the waves. They smell food and speedily paddle towards it. Tobios grandpa is a udon cook on a floating food stall his grandpa complains about Tobio running away then coming back Tobio says that Luffy and Zoro are his underlings and he only came back because he decided to feed them. His grandpa cooks udon dishes for them while Tobio explains how he thinks Woonan is alive and he wants to join his crew. Luffy says that he is going to be the pirate king and would ask woonan to join his crew Tobio gets mad until Zoro explains that Luffy isn’t trying to mock Tobio he seriously thinks that. When Luffy tries to leave the grandpa says they have to pay 11 beri for the food and after zoro explains that even though 11 beri is extremely cheap he still informs the grandpa that they don’t have money. Luffy tries to get away with an I O U written on a rock but the grandpa will have none of it and chains Luffy and Zoro together. We see Nami hiding out on El Dragos ship and she sees the going merry and Usopp hiding under a barrel but still getting caught. Usopp then proceeds to lie and say that he was great friends with Woonan and thus knows where the treasure is and it works because they let him “lead them”. Usopp later witnesses the great strength of Dragos hired swordsman when he destroys an entire hill that is blocking their path. Nami then spies Luffy and Zoro tied up on the shop stall ship but decides to pretend that she didn’t see anything. Tobio washes dishes while Luffy tries to get out of paying by arguing with the grandpa. Suddenly, Luffy’s hat is blown off by the wind and he asks Tobio to get it for him because it is important to him. Tobio does so, but when the conversation turns back to gold and Woonan Tobio complains about working at a udon shop when he wants more so he storms off in a huff taking Luffy’s hat with him, so Luffy with Zoro attached to his back runs after him to get his hat back. Tobio asks Luffy if he thinks he can join Woonans crew even though he is weak Luffy says that although they have different goals they both have to do the same things in order to attain them that is go forward and take steps to work towards their goals. Tobio calls Luffy a simple idiot and claims he doesn’t know what he is talking about soon they then end up lost in the woods until El Drago and his crew destroying the “palace” catches their attention and they run towards the sound. Luffy introduces himself and Zoro to El Drago and when things go sour Zoro grabs one of his swords with his teeth and is able to defend them however one of Luffy’s legs gets caught on a rock and stretches then accidentally causes them to be flung backwards. Nami finds them and unlocks the chains by picking the lock. Nami reveals she had stolen the treasure map and that the castle they had destroyed was probably a decoy. Nami lights a match and holds it underneath it to try to “scorch” a secret from it, but she messes up and instead lights it on fire, then gives up and says lets go to grandline. Luffy says wasn’t there something written on the map? And Usopp says yes the treasure sleeps the whales head points west the whale’s tail points east. Nami points out that the whales tail isn’t pointing east but at a strangely shaped mountain. They climb the mountain and Tobio almost falls but Usopp catches him Zoro thinks that maybe the climb is too difficult for a kid. Luffy finds a cave and they are surprised to see Tobio’s grandfather inside. The grandpa explains that Woonan liked to hide things on tall places so if he would hide treasure he would hide it there. The others realize that this means he knew Woonan well. He explains that the two of them were like brothers and grew up in the same village. Woonan was digging up on a hill when Ganzo walks up and tries to get him to eat some of the udon he made. Woonan refuses to eat it and tells him to open his eyes and shows him a small hunk of gold that took his father his whole life to earn and he says he won’t be that stupid and that he will become a pirate that steals from evil people and he asks Ganzo to be his right hand man, Ganzo says that putting so much emphasis on gold is what is pathetic and that Woonan’s father was a good man who taught him many things including how to make udon. Woonan scoffs at this and says his father was just a drunk. Ganzo says he noticed that gold doesn’t laugh, drink, cry, or sing and in many ways it’s no different from a rock. Woonan is offended but Ganzo continues and says that Woonans father complimented him on his udon and he realized that he wants to make the best udon for his customers. Woonan complains that Ganzo is pathetic and is wasting his life and that one’s life should be spent on a grand ambition. He then asks Ganzo again to be a pirate with him and gather all the gold in the world. But Ganzo refuses, the two boys start fighting and wrestling and Woonan asks if Ganzo thinks he can really beat him, Ganzo replies by head butting him Woonan accidentally drops his pirate flag and grabs it but nearly falls off the cliff, Ganzo manages to grab him but the cliff breaks and they both fall down. Woonan uses his flag to grab hold of a Cliffside bush and Ganzo grabs him. Ganzo comments that his flag is breaking and tells him to fulfill his ambitions so he lets go and falls into the sea. After Luffy stupidly asks if died and Usopp hits him and points out how could that be possible if he is still alive. Ganzo continues on to say that luckily there was a passing ship that saw and rescued him. Three days later he woke up and Woonan had already left and he never saw him again. He goes on to say that Woonan seemed to change ever since he left and the same stubborn kid who wouldn’t try his udon then would probably try it now. They all continue up the cliff and at the top find a large empty house. Zoro notices there is no furniture except a suspiciously unremarkable fireplace he walks over and pushes it and it rolls away revealing a secret passage way while Luffy and Usopp stand there impressed. They are about to go down the passage way into the basement when Zoro senses something and tells them to duck, the house explodes and it is revealed to be caused by El Drago’s swordsman. El Drago hints that he figured out the clue on the map, Tobio runs out with a rock to try to stop them from getting the gold and his grandpa steps in front of him to defend him and receives the hit that El Drago was going to give the boy he accidentally drops his undon pot. El Drago kicks it open to see if it is gold scattering the food everywhere and Tobio gets mad and says it’s important, Drago stomps on the food and Tobio runs at him. Drago is about to hit him but Luffy punches him first. Luffy then takes a page out of Zoro’s book and picks up the udon on the ground and eats it. He says that it is delicious and that Ganzo’s udon is undoubtedly the best and he won’t forgive Drago for doing that. Gorash Drago’s hired swordsman is ordered to attack but is blocked by Zoro. The other underlings recognize Zoro and are afraid but Drago is confidant and says that Gorash is an undefeatable swordsman and says if he defeats Zoro he will give him 200 gold coins and if he kills him he will give him 500. When Zoro isn’t defeated immediately (although Zoro is barely holding up and says he has monstrous strength dropping the sword he was holding in his mouth) he then ups the price to 1000 gold coins. Gorash pushes Zoro against a big rock and breaks it then pushes him to the ground. Zoro is now on the offense and even though he is on the ground Gorash is having a hard time holding him back, Zoro asks if he is ashamed to swing his sword for money like his eyes tell him he is shamed to give up his pride as a swordsman. Despite Drago shouting him on he still has hesitation and Zoro says although he has skill because he has no pride as a swordsman Zoro is better than him and then he proceeds to defeat him. Zoro says he didn’t hit any vital points and asks that when he regains his pride that he challenge Zoro again. Tobio is surprised at Zoro’s strength and Nami replies that it’s not over yet. Luffy says to Drago it’s your turn and moves to fight him. Drago hits Luffy with a breath attack and it seems that his attack is mostly electrical in nature so although the wind pushes him back it doesn’t otherwise affect him. Luffy grabs onto a rock so when the wind pushed him back he was automatically stretched he then dose a gumu gumu rocket at Drago and slams him into a rock. Usopp explains to an awed Tobio that Luffy also ate a devil fruit and is a rubber man. Luffy dodges another breath attack and then hits Drago with a gumu gumu pistol but Drago catches his fist in his mouth and bites then uses Luffy’s elasticity against him by stretching his arm then using the inertia to body slam Luffy. Drago then cuts at Luffy a bunch of times with his claws and Luffy doges his attacks. Usopp is scared that Luffy will be cut in half. Luffy luckily trips and misses an attack and from the ground uses his legs to perform an attack (where he twists his legs a bunch of times then uses them to throw the enemy into the air) Drago attacks from the air but Luffy dodges, when Drago falls down he then hits him with a Gomu Gomu bell. Drago is still conscious however and attacks Luffy again but he dodges then hits him with a Gomu Gomu spear then a Gomu Gomu Gatling then a Gomu Gomu whip shattering his gold armor. Crying that the gold is his Drago begins to prepare for what is probably a huge attack and Luffy begins to suck in air. Luffy somehow uses his Gomu Gomu balloon to reflect Dragos attack back at him finally completely defeating him. Luffy then uses a Gomu Gomu bazooka to knock him off the cliff. The rest of Dragos crew get scared and start to run away Luffy tells them to stop but they don’t and fall off of the cliff too. Tobio gives Luffy his hat. Luffy apologizes for eating Woonan’s food the Grandpa says he is going to get a belly ache from it. Luffy denies it saying it won’t happen because he is a pirate. They all then go into the basement and after walking through a long cave like tunnel find a wooden door they open it and find a skeleton. Tobio doesn’t want to think its Woonan and he denies it his grandpa comforts him. They then see writing on the wall that is according to Ganzo in Woonan’s handwriting. It says to the people looking for gold I am the former gold pirate Woonan, former because now I am just a man waiting for death, the gold has been returned to all its former owners. I had a childhood dream to build a mountain of gold but now as I sit here in front of it words said by a man I once knew come to my mind “gold can’t laugh it’s just like a rock” it’s true, the thing I devoted my entire life to was not having gold but rather the adventure of trying to find the gold. There is no gold here but a treasure that is much more valuable. While to others it might seem worthless, to me this plenty enough, so please do not destroy this place it is where my most precious treasure sleeps. It was a pirate flag. Woonan said since the day Ganzo saved his life he had felt like he was on the same boat as he was and that he was by his side through all of his adventures, and because of that he had no regrets about the way he lived his life. Usopp says to Tobio that his grandpa is a great man because he is the only man that the great pirate Woonan trusted. Zoro says although one was a great pirate and the other sells udon the pride they both had was equal. Tobio says he sorry, his grandpa tells him to just live however he wants to and he will always protect him. Zoro Luffy and Ussop are saying goodbye to Tobio and his grandfather. Ussop asks what they are going to do; Ganzo says after he builds a grave for his friend he will continue selling udon, Ussop then asks Tobio if he still wants to become a pirate or if he will sell udon. Tobio says he will stay with his grandpa for now and think about that the next time he leaves home but whatever he decides to do he will do it seriously. Nami comes out with a huge sack of treasure and explains she stole it from El Drago. Nami takes some of the treasure and gives it to Ganzo and says that it is payment for what those two ate and that they should consider it a loan and that they have to return it at three percent interest. But Ganzo says he doesn’t want the money now he wants Luffy and Zoro to be indebted to him without interest because this will encourage them to come and meet again. Ganzo says to the “eat and run comrades” that the weather is great and they should already set say. As they are sailing away they wave goodbye. Tobio says as they fall out of sight that he thinks that Luffy will really become the pirate king right? And his grandpa says maybe. Tobio then screams thank you.

In the ending credits you get a brief sneak peak at Sanji.

Trivia

 * In the end credits, a scene based on the cover page of Chapter 34 is shown, featuring the town musicians of Bremen (a donkey, a dog, a cat and a chicken) making their first appearance in an official One Piece movie. Their next appearance would be on Chapter 604's color spread.
 * On the same picture, Pandaman can be clearly seen in the background.
 * Since the Straw Hats have the Going Merry, but Sanji is not present (apart from during the credits), this film must take place between the Syrup Village Arc and the Baratie Arc. The Going Merry is flying Luffy's Jolly Roger, which means it must also take place after the Straw Hats visit the Island of Rare Animals.
 * The color spread from Chapter 79 is shown at the end.

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