Heart of Gold

Heart of Gold is a TV special of the One Piece anime directed by Tatsuya Nagamine. The special is a tie-in to One Piece Film: Gold.

Short Summary
The Straw Hat Pirates meet Olga, a girl who has escaped the island Alchemi. Alchemi was known for its metal production, and for the creation of the extremely valuable Pure Gold, but the island disappeared two hundred years ago. Olga is now being pursued by Marines, interested in Pure Gold. Gild Tesoro, who controls the black market, hears of Olga and hires treasure hunter Mad Treasure to track her down. The Straw Hats join forces with Olga in search of the Pure Gold, while she plots to take advantage of them and use the treasure to become rich herself. .

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Olga Myskina
 * Yukimura
 * Mad Treasure
 * Psycho P
 * Naomi Drunk
 * Tanaka
 * Rob Lucci
 * Hattori
 * Usopp
 * Monkey D. Luffy
 * Tony Tony Chopper
 * Brook
 * Roronoa Zoro
 * Sanji
 * Nami
 * Nico Robin
 * Franky
 * Acier Myskina
 * Carina
 * Heracles
 * Gild Tesoro

Anime Notes

 * Although a stand-alone story, this special leads into One Piece Film: Gold, with the both the special and film written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa. Mad Treasure will appear in One Piece Film: Gold, and Film: Gold main antagonist, Gild Tesoro, will appear in this special.
 * The Straw Hats clothes at the end of the special, and their possession of a Vivre Card to Gran Tesoro, indicates that this special take place before One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0.
 * The time of this special is sometime after the Dressrosa Arc as Nami have The Straw Hat Pirates new Bounty posters, and Usopp novice usage of Kenbunshoku Haki
 * Chopper uses Arm Point, despite not longer using it as one of his transformations after the timeskip. It is shown that like most of his other post time-skip transformations he doesn't need to eat a Rumble Ball to transform.
 * Similarly, during his fight with Naomi Drunk, Zoro uses Sanjuroku Pound Ho for the first time after the time-skip.
 * During the final fight, Sanji battles Psycho P, the Swordsmen of the antagonist group. This is the second time Sanji fought the antagonist swordsman, the first being Heaby in the third movie.