Home Video Releases

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The Toei Animation One Piece anime has been released on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray in Japan. The TV series has been released by Avex Group, the first nine movies were released by Toei Video and Movies 10 onwards have been released by Pony Canyon. More than 100 DVDs have been released.

The TV series is initially released as single disc "Pieces" containing 2-5 episodes, with "Log" re-releases containing 13-19 episodes following from July 23, 2010. The first DVD was released on February 21, 2001, which contained four episodes. The Pieces were released simultaneously on VHS and DVD during the first two seasons ^[1], and rental VHS versions continued to be released until the end of season eight ^[2]. Starting with Episode 575, the series was also released on Blu-ray.

The first 206 episodes were produced in the 4:3 "Fullscreen" aspect ratio. Starting with episode 207, Toei began to produce and broadcast the series in the HDTV 16:9 aspect ratio, but Avex decided to release episodes 207-229 (The Entire Davy Back Fight Arc and Filler arcs between that and Water 7) in the non-native 4:3 aspect ratio, cropping the image. This also affected the Log release of these episodes ^[3]. The rest of the series is released for sale on DVD in the unaltered widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, however Avex 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.

A comparison image from episode 226 DVD version, before the 16:9 DVDs began.

The TV version from Episode 226.

A picture from episode 341 the image is cropped in the Rental-only DVD version.

The Image from the HDTV of Episode 341.

Season 1Edit

Toei divided the series into seasons: The first season is the only one that did not have any special title, but it has subsequently been referred to online as "East Blue".^[4]

Season	DVD cover	Piece	Release Date	Episodes	Log Collection	Release Date
01		1	February 21, 2001	1	"EAST BLUE"	July 23, 2010
				2
				3
				4
		2	February 21, 2001	5
				6
				7
				8
		3	March 22, 2001	9
				10
				11
				12
		4	April 18, 2001	13
				14
				15
				16
		5	May 23, 2001	17
				18	"SANJI"	July 23, 2010
				19
				20
		6	June 20, 2001	21
				22
				23
				24
		7	July 18, 2001	25
				26
				27
				28
		8	August 22, 2001	29
				30
				31	"NAMI"	August 27, 2010
				32
		9	September 19, 2001	33
				34
				35
				36
		10	October 24, 2001	37
				38
				39
				40
		11	November 21, 2001	41
				42
				43
				44
		12	December 19, 2001	45	"LOGUE TOWN"	August 27, 2010
				46
				47
				48
		13	January 17, 2002	49
				50
				51
				52
		14	February 14, 2002	53
				54
				55
				56
		15	March 20, 2002	57
				58
				59
				60
				61

Season 2Edit

"Entering into the Grand Line"

Season	DVD cover	Piece	Release Date	Episodes	Log Collection	Release Date
02		1	April 3, 2002	62	"GRAND LINE"	December 22, 2010
				63
				64
		2	May 2, 2002	65
				66
				67
		3	June 5, 2002	68
				69
				70
		4	July 2, 2002	71
				72
				73
		5	August 7, 2002	74
				75
				76
				77

Season 3Edit

"Introducing Chopper at the Winter Island"

Season	DVD cover	Piece	Release Date	Episodes	Log Collection	Release Date
03		1	September 4, 2002	78	"CHOPPER"	December 22, 2010
				79
				80
		2	October 2, 2002	81
				82
				83
		3	November 7, 2002	84
				85
				86
		4	December 4, 2002	87
				88
				89
		5	January 8, 2003	90
				91
				92

Season 4Edit

The fourth season is divided into two parts.

Part 1Edit

"Arrival at Alabasta".

Season	DVD cover	Piece	Release Date	Episodes	Log Collection	Release Date
04 part 1		1	February 5, 2003	93	"ARABASTA"	January 28, 2011
				94
				95
		2	March 8, 2003	96
				97
				98
		3	April 4, 2003	99
				100
				101
		4	May 8, 2003	102
				103
				104
		5	June 4, 2003	105
				106
				107
		6	July 2, 2003	108
				109
				110

Part 2Edit

"Fierce Fighting in Alabasta"

Season	DVD cover	Piece	Release Date	Episodes	Log Collection	Release Date
04 part 2		1	August 6, 2003	111	"VIVI"	January 28, 2011
				112
		2	September 3, 2003	113
				114
				115
		3	October 1, 2003	116
				117
				118
		4	November 6, 2003	119
				120
				121
		5	December 3, 2003	122
				123
				124
		6	January 7, 2004	125
				126
				127
		7	February 4, 2004	128
				129
				130

Season 5Edit

"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.

Season	DVD cover	Piece	Release Date	Episodes
05		1 - "Dreams: Part 1"	March 3, 2004	131
				132
		2 - "Dreams: Part 2"	April 7, 2004	133
				134
				135
		3 - "The Zenny Pirate Crew Sortie!"	May 12, 2004	136
				137
				138
		4 - "Beyond the Rainbow: Part 1"	June 2, 2004	139
				140
		5 - "Beyond the Rainbow: Part 2"	July 7, 2004	141
				142
				143

External LinksEdit

• Toei Animation
• Avex mode: a complete list of DVD, CD and Log collections.

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ , ONE PIECE piece.1 VHS - Amazon
2. ↑ , - Rakuten Global
3. ↑ , ONE PIECE　Log Collection “FOXY”- Amazon
4. ↑ , One Piece East Blue Arc - Fuji TV On Demand

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