One Piece manga began to be serialized in 1997, and after Oda's unremitting efforts, it finally became a big hit, and then adapted into an anime and broadcast in various countries around the world, causing heated discussion.
I believe that the earliest batch of sea fans should be the majority of the manga party, but later as the network became more and more developed, the number of animation parties who had only watched the animated version slowly increased.
Today we will talk about the problem of One Piece animation.
Do you remember what the earliest One Piece anime you watched looked like?
Some people may say: Isn't that the first thing? Luffy's story with Shanks in the village.
Some people will say: it is the first theatrical version of "Golden Island Adventure"!
Well, maybe these plots are the enlightenment animation of many people, but it is interesting that neither the first episode of the TV version nor the first theatrical version is the first One Piece animation in history.
Perhaps many people have not seen it, the first animation adapted by One Piece is "Down with One Piece Strong Sark"!
As mentioned above, the One Piece manga was serialized since 1997, and the ONE Piece TV version we see now was adapted in 1999; the first theatrical version of "Golden Island Adventure" was released in 2000.
However, "Down with One Piece Strong Sark" was put on the screen in 1998, that is, one year after the manga was first serialized, and it is indeed the first step taken by One Piece in the field of animation!
The anime is only 28 minutes long, almost like an episode of the TV version, the storyline is simple, the production level is not high, it looks like a test of waters - the producers want to see if the story of One Piece can create a golden sign in the field of animation.
But for this anime, Oda was very excited at the time, to know that at that time, Oda had just serialized One Piece for a year, and was still in the process of growing from an obscure little manga artist to a manga master, he was very excited about his work to adapt the animation, and he also wrote a special book about it in a single book:
Say you're crying with excitement:
And excitedly released many autographed original drafts, including Johnson himself, his ship, and so on:
For Oda now, spending a lot of money to make a theatrical version should be commonplace, but a 28-minute animation that year was enough to bring him to tears.
When you think about it, it's really emotional.