One Piece and Characters

One Piece

One Piece

The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy, a young man who, inspired by his childhood idol and powerful pirate "Red-Haired" Shanks, sets off on a journey from the East Blue Sea to find the titular treasure and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates. To organize his own crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy rescues and befriends a swordsman named Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the One Piece. They are joined in their journey by Nami, a navigator and thief; Usopp, a sniper and a pathological liar; and Vinsmoke Sanji, a womanizing chef. They acquire a ship named the Going Merry and engage in confrontations with notorious pirates of the East Blue. As Luffy and his crew set out on their adventures, others join the crew later in the series, including Tony Tony Chopper, a doctor and anthropomorphized reindeer; Nico Robin, an archaeologist, and former assassin; Franky, a cyborg shipwright; Brook, a skeletal musician, and swordsman; and Jimbei, a fish-man helmsman and former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Once the Going Merry becomes damaged beyond repair, the Straw Hat Pirates acquire a new ship named the Thousand Sunny. Together, they encounter other pirates, bounty hunters, criminal organizations, revolutionaries, secret agents and soldiers of the corrupt World Government, and various other friends and foes, as they sail the seas in pursuit of their dreams.

One Piece World Map

The world of One Piece is populated by humans and many other races, such as fish-men (a race of fish/human hybrids, similar to mermen and mermaids), dwarves, minks (a race of humanoid animals), and giants. It is covered by two vast oceans, which are divided by a massive mountain range called the Red Line, which is also the only continent in the world. The Grand Line, a sea that runs perpendicular to the Red Line, further divides them into four seas: North Blue, East Blue, West Blue, and South Blue. Surrounding the Grand Line are two regions called Calm Belts, similar to horse latitudes, which experience almost no wind or ocean currents and are the breeding ground for huge sea creatures called sea kings. Because of this, calm belts are very effective barriers for those trying to enter the Grand Line. However, navy ships, members of an intergovernmental organization known as the World Government, can use a sea-prism stone to mask their presence from the sea kings and can simply pass through the calm belts. All other ships are forced to take a more dangerous route, going through a mountain at the first intersection of the Grand Line and the Red Line, a canal system known as Reverse Mountain. Seawater from each of the four seas runs up that mountain and merges at the top to flow down a fifth canal and into the first half of the Grand Line. The second half of the Grand Line, beyond the second intersection with the Red Line, is known as the New World.

The currents and weather of the Grand Line's open sea are extremely unpredictable, whereas in the vicinity of islands the climate is stable. The magnetic fields within the Grand Line cause normal compasses to malfunction, making it even more difficult to navigate, and instead, a special compass called a Log Pose must be used. The Log Pose functions by locking on to one island's magnetic field and then locking on to another island's magnetic field. The time for it to set depends on the island. This process can be bypassed by obtaining an Eternal Pose, a Log Pose variation that is permanently set to a specific island and never changes.

The world of One Piece includes anachronisms, such as the Transponder Snails, snail-like animals that can be attached to electric equipment and function as rotary phones, fax machines, surveillance cameras, and similar devices. Dials, the shells of certain sky-dwelling animals, can be used to store kinetic energy, wind, sound, images, heat, and the like and have various applications.

There are 20 seasons of One Piece to date and more to come all of them are different ARC's and new characters are introduced in each season. This anime is a bit different as it is also good and it contains a cartoonist way of representation and is funny also. I also recommend watching this anime as there are more action and drama to come.

One Piece Straw Hats Crew 

Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy

Monkey D. Luffy is the primary protagonist of the One Piece series. At age seven, he admires and tries to join the pirates of the "Red-Haired" Shanks. Ridiculed and rejected, he inadvertently eats their treasure, the Paramecia-type Gum-Gum Fruit, which gives his body the properties of rubber. His reckless efforts ultimately lead him into grave peril causing Shanks to lose an arm while rescuing him. After this, Luffy gives up on joining Shanks, resolving instead to start a crew of his own and become King of the Pirates. Displeased by Shanks spoiling his grandson, Garp takes Luffy to be raised by Curly Dadan and her mountain bandits, who he strong-arms into taking him in. During Luffy's time there, he becomes a sworn brother with Garp's other ward Ace, and local runaway noble Sabo. Ten years later, and still wearing Shanks' treasured head covering, Luffy forms and captains his own pirate crew called The Straw Hat Pirates and sets sail for the Grand Line, quickly gaining infamy as "Straw Hat" Luffy. Eventually, after his strength proves insufficient to save Ace from execution, he spends two years on a secluded island, before entering in the New World, learning the use of the three colors of Haki as well as Gear Fourth from Silvers Rayleigh, before heading to the New World. Luffy is voiced by Mayumi Tanaka.

Roronoa Zoro

Roronoa Zoro

Roronoa Zoro is a swordsman who uses up to three swords simultaneously, holding one in each hand and a third in his mouth. To fulfill a promise to Kuina, his deceased childhood rival, he aims to replace "Hawk-Eye" Mihawk as the world's greatest swordsman. Traveling the seas in search of Mihawk and making a living as a bounty hunter, he becomes infamously known as "Pirate Hunter" Zoro. Eventually, he comes into conflict with Helmeppo. To prevent the harm of innocent civilians, Zoro allows himself to be incarcerated temporarily, while Helmeppo plots to have him killed. Zoro is saved from execution by Luffy in exchange for becoming his first crewman. At that point, Zoro makes it clear that he would turn on his captain if he ever stepped between him and his dream. However, Zoro grows fond of his crew and after several defeats in their defense, his priorities change and he convinces Mihawk to take him on as a student.

Nami

Nami

Adopted and raised by navy seaman turned tangerine farmer Bellemere, Nami, and her older sister Nojiko witness their mother being murdered by the infamous Arlong, whose pirate gang occupies their island and extracts tribute from the population. Striking a deal with him, Nami, still a child, but already an accomplished cartographer who dreams of drawing a complete map of the world, joins the pirates, hoping to buy freedom for her village eventually. Growing up as a pirate-hating pirate drawing maps for Arlong and stealing treasure from other pirates, Nami becomes an excellent burglar, pickpocket, and navigator with an exceptional ability to forecast weather. After Arlong betrays her, and he and his gang are defeated by the Straw Hat Pirates, Nami joins them in pursuit of her dream and acquires infamy herself as "Cat Burglar" Nami.

Usopp

Usopp

During his early childhood, Usopp is abandoned by his father, Yasopp, who leaves to join the. Then, as Banchina, his mother falls ill, Usopp starts telling tall tales, expressing his hope that his father will return and take them out to sea. Even after his mother dies, Usopp does not blame his father for leaving. Despite his cowardly disposition, he strives to become a great pirate himself. He is a gifted inventor, painter, and sculptor. In combat, he relies primarily on slingshots to fire various kinds of ammunition with great precision in coordination with a set of lies and different other weapons giving him a unique fighting style named "The Usopp Arsenal". To help the Straw Hats rescue Nico Robin, he achieves notoriety under his alter-ego "Sniper King, the King of Snipers", a hero sniper wearing a golden mask and cape. Eventually, after helping the Straw Hats liberate Dressrosa from Don Quixote Doflamingo's rule, he becomes infamous as "God" Usopp.

Usopp is recognizable for his long nose, a reference to the fact that he tends to lie a lot. Concerning his ethnic appearance in a real-world context, Oda stated that Usopp was "African", though he neglected to specify of which exactly.

Vinsmoke Sanji

Vinsmoke Sanji

A prince of Germa Kingdom, Vinsmoke Sanji (Vinsumōku Sanji) is routinely ridiculed by his genetically enhanced siblings and is locked away by his father Judge for being a disgrace. With help from his sister Reiju, he escapes and flees the kingdom after it enters the East Blue and his father permits it.

While serving as an apprentice cook on a passenger ship, nine-year-old Sanji stands up to a boarding party of pirates led by the infamous "Red Foot" Zeff. During the encounter, Sanji is swept into the sea by a massive wave. Zeff jumps in after him because of their common dream of finding the All Blue, a legendary sea, containing every kind of fish in the world. While castaways together, the pirate saves Sanji's life yet again by giving him all of their food. After their eventual rescue, Sanji stays with Zeff for several years and helps him build a floating restaurant, the Baratie. Zeff in turn makes him a first-rate cook and teaches him his kick-based fighting style. Mirroring Zeff, Sanji will never refuse a starving person a meal, and when fighting only uses his legs, to protect the hands he needs to cook. He also develops an unusual weakness for women and makes it a principle never to harm one, even if it means his death. Eventually, he becomes infamous under the name of "Black Leg" Sanji, and, while training for two years in Emporio Ivankov's Kamabakka Queendom, develops the Sky Walk), a variant of the Six Powers technique Moonwalk, which allows him to essentially run through the air. Sanji receives his own Raid Suit from his family that grants him the ability to turn invisible.

Sanji's standard appearance is to be wearing a well-fitting black suit, with a skinny black tie. His hair always covers one of his eyes and he is generally smoking a cigarette. Concerning his ethnic appearance, Oda revealed that he imagines Sanji to be of French descent, albeit in a real-world context.

Tony Tony Chopper

Tony Tony Chopper

Tony Tony Chopper is a doctor and a blue-nosed reindeer. The power of the Zoan-type Human-Human Fruit provides him with the ability to transform into a full-sized reindeer or a reindeer-human hybrid. A self-developed drug he calls Rumble Ball enables him to perform even more transformations. He was rejected by his herd because of his blue nose and that abuse when he ate the Devil Fruit that gave him his abilities. He then tried to fit in with humans, but they thought he was a monster and shot him. He was saved by Doctor Hiriluk, a quack doctor, who took him in and they worked together to create a potion that creates sakura when in contact with snow, but heartbreak again when Hiriluk falls ill with a deadly disease. When Hiriluk died Doctor Kureha took him in and taught him all about medicine. Then when the Straw Hats came to Drum island and took Chopper with them, Kureha showed off Hiriluk's potion, resulting in Chopper breaking into tears. When complimented, Chopper acts really sad and sometimes yells at the animal who complimented him to stop trying to make him happy. A running gag within the series is when other characters mistake him as a, and he angrily corrects them, pointing out he is a Tonakai (Japanese for "Reindeer").

His voice actress is Ikue Ōtani. Kazue Ikura voiced Tony Tony Chopper for episodes 254–263. In the 4Kids English adaptation, his voice is supplied by Lisa Ortiz. In the Funimation dub, Tony Tony Chopper is voiced by Brina Palencia.

When creating Chopper, Oda wanted a mascot who is both cute and very weak. While not human, Oda revealed that he imagines Chopper to be of Canadian descent, albeit in a real-world context. An IGN review of the manga praised Chopper's character as one of the best in the series and said that he was able to be both touching and funny. With Chopper's back story, Oda wanted to illustrate that one need not be blood-related to be considered family.

Nico Robin

Nico Robin

Being raised in Ohara home of the world's oldest and largest library, Nico Robin becomes an archaeologist at the age of eight. At some point, she gains the power of the Paramecia-type Flower-Flower Fruit, which allows her to have temporary copies of parts of her body, including her eyes and ears, which spring up on surfaces near her. Behind her teachers' backs, she acquires from them the outlawed knowledge of how to translate the ancient stones called Ponegliffs, which are scattered around the world. She comes to share their goal of finding the elusive Real Ponegliff, which is said to tell the world's lost history. However, the World Government finds out about these efforts and sends a battlefleet to stop them. Only Robin escapes the devastating attack that claims the lives of the island's entire population, including that of her mother. Called "Devil Child", traumatized, and with a bounty on her head, Robin lives a life on the run, unable to trust anyone. To survive, she cooperates with various pirates and other outlaws, until eventually joining forces with Sir Crocodile, leading Baroque Works with him, using the codename "Ms. All-Sunday" and becoming their vice-president. After Baroque Works falls apart, with nowhere else to go, she tags along with the Straw Hat Pirates and grows so fond of them that she gives herself up to the Government to save them. Only after they discover her motives, and declare open war on her powerful nemesis to get her back, does she come to realize that she has finally found people who will never sell her out, and becomes a part of the crew. Two years later, Robin further hones her Devil Fruit powers to the point she can create a full-bodied duplicate of herself.

Concerning her ethnic appearance, Oda revealed that he imagines Robin to be of Russian descent, albeit in a real-world context.

Franky

Franky

The son of pirate parents who abandon him at age nine, Cutty Flam, nicknamed Franky, is taken in as an apprentice by shipwright Tom, a long-horned cowfish-type fish-man who built Pirate King Gol D Roger's ship Oro Jackson and also secretly holds the plans for a devastating ancient weapon. Franky's recklessness eventually provides an opportunity for World Government agents to seek these plans. Attempting to rescue his master, Franky suffers severe injuries and only survives by rebuilding parts of his body using pieces of scrap metal, turning himself into a coal-powered cyborg with super-human strength. After gaining notoriety as "Cyborg" Franky, and to fulfill his dream of sailing a ship he built around the world, he constructs the Thousand Sunny, a brigantine-rigged sloop-of-war, for the Straw Hat Pirates and joins the crew.

Concerning his ethnic appearance, Oda revealed that he imagines Franky to be of American descent, albeit in a real-world context.

Brook

Brook

Already a pirate before the time of Roger, "Humming" Brook first enters the Grand Line as vice-captain of the music-themed Rumbar Pirates. Leaving their pet the infant whale Laboon at Reverse Mountain, they promise to return after sailing around the world. Instead, they are annihilated, with one exception. The power of the Paramecia-type Revive-Revive Fruit allows "Dead Bones" Brook to rise again and live a second life as a skeleton. Fifty years later, Brook's goal is still to fulfill his late crew's promise, and to that end, he joins the Straw Hat Pirates. He is an excellent musician, who says that he can play any instrument, although he is usually seen playing the violin. Brook can even influence people with his music to the point of making them fall asleep. While separated from the other Straw Hats, and incognito as "Soul King" Brook, he gains world fame, filling concert halls with fans. He is also a skilled fencer who uses a shikomizue (a Japanese cane sword) in battle. His reduced weight allows him to jump extraordinarily high and to run across water. Eventually, Brook learns how to use his Devil Fruit ability to leave his skeleton body and explore his surroundings as a disembodied soul.

Jimbei

Jimbei

Jimbei is a yakuza-Esque whale shark-type fish-man. A master of Fish-Man Karate, he is capable of manipulating water as if it were a tangible cloth. Jimbei can communicate with fish, an ability more usually associated with merfolk, and enlist the help of whale sharks. After growing up in a rough part of Fish-Man Island, Jimbei first joins the island's royal army and later the Sun Pirates; he becomes captain following the death of Fisher Tiger. In exchange for the World Government granting him Warlord-status, Jimbei eventually disbands the crew. He resigns the position to side against the Government during its war with the Whitebeard Pirates, the protectors of Fish-Man Island. Two years later, he turns down an invitation to join the Straw Hat Pirates, having already aligned with the Big Mom Pirates after the death of Whitebeard. After cutting ties with Big Mom, he joins the Straw Hat Pirates as the crew's helmsman. Although Jimbei is briefly separated from the crew following the events of Whole Cake Island, volunteering to stay behind and stall the Big Mom Pirates, he reunites with them in the Wano Country.

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