The main character of this anime is called Monkey D. Luffy, a rubber human, who have eaten the rubber fruit (aka: gomu gomu no mi) of devil fruit by accident when he was young. Because of an incident of him when he was young with Shanks, one of the four emperor (aka: yonkou), Luffy dedicated his life to be the pirate king. After leaving his village, he started out to look for members for his pirate crew and aimed to enter the greatest sea, Grand Line, to look for the greatest treasure, One Piece.
Ep. 1-100:
The story started by having Luffy, drifting in the sea after leaving his village and met with a storm in the sea. Having no navigation skills, he hid himself in a wine barrel which was later picked up by sailors of a cruise. Coincidentally, a female pirate, Captain Alvida, attacked the cruise, demanding all valuables and food. Some of her crew members mistook the barrel as a big barrel with tons of wine and decided to open it when Luffy, who was taking nap in the barrel woke up. There, Luffy met a tiny, short guy called Coby who has wanted to be a marine but has accidentally got caught to be a slave in Captain Alvida's pirate ship. Luffy decided to help Coby to escape and started his first fight. During the fight, he heard about a pirate hunter, Zoro and decided to make Zoro to be his crew member. After defeating Captain Alvida, Luffy brought Coby together and came to an island, ruled by Captain Morgan (a marine captain). He heard about the news where Zoro was being kept in prison by the marines for helping the villagers and decided to help him to escaped. He attacked the marine base and freed Zoro. Successfully, Captain Morgan went down and they started out their journey when Luffy accidentally got caught by a bird and was brought to an island terrorized by Captain Buggy who turned out to be a friend of Shanks. Luffy and Zoro fought the Buggy Pirates and got Nami as their navigator. Later, they met Usopp, who was Yasopp's (Shanks' crew member) son. During their stay on the island, they discovered the plan of Captain Kuro to kill Kaya-ojousama (Usopp's friend) and decided to help Usopp in defeating him. Out of gratitude, Kaya gave the Straw-hat Pirates a caravel, known as Going Merry. Due to this, Luffy gained a new pirate ship and a new member, Usopp, as their ship's sharpshooter. Setting out to sea, they coincidentally met Johnnie and Yosaku (Zoro's friends while being a pirate hunter). They learned the lesson of having nutrition deficiency and decided to get a cook as their crew member when Johnnie suggested them to visit the sea restaurant, Baratie, and Luffy accidentally destroyed the roof of Baratie which led to him having to worked as waiter to pay off the bills. There, they met Sanji, one of the best cook in East Blue. A pirate, Don Krieg, after entering Grand Line and was completely annihilated appeared and demanded the cooks in Baratie to give them their ship. At the same time, Nami got caught in her problems and set off secretly with Going Merry when Luffy ordered Zoro and Usopp to catch up with her and bring her back. However, one of the shichibukai, Hawk-eye Mihawk, appeared and sliced through Don Krieg's ship. Zoro was amazed and having the dream of becoming the best swordman in the world, he challenged Mihawk but lost. Usopp, bringing the injured Zoro and Johnnie, followed Nami while Luffy stayed to defeat Don Krieg as trade to pay off his bills. After defeating Don Krieg, he got Sanji as his crew member when Yosaku appeared stating the need of Luffy's help as the enemies are going to be very powerful. Luffy, Sanji and Yosaku set out to the island where Nami was as both Zoro and Usopp was caught by the enemies, Arlong Pirates. Learning that Nami was threatened by the pirates, Luffy and the crews decided to help in freeing her. They got into a fight and successfully brought back Nami as their navigator. With only four members, they set out to Grand Line but stopped at Loguetown (the town of beginning and ending), which was the town where the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, was born and executed. In the town, Luffy was nearly killed by the marine headquarter captain, Captain Smoker, but was saved by his father, Monkey D. Dragon, without knowing his identity. On their way towards the Red Line, which separated the Grand Line with the four seas (North, East, South and West Blue), they met Apis (a girl who ate the whisper whisper fruit) and Ryuuji (a sennenryuu). Deciding to help Ryuuji to get back to his birth island, Lost Island, while being chased by the marines, the Straw-hat Pirates got into a fight with the marines (battalion 8). After the incident, they came to Red Line and successfully met Laboon (a whale), Crocus (keeper of the Twin Cape, a doctor), Mr. 9 and Miss Wednesday (Princess Vivi of Kingdom of Arabasta). Crocus told them the way to sail in Grand Line, a sea of magnetism where the compass would not work here, by using the Log Pose. The came to the first island of Grand Line, Whiskey Peak, an island filled with pirate hunters of a secret criminal organization Baroque Works. Zoro himself defeated the 100 pirate hunters on the island when he and Luffy got caught in misunderstanding and started fighting each other while fighting the officer agent of Baroque Works, Mr. 5 pair. After sorting out the problems, they decided to help Vivi in sending her back to Arabasta when they stopped on a pre-historic island, Little Garden. They met Brogy and Dorry, captains of Giant Pirates and warriors of Elbaf, and fought with both Mr. 5 and Mr. 3 pair, who were ordered to assassinate Luffy, Zoro, Nami and Vivi for discovering the secret of the Baroque Works Boss' identity. By defeating them, they successfully got the Eternal Pose to Arabasta when Nami was bitten by a bug, which brought about the sickness, Kestia. The crews stopped on an island, Drum Kingdom and Luffy fought the Kingdom's King, King Wapol. With this stop on the island, they gained another new crew member, Chopper, a reindeer who ate the hito-hito no mi and inherited the greatest medical skills. They continued towards Arabasta when they met Mr. 2 on the way. Upon arriving on Arabasta, Luffy met his step-brother, Portgas D. Ace (son of Portgas D. Rouge and Gol D. Roger, second commander of Whitebeard Pirates), who was searching for the traitor of his unit, Marshall D. Teach (aka: blackbeard). Having the same destination, Ace traveled with the Straw-hat Pirates through the desert.
Glosarries:
- Yonkou = four emperors, consist of four pirate crews that ruled the second half of the Grand Line as if they were Kings.
- Shichibukai = seven pirates who were acknowledged by marine headquarters by paying a certain amount of tribute to the marines. For other pirates, they were dogs of marines but were extremely powerful.
- Twin Cape = the cape after exiting Red Line and entering Grand Line.
- Log Pose = a clock-like compass with only a needle, adapting to each island's magnetism and showed the route to the next island.
- Eternal Pose = similar to Log Pose but the magnetism would never change.
- Baroque Works = criminal organization controlled by one of the shichibukai, Crocodile. Having the rank of Mr. 0 (boss/ Crocodile) to Mr. 13. All work in pairs except for Mr. 2. Higher rank indicating greater strength in a battle. the first 5 agent known as officer agent have the power of the devil fruits.
- Hito-hito no mi = fruit of human-human
- Whitebeard Pirates = one of the yonkou and the captain, Edward Newgate, was said to fight in par with the previous pirate king and was said to be the greatest pirate after Gol D. Roger's death.
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