A quick trip to Prime Video and away you go. After adding the first two seasons of One Piece to its catalog in 2024 — as well as several movies — the platform will remove them by the end of the month. This is exactly the first 135 episodes that will no longer be available. Therefore, fans who want the opportunity to know and understand this phenomenon, get them quickly.
Released in 1999, two years after the first volumes of the manga written by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece is a series of all entries. In 2015, it even entered the Guinness Book of Records as the “Most Printed Series in the World” with over 320,866,000 copies sold.
Today, there are 21 seasons, over 1,000 episodes (including one missing), and revelations that keep fans on the edge of their seats. It immerses us in the world of piracy from Monkey D. Through the character of Luffy, a young boy who dreams of finding the legendary treasure and becoming the new “pirate king”. After eating a Devil Fruit, he has the power to allow him to achieve this. Now he needs to find a crew to go on an adventure!
One Piece: Why it’s time to start
Despite being one of the most read, watched, and commented anime in the world, One Piece took on an extra dimension in 2023 with a live-action adaptation produced by Netflix. This series allowed many viewers who were not familiar with the genre to discover its rich, abundant and funny world. And some were interested enough to watch the anime afterwards.
I’ve watched over 1000 episodes of One Piece in the 6 months since the Netflix series, so I recommend the experience
One Piece is more than ever a monument to popular culture. And it’s not for nothing. If the fans have been there since the beginning, it’s because the manga has taken unexpected directions over the years.
One Piece is not just the story of a young boy who wants to become a pirate king by capturing a legendary treasure. Manga and anime mostly talk about dreams, the will we put into achieving them, freedom (especially against an oppressor), but also racism. It’s a solidly political and human work, where everyone is represented at their true worth (before the transvestite-only country of brilliance is created). Over the years it has become an international and intergenerational work.
But it also improves the heart. Between the infectious smile of its protagonist, the friendship that binds all members of the Vogue Merry crew, their victories but also their defeats, this is a true timeless adventure that the series offers.
So yes, 135 episodes might seem like a lot. But they’re only 20 minutes long, and most importantly, some of them can be skipped (they’re fillers, they only serve as filler when the anime starts to catch up with the manga). But the first two seasons leave Prime Video, first of all, the quality of the animation may surprise you, because as we remember, the episodes were broadcast from 1999 to 2002…
One Piece leaves Netflix on December 31st. Cross-subscribing to the ADN platform will let you see what happens next.
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