Opening Narration

Opening narration is a short monologue at the beginning of a series that briefly explains the series premise. Narrations have been used since the beginning and have been seen in a number of anime. Starting with Episode 284, One Piece began using opening narrations following each opening song.
==Versions==
===Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack===
From One Piece - Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack
Roger is seen before execution followed by a closeup of his face, a treasure map and the Straw Hat's jolly roger.
===The Movie===
From One Piece: The Movie
====Woonan's Opening====
A fleet of pirate ships with the same jolly roger are shown along with a man sporting said flag, Woonan. Next a night scene where piles of gold treasure are seen bright at sea with a silhouette of Woonan. Then an island is shown while gold rains down as it fades out ending with a shot of a treasure map.
====Roger's Opening====
Starts with a remixed of the We Are! narration followed by a reshot of Shanks leaving his straw hat to Luffy ending with a shot of the Straw Hat Pirates.
===Luffy's Execution===
From Grand Battle!''
===Gold Roger's Legacy===
From Episode 284 to Episode 396
A newsreel of Roger's execution starting with a pan of the execution platform followed by a pan of Roger about to be executed ending with a closeup of Roger's face. Then a fleet of ships set out to sea ending with a shot of a ship's helm.
====Romance Dawn Story====
From One Piece: Romance Dawn Story
Roger walks up the execution stand, and the executioners position their weapons. He declares his final words and a crowd cheers, transitioning into the pirate flag of the Red Hair Pirates and zooming out to show a fleet of ships with all different jolly rogers.
====Episode of Luffy====
From Episode of Luffy
Starts with the scroll part of We Are! narration reanimated followed by a shot of jolly rogers. Then a shot of Luffy setting out to sea ending with a shot of Sea Kings next to a sailing Thousand Sunny.
===Episode of Chopper===
From Episode of Chopper Plus: Bloom in Winter, Miracle Sakura
A newsreel of a battle with pirate ships followed by a closeup of a jolly roger. Next a newsreel of the Blackbeard Pirates attack on Drum Island with a map of the Grand Line and Red Line. Then a stack of wanted posters flips away while Devil Fruits float up from the sea before dagger strikes Luffy's poster. Ending with a pan of the Straw Hat Pirates with their jolly roger in the background followed a newsreel of the Thousand Sunny and medical supplies.
===The Great Pirate Era===
From Episode 397 to Episode 516.
A lantern is lit on top a map surrounded by treasure, a pistol, a dagger and a compass. Next to it are wanted posters of the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy then stretched across the sea on to the deck of the Thousand Sunny with the other Straw Hats. The Sunny then fades into the map when the lantern goes out.
===New World===
From Episode 523 to Episode 752
Opens to a shot of the helm of a sunken ship followed by a group of fish around a Log Pose where one is chased by a big fish only to be eaten by a bigger fish itself ending with a zoom out to reveal sunken pirate ships. Luffy is then seen by the other Straw Hats swinging from the Thousand Sunny.
===Laugh Tale===
From Episode 753 to Episode 803
A pan over the world with images Laugh Tale, Poneglyph writings and Gol D. Roger. Next a shot over a stormy sea with flashes of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Revolutionary Army, Marines, Worst Generation and Four Emperors. Ending with the Straw Hats introduced one by one on the Thousand Sunny where Luffy is on the figurehead.
===Levely===
From Episode 879 to Episode 890
A shot of an eclipse over a fleet of pirate ships followed by a flashes of the Four Emperors, Seven Warlords of the Sea, Revolutionary Army and the Worst Generation. Then a shot of Luffy and the Straw Hats followed by shots of New Marineford, Pangaea Castle and a fade in of the Levely meeting room. Ending with shots of the Levely representatives from Arabasta, Ryugu, Sakura and Dressrosa kingdoms on their to Mary Geoise as the dawn breaks over the sea.
===Red===
From One Piece Film: Red
==Trivia==
*The early openings of the Sea of Survival: Super Rookies Saga and the The Final Sea: The New World Saga start with their own opening narration.
**The one from We Are! is based on dialogue from Chapter 1.
**The one from Believe is based on dialogue from Chapter 100.
*The Gold Roger's Legacy narration has been used more than any other.
**In the FUNimation dub, the dubbed dialogue from the first and seventh opening was re-recorded, besides Gold Roger's dialogue.
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