One Piece

One Piece is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title written by Eiichiro Oda. Produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Konosuke Uda and Munehisa Sakai, the first eight seasons were broadcast on Fuji Television from October 20, 1999 to April 30, 2006. One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy whose body has gained the properties of rubber from accidentally eating a supernatural fruit, and his crew of diverse pirates, the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy's greatest ambition is to obtain the world's ultimate treasure, One Piece, and thereby become the next King of the Pirates.
The series uses 42 different pieces of theme music: 24 opening themes and 18 closing themes. Several CDs that contain the theme music and other tracks have been released by Toei Animation. The first DVD compilation was released on February 21, 2001, with individual volumes releasing monthly. The Singaporean company Odex released part of the series locally in English and Japanese in the form of dual audio video CDs.
In 2004, 4Kids Entertainment licensed the first five seasons for an English-language broadcast in North America. This dub was heavily edited for content, as well as length, reducing the first 143 episodes to 104, and thus receiving large amounts of controversy and fan backlash. One Piece made its U.S. premiere on September 18, 2004, on the Fox network's Fox Box programming block, and also began airing on the Cartoon Network's Toonami block in April 2005. In December 2006, 4Kids cancelled production due to financial reasons.
In April 2007, Funimation Entertainment acquired the license of One Piece from 4Kids and would use their in-house voice cast in preparation for the series' DVD releases. Beginning with the sixth season, the Funimation dubbed episodes aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block from September 2007 until March 2008, airing episodes 144 to 167. In Australia, Cartoon Network would resume airing new episodes in April 2008, and aired the remainder of the season from November 2008 to January 2009, form episode 170 through 195. The dub would later return to Toonami, now broadcast on Adult Swim, in May 2013. Adult Swim's broadcast began with episode 207 and continued until the show's removal in March 2017, after episode 384. The series would eventually return to the block in January 2022, beginning on episode 517.
The first unedited, bilingual DVD box set, containing 13 episodes, was released on May 27, 2008. Similarly sized sets followed with 31 sets released as of July 2015. Episodes had begun streaming since August 29, 2009
==Episodes==
Season	Season	# 	Premiere 	Finale
 	1 	61 	October 20, 1999 	March 14, 2001
 	2 	16 	March 21, 2001 	August 19, 2001
 	3 	14 	August 26, 2001 	December 9, 2001
 	4 	39 	December 16, 2001	October 27, 2002
 	5 	13 	November 3, 2002 	February 2, 2003
 	6 	52 	February 9, 2003 	June 13, 2004
 	7 	33 	June 20, 2004 	March 27, 2005
 	8 	35 	April 17, 2005 	April 30, 2006
 	9 	73 	May 21, 2006 	December 23, 2007
 	10 	45 	January 6, 2008 	December 14, 2008
 	11 	26 	December 21, 2008	June 28, 2009
 	12 	14 	July 5, 2009 	October 11, 2009
 	13 	35 	October 18, 2009 	June 20, 2010
 	14 	60 	July 27, 2010 	September 25, 2011
 	15 	62 	October 2, 2011 	December 23, 2012
 	16 	50 	January 6, 2013 	January 12, 2014
 	17 	118	January 19, 2014 	June 19, 2016
 	18 	36 	June 26, 2016 	April 2, 2017
 	19 	109	April 9, 2017 	June 30, 2019
 	20 	143	July 7, 2019 	present
== Episodes ==
* Seasons 1-8
* Seasons 9-14
* Seasons 15-present