One Piece Guide to Watch: All The Episodes & Movies

One Piece is a popular shonen anime that has been airing for over 20 years now. From a broad view, The story is based on the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a Pirate who has set out to become the Pirate King by finding the treasure of One piece. However, the actual story isn’t as simple as that. The main plot is a perfect blend of dark, mysterious, adventurous, and funny factors.

Additionally, it’s one of the only few anime with the best Worldbuilding system and the best character development. Currently, There are 14 One Piece movies, (with the new movie coming out in 2022) as well as over 20 OVAs.

The only reason it’s somewhat not gaining more popularity is due to its length. People who are willing to start the anime are reluctant because it has over 1000 episodes. Plus it gets a bit confusing with all the Movies and OVAs. Some of which are canon to the manga. Thus today we’ll take a look at the complete guide of One piece.

One piece Guide: TV series as per the Release date

Starting the anime wouldn’t be a tough deal, since all you need to do is watch the first episode and simply follow it through. The release order is all that matters. Currently, The One piece tv-series consists of 20 Seasons, and the 20th Season is ongoing. Here is the release order in which the series was made:

One piece guide: Movie as per the Release date

One piece guide: Shorts, special episodes, and OVA as per the Release date

1) Shorts

2) Special Episodes

3) OVAs

One piece Chronological Watch order

Now, the list above was a glance at the release date of the respective Television series episodes, OVAs, Movies, Special episodes, and Shorts. However, The list below focuses on the Chronological order in which you can watch the whole series. It’s distributed into 9 sagas so far, and no, these aren’t the same as arcs, as a single saga contains various arcs.

1) East Blue Saga

East blue saga is the introductory saga of One piece. It’s the base To set up the whole anime. The saga starts with the legendary flashback scene marking the day when Gol D. Rogers was executed and a golden age of pirates started. It shows How Luffy met Shanks and ate the devil fruit Gomu Gomu no mi. This saga also involves the recruitment of the first four crew members of straw hats. Namely, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Sanji. By the end of this Saga, Luffy earns a bounty of 30,000,000 berries.

The East blue saga is all about reaching the Grand line, which is supposed to be a big deal as this is where they fight against the first warlord of the sea, Mihawk. The Saga consists of 6 arcs along with some OVAs, shorts, and a movie.

2) Alabasta Saga

The second Saga of One piece focuses on the Alabasta Kingdom. A deserted island run by a warlord named crocodile. After entering the Grand Line Straw hats are targeted by an organization known as Baroque Works. Soon, they meet Nefertari Vivi, the princess of the Alabasta kingdom and they all decide to help her. While Straw hats were on their way, a war breaks out in Alabasta. In this saga, They finally meet Portgas D. Ace, Luffy’s older brother, and two Giants called Brogy and Dorry.

By the end of this saga, Luffy gained two new crew members, namely, Tony Tony Chopper and Nico Robin. He also managed to defeat a Warlord earning a bounty of 100,000,000 berries. This saga is made of five-story arcs.

3) Sky Island Saga

Sky Island Saga continues to show the adventures of Straw Hat Pirates right up in the clouds. They reach Skypiea, which is a mysterious land above the clouds. After reaching the Skypiea they encounter a potential war that might destroy the island. They eventually face the Self-proclaimed god of the sky Enel. Meanwhile, all the Warlords are gathered by the government to have a meeting to replace Crocodile as a Warlord. It contains 5 story arcs.

4) Water 7 Saga

This saga is also known as the CP9 Saga and World Government Saga. After returning from Skypiea, The straw hats had to face Aokiji, one of the three Admirals of the Navy. Robin specifically had a terrifying experience as she previously stood against this man. After escaping Aokiji, they all make it to Water 7 which is a city primarily consisting of Carpenters. As the Going Merry faced many hardships along with the Straw hat pirates it needed to be repaired.

While they all look for a shipwright they come across the Franky Family and immediately become enemies. Later, However, They all eventually become friends and Franky explains that their ship was no longer in the shape to set sail. Luffy understood the situation and decided to get a new ship. Ussop however, was against this idea. This led to a big fight between Luffy and Ussop. The fight ended with Ussop Leaving the crew.

On the other hand, Robin willfully leaves the crew as well when she is captured by CP9 and is taken to Enies Lobby. From there on various secrets about the World government are revealed. Through a series of events the straw hats become an official enemy of the World Government, Franky joins their crew and they get a new ship bidding farewell to Going merry. By the end of this Saga, Luffy’s bounty reached 300,000,000 berries.

5) Thriller Bark Saga

This is the shortest (and quite frankly, most boring) saga of One piece. After they depart from Enies Lobby, The Straw Hats reach the Thriller Bark where they face another warlord, Gecko Moria. The man who was trying to revive Oars. With the help of a skeleton-type person, they defeat Moria and Oars. But find themselves in much bigger trouble as they immediately face Kuma, another warlord strong enough to wipe down every member of Straw hat pirates.

6) Summit War Saga

The Summit War saga is also known as Paramount War Saga and Whitebeard War Saga. This marked the last saga of the first half of One piece TV series. Once the Straw Hat Pirates reach Sabaody island they come across several other pirates. All the pirates that held more than 300,000,000 berries as a bounty were categorized as the Worst Generation. Here we learn about the tragic truth of the world, where they reveal a drastic difference between the Celestial Dragons and the common citizens. Celestial Dragons have the power to do anything to anyone they want.

After bearing their inhumanity for a long time, Luffy snaps and punches one of the Celestial Dragons. This resulted in a buster call. Admiral Kizaru along with the Warlord Kuma arrive at the island. Later on, all the straw hats are separated by Kuma and were sent to different places where they could train themselves to get stronger. Meanwhile, to become a Warlord, Blackbeard offered Ace to the World Government. After getting their hands on him, the Government announced that they will hold a public execution of Ace.

This resulted in a huge war between the World Government and Whitebeard pirates. During this time Luffy was still in Amazon Lilly, trying to find a way out. Boa Hancock, The empress fell in love with Luffy and decided to him in every way possible. As soon as Luffy received the news about Ace, He became restless since he needed to rescue Ace at all costs. Since it was a war, to strengthen their side, The World government summoned all the Warlords. This included Boa Hancock. With her help, Luffy managed to sneak inside the Impel down. It’s a prison meant for highly dangerous criminals, this is where Ace was kept for the time being.

Despite all the efforts made by Luffy, he couldn’t rescue Ace from the Impel Down prison. But all hope wasn’t gone yet. With the help of the temporary alliance of Ivan, Crocodile, and Bon chan, He managed to escape the Prison and made it in time to the Warzone, A lot goes on during this saga which can hardly be covered in this synopsis. However, Towards the end of the war, Luffy sends a message through the press that’d only be understood by the Straw Hats, i.e.3D2Y. This Saga is made of five-story arcs in total.

7) Fish-Man Island Saga

The Fish-Man Island Saga is the first saga after the two-year time skip. In this saga, all the straw hats are reunited in Sabaody island to reach the New World. To do so, they had to go across Fishman Island. Here they defeated the New Fish-Man pirates and ended up making Big mom their enemy.

8) Dressrosa Saga

This saga is also called the Pirate Alliance Saga. After The Straw Hat Pirates reach the New world they find themselves on an Island called Punk Hazard. Due to a battle between Aokiji and Akainu that lasted for 10 days, the land here was divided into two extremes. One side was extremely cold and One side was extremely Hot. This Island used to be the Laboratory of Dr. Vegapunk. But now it’s the base for the production of SMILE, an artificial devil fruit made by Caesar. These were directly supplied to Doflamingo who eventually distributed them in the black market. The majority of those went to Kaido.

After defeating Caesar and Befriending Kin’emon, the straw hat pirates ally with Trafalgar law to defeat the emperor, Kaido. After Punk Hazard they visit Dressrosa, ruled by Donquixote Doflamingo. This is where they find Kanjuro, Kin’emon’s ally, and defeat Doflamingo.

After reaching Dressrosa, Luffy discovers that Doflamingo was holding a battle tournament whose winner would get the devil fruit, Mera Mera no mi. The devil fruit was previously used by Portgas D. Ace. Luffy wanted one of his crew members to get this devil fruit since he couldn’t bear to watch anyone else with those powers. At the end of the saga Straw Hat, pirates form a Grand fleet. And disperse till they need any help. After the battles in Dressrosa, Luffy’s Bounty increased to 500,000,000 berries. By the end of this saga, Luffy had already become a huge enemy to Kaido, who was the one getting affected by the destruction of the SMILE factory.

9) Four Emperors Saga

This is the ongoing saga that started with half of the straw hats entering Zou island and the other half going to Totto land to rescue Sanji. Charlotte LinLin (Big mom) invited Sanji to her tea party and eventually marry one of her daughters with the aim to form an alliance with Germa 66, i.e., Sanji’s family. However, her true intentions were to invite them to her tea party and kill them all. An Anime version of the Red wedding! The Straw Hats come in time to rescue Sanji and return to Wano Kuni where they all are reunited.

Wano Kuni is known as the land of Samurais, which was now capitalized by Orochi and Kaido. The land was slowly becoming a base for industries that made the lands uninhabitable. The river water was almost poisoned and the air was filled with Industrial fumes. To make matters worse, Kaido and Orochi experimented with the citizens. They were forcefully fed the artificial devil fruits called SMILE. The successful pieces would give the user a new power. However, the unsuccessful Devil fruit would result in a major side effect that’d make the victims laugh even when they wish to cry. Which is the cruel reason behind its name being SMILE.

In order to defeat Kaido, An Alliance of Ninja-Mink-Samurai-Pirate is formed. However, in the Whole Cake Island arc, the straw hat pirates fought against Big Mom  Leading her to Wano Kuni in search of Luffy. She lands on Wano Kuni and ends up forming an Alliance with Kaido. This starts an event of battles and the rise of Akazaya nine that were destined to fight against Orochi and Kaido when the time comes.

Meanwhile, all the Royalties from around the Globe gathered around for Levely and one of the decisions they made was to demolish the Warlord system. A three-fold war has already started in this Saga. The first war has been declared by Akazaya against Kaido. The Second war broke down between the World government and Warlords. Soon, The Third War will start between the Revolutionary army and Celestial Dragons.

Where do I watch one piece?

One piece is one of the most popular anime of all time, thus finding it online is extremely easy. It’s available on all popular platforms including and not limited to Netflix, Crunchyroll, Hulu, And Funimation.

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