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, named 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.[1] The series
uses 37 different pieces of theme music: 19 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,[2]
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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] Beginning with the sixth season, the Funimation dubbed episodes aired
on Cartoon Network's Toonami block from September 2007 until the block's
cancellation in March 2008.[7] In Australia, Cartoon Network resumed airing new
One Piece episodes in November 2008, starting with episode 170,[8] lasting until
January 2009 following episode 195.[8] The first unedited, bilingual DVD box set,
containing 13 episodes, was released on May 27, 2008.[9] Similarly sized sets
followed with 31 sets released as of July 2015.[10][11] Episodes had began
streaming since August 29, 2009.[12] Funimation's uncut dub later resumed airing
on Adult Swim's revived Toonami block from episode 207 onwards from May 18,
2013.[13]