The Original One Piece Anime
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Before Toei's adaptation, another studio took a stab at an animated One Piece for the 1998 Jump Super Anime Tour. Although it has been mostly forgotten with time, it gives an interesting look into how One Piece could've looked if it was adapted by another team.
So join me today as we dive into this niche OVA - One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!
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Extra tidbit - Zoro's voice actor for this movie (Wataru Takagi) would return to the series later to voice Bellamy.
Ganzacks voice actor (Norio Wakamoto) voiced Cell in Dragon Ball Z
Ikuya Sawaki (Medaka's father and narrator) would play Admiral Fujitora.
And Takkou Ishimori, the VA for Skid (old dude smoking the pipe) would go on to voice Sengoku.
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Woah
Putting some Dead Leaves in there, i see you're a true OG
From the girl, i had to think a little bit more on corbi (The pink haired boy) In his early seeing, he is kinda the same. XD Just more coward.
There is nami in the girl too.
So in jaya and dressrosa luffy es actually punching zoro? Lmao
I CAN'T UNSEE THE EARS OMG WTF HELP I WON'T SLEEP AT NIGHT ANYMORE
Lots of people don't realize how superior many of the 90s anime's animations were
@@rifter4478Nope. No nostalgia here it's just better. But people like you always have to claim something is nostalgia instead of just admitting some older things were superior.
@@rifter4478 No one said they were. He clearly said MANY.
@@rifter4478most new style animation is so boring
@@rifter4478go watch kite and come back and said it’s only nostalgia
@@JesusChrist2000BC you’re all biased as hell and hypocrites.
It’s called opinions. Move past it is
I don't know if it's only nostalgia but there's always this "love" that you can feel while watching old anime.
Yes I absolutely love watching the older episodes of One Piece and a lot of other animes. The animation back then was so simple and heartwarming to look at. I don’t know what it is, but it just is so nice. I do think nostalgia is tied to it though. Watching older shows always remind me of my childhood and simpler times and I love it so much even if it’s a show I just started watching a couple months ago.
@@shiny_selenium6448 I don't really think it's nostalgia. Anime had much more vibrant colors and distinct shades during the peak of the cel era that made the animation really pop.
Truly.
true i didn‘t grew up in that time period but i watched the old dragon ball movies and they had a certian charm
Classic animation was drawn and colored by hand, so of course it would look better. Today everything is done digitally, which looks soulless most of the time.
If you ever want to see One Piece in that classic retro anime style, this is the OVA to watch.
i fucking love it sm
It looks better.
Some of the old One Piece movies too
Reminds me of yugioh and alot of other anime that was different starting out hellsome cartoons were too
It looks like god damn Pokémon
Forever wishing for a proper blu ray remaster of this OVA. This is a piece of animation that certainly deserves it.
The actual forgotten relic
He's really living up to the name.
doooooood... nice
This is the actual One Piece itself
This is just the one piece movie it’s not actually the original one piece
@Project_415 yep the one peice is a tape roll with this on it
I love the character animation in this, its very rare to see these characters being so expressive with their movements unless they’re fighting so seeing this is a real treat
What about wall-e?
Whoa.. that animation is so nice. Toei is getting better lately, but it would have been nice if the One Piece anime could have had this level of animation quality from the beginning.
Toei released it weekly, and this was a movie. Unless you want each episode to take 6 months to come out you're better off sticking with the original
Ya i wish we had anime from 2043 now but sadly thats not how time works.
Mate this is a movie, one piece has weekly releases, I think you can figure out why the animation is a bit better than old one piece
@@privatefeetpics7415 Ok but OP isnt an anime of excellent standards compared to other weekly late 90s animes.
@@carlosaugusto9821 I still liked the old style tho. It was something totally different. This style in the ova looks like the generic 90s style animation. I also loved how one piece's animation changed gradually and is where it's now
I love this 90s style of One Piece. So nostalgic!
Well it's more of a sailor moon style, one piece is already in a 90s style
Sailor Moon art style just makes everything better it seems
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Bro took the "forgotten relics" name seriously
But honestly this is why I love your channel. Keep it up king 👑
0:03 that has to be racist some how
How he literally has monkey in his name and he's clearly not black
Oi
I think I actually like Kagawa’s style better than Koizumi’s
Smoke weed everyday
@@xUnino2001 no no he’s right
One piece’s designs a iconic yes but I think kagawa’s design looks excellent and grew on me instantly
@@ShadowDancer1000 if i see weed i got to light it
for me is better he's style th-cam.com/video/GoHJ1sdaYCE/w-d-xo.html
@@joethegecko5100 oh come on guys have none of you ever seen og Trigun or og Hunter X Hunter?
I do love how they managed to get the director of this OVA to return to direct the One Piece movie Red. In a poetic way, it feels like a moment straight out of One Piece.
Ok but one piece red is trash
@@jacopom.7477 boring opinion 🥱
Cool
@@jacopom.7477 animation wasnt trash tho
Also I'd love to see you do more stuff on One Piece. They've had a lot of very notable animation during the Wano arc. Some episodes are escpecially well directed as well as a ton of spectacular animation
I haven't started the OP anime so I have no clue as to when I'll ever get to Wano... But if it's something as important as the appearance of Gear 5 I might cover it, but that depends on what other projects I'll be working on at that time.
There is a rumour online, and I unfortunately can't source this as anything more than a rumour, that Toei specifically hired some animators from Warner Bros to help with Gear 5.
@@stalhein62 those animators are not specifically from Warner bros, just some foreign animators that have worked with Warner bros on some of their previous projects. I mean this isn’t the first time we’ve had foreign animators work on the one piece anime
@@UnofficialStudios One of my favorite ones is Vincent Chansard. That man is incredible
@@crestofhonor2349 yea the fact that he’s been able to consistently put out top tier work on the anime is incredible enough already, now he’s officially joined the team on his own accord and shifting his focus on the anime, which is really exciting
It looks so much better than the older episodes of the show. It’s kind of disappointing that we didn’t get this level of detail and such slick animation in the early episodes of the show
I actually would love to see the whole show get kind of a remake eventually, with no filler and a worthy animation, like an oficial one pace but better.
Truly.
It would've been impossible lol. The OVA took a long time to make and that level of quality, would not be possible for a weekly show.
@@julioalvarado7548 there are the remastered movies of the first 3 sagas
@@julioalvarado7548Hello hello hello 🎉🎉. Guess whose wish is coming true?
The way they animated Luffy is so appealing my goodness!
This was actually the first animated adaptation of One Piece that I ever watched. I’ve been reading the manga recently, and I saw Oda’s sketches for the OVA’s characters within the pages.
what's wild is most fans don't know this ova exists. it's very hard to find any old movies and OVAs in the west, especially for me when I was 16 in 2010 trying to find anything one piece since it wasn't ok crunchyeill yet
So Hisashi Kagawa's involvement in the special's designs technically already gave One Piece a Toei connection thanks to his Sailor Moon background (he only did character design work in the 2nd and 3rd movies but did key animation and / or animation direction in all 5 seasons of the original series). Neat. He has shared lots of custom artworks based on the series he worked on in social media and even released an artbook. He's definitely very skilled, probably SM's best anime artist too.
Also, 98' surely had to be an odd and rough time for Toei when it comes to their blockbuster shows; as Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon have both just ended the year before while One Piece and Digimon were still a year away. Because of this I don't just wonder how things could've turned out if OP stayed at IG, but also if Toei's 98' Yu-Gi-Oh series did succeed and the series didn't migrate to NAS / Gallop shortly afterwards. A lot of things might've been different.
It also gave it that Studio Cockpit connection! Their involvement was pretty small in comparison to previous Toei titles like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z but you did have one of their best, Keisuke Masunaga come in for a couple of movies (who's oddly absent here?). The biggest title Toei would've had tho during 98 would've been their Dr. Slump reboot, but that had pretty weak ratings.
Interestingly there was a lot of staff overlap between those two series, Koizumi is probably one of the biggest ones doing character designs for the 99 Slump movie.
I have to you could get it but I’m just saying I don’t knowingness what I just need last 😮 😢
It's minor, but it's nice that the male characters also have light reflecting off their eyes sometimes, which I don't think happens in the series. It gives them way more life imo
It might just be me but Kagawa’s character designs kind of resembles dragon balls art during the namek saga. Also it’s pretty cool to see Yutaka Nakamura worked on one piece, like my other artistic inspirations sushio and Hiroyuki Imaishi.
The older animation looks insanely good. I never liked the actual being so colorful with weird propotions
I genuinely prefer this style more than the current one like its genuinely prettier to me
Pretty yeahhh
I agree.
90s animation is better
I disagree
Gotta say I like the character design and animation for this one a lot better than the main show.
Pre time skip one piece was something else 😢 and that ova should be rescanned and released
Anime in the early 90s Late 80s will always look crisp and beautiful...
I really like the style older one piece had, It really made it stand out and solidify itself from other anime at the time. I remember having a cel from the ova but sadly lost it during a move in
Mannn thats a pity, I've seen hardly any cels from this ova online. Do you remember what scene it was from?
@@forgottenrelics1197 Yeah, It was a cel of luffy from the first and ganzack encounter. Around the 11:14 minute mark of the film
I prefer the anime bc it resembles the manga
Damn
@@Sputterbug I forgot everyone I was going to do it looks nice 😊 on it but it’s just like
It's giving me Yu Yu Hakusho/Hunter X Hunter(Old) vibes which is amazing. What could've been if they continued with that kind of style.
The best One Piece has ever looked.
Whole cake>>>>
@@rubberman3226 im literally on whole cake rn episode 839 can confirm the animation is c r i s p.
@@rubberman3226 i think wano will forever be best for me. sure its cliche, but not because it looks newer or "better". the thicc lines just make a whole world of difference to me. i LOVE the thick uneven lines they started using in wano. its similar to demon slayer. idk they just add a different feel to the show, it really tingles my brain.
@@newp0rt the thick lines and the animation is the only good thing from wano the characters look wack af robin aged backwards for some reason her head is rounder and her eyes are bigger zoros head also got squarer and his hair is shorter big mom also looks like some old woman instead of like a witch/monster from before
@@rubberman3226i swear they make robins eyes so big sometimes she looks like an alien. Its like they all just forgot what she is supposed to look like
I love toei and how they did one piece but this looks insane. the pacing and animation look much better along with a sharper artstyle. It is still one piece but I kinda wish this studio did it lol
interesting to see how two different artists can depict an artstyle so different to eachother, yet both are equally faithful to the manga. V cool.
12:47 Gear 5 foreshadowing damn
I like how the women look like women and dont all have Double Fs or whatever Toei does to make them look ridiculous.
Thats not Toel. Thats Odas style. Their just making it Manga accurate.
Toei sometimes exaggerates Oda's style.
The OVA animation looks really good. I would watch some one piece in this style
Wow I loved this video, I never knew this OVA existed, you got yourself a new sub.
aye thanks :)
Japanese animation is very beautiful. Respect to the hard working animators in Japan!
So weird seeing One Piece animated in cells, because OP was one of Toei's first shows colored digitally (the 90s Gegege no Kitaro was the first), it's obvious that they have a considerable budget for this OVA
It's also interesting that this is one of Taniguchi's first works, I've only seen Infinite Ryvius and Code Geass, but I also heard good things about s-CRY-ed and Planetes
he also had doctor slump in 1997 and digimon
and magical doreimi in 1999 but before the arrival of one piece
infact it's not the only one piece media used celluloid
there is also the first one piece movie which was released in march 2000 and before that the 1997 doctor slump movie was in celluloid
I love the colors
I didn’t know there was an original one piece anime in 1998, glad to experience it. :)
What's always odd to me is that with productions like these it seems like everybody knew just how big One Piece was going to be before it hit the Arlong arc, which most people agree is when it cemented itself as the next great manga series. What information were insiders privy to that they knew to take gambles with such a new series? The more i look into early One Piece the more i find that people in the industry "just knew" it was going to be a multi billion success even before it hit its stride
Sometimes you just know
Which is weird
wow, i just discovered this OVA about 3 weeks ago and this just got recommended to me today
Oh no, now I can't unsee the ears. I had never realized they sat too low on the characters heads until now!
Scamboli the goat fr. Really good video though I had no idea this existed.
Its pretty impressive how the designs look very different but the same with little details being changed, very similar to what the movie 6 did with the designs
Really love these, how they did they’re own thing rather than following 1 to 1 what Oda did, its kinda like Mike Mignola wanted his animated movies to look different from the comic
i lowkey prefer this ova artstyle...only other one i really prefer than this is wano's
I wish more anime adaptations would change up their art styles when adapting. Keep it recognizable but also make the art style look better in animation. Sometimes manga art style just doesn’t look good in animation. It makes sense why they don’t, but I think a lot of series could benefit from it. This definitely shouldn’t be most as a lot of manga art styles translate well to animation.
I understand, but I feel like changing one pieces artstyle is a no-go.
@@ProjektTaku it just doesn’t work in animation. It’s like specifically designed for a flat manga. This art style update works well in animation
@@thomasffrench3639 tell that to wano.
@@ProjektTaku still think the same. Any art style can be well animated. I just think that changing it up can make it better. It makes sense for a weekly series to be faithful in art style, so its no big deal
When that does happen, manga puriests complain. 😂
i like this old style more than the current one
Oda did multiple versions of Romance Dawn the one shot of ONE piece and in two of them there is a Nami like character who hates pirates. In one she is closer to Nami in age and I believe her name was Syrup and the other she looks like Nami but as a little girl similar to the one in this movie. The story is likley taking parts from those one shots
Ahhh interesting, it very likely that was the case
@@forgottenrelics1197 there are several movies and TV specials with kid who HATES PIRATES so as you watch the anime you'll see it a few times for anime original stories lol. There's also an anime adaptation of the version of Romance Dawn that has Syrup in it, I believe it was another Jump Festa movie.
Tbh the original one piece designs make me feel like there similar to pokemon red and blue anime design.
The animation is mazing! However Kazumi is way better at adapting Oda's charming artstyle to an anime. But I absolutely love the color, animation, and sound design in this film. A favorite detail is that luffys movements actually sound like real rubber. The artstyle is attractive but doesn't have the emersion into One Piece's cartoony world due to the grounded drawings.
I still believe the animation in one piece baron omatsuri was the best it has ever been animated. Wano's animation is great yeah, but the art direction for baron omatsuri translates one piece's... cartoonishness the best I've ever seen. it has good fighting animation when it needs to, but the art style lends perfectly to what one piece was always about, which is the lightheartedness (and despair, sometimes) of adventure.
I would love for there to be another One Piece Film that is basically "OK Director, you can whatever the hell you want, it's none canon after all".
It's crazy that movie came out in 2005 yet its character/colour design still feels so fresh and modern. Timeless stuff.
Could not agree more
bc its a movie and not a weekly anime
Bro at the start of the video the first question you said has Become a Reality....
THE ONE PIECE by _ _ _ Studio
I know aye! Funny enough Wit Studio was founded by Production I.G, the same studio behind this OVA. Who would have thought...
I literally watched this and heard aot and went,
"wait a minute..." is this fr?
Would be fun to also make videos like this for Black Clover and Land of the Lsutrous as well, given they also had mostly forgotten PVs with very different styles.
🐐🍀
Mid Clover
@@eriktharead8071 12 years old kid
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Didn’t realise how often these animators would work with each other on various projects
Since when did IG animate aot? I thought that was WIT and MAPPA
That animation style is a lot better
bro watching two piece 💀
I'd actually watch one piece if the art had stayed that way 😬
Why does 1998 look better than what we got?
Because it was an OVA
@@amuroray9115which one?
it's a one off OVA, not a weekly tv anime with harsher deadlines like what toei had to deal with
wow, old school shaded zoro is exactly what i love in animes
Never watched One Piece because I strongly dislike the art style. I like this, though.
wow that looks so cool. i would love to see some fanart in this style of more recent designs in one piece
The original had more soul
Looks way better than the shitty PPT that is One Piece (until the latest season)
yea no
0:29
So this is just the One Piece version of the 1999 Hunter x Hunter.
How does the old one look wayyy better than the new one?
Old:
Real handcrafted work
New:
Computer generic trash
@@theyuki-fay-multiverse9086 both are hand-drawn and hand-crafted. The reason this OVA looks consistently "better" is because it's a one-time OVA, not a year-round TV production like Toeis.
Liked simply because of the Space Dandy mention.
God I'd love to see Sanji and Usopp in this style too.
wow, a different studio did a better job than toei, what a surprise.
they did not
If they had to release episodes weekly like Toei does it'll be on par in terms of quality. Don't get me wrong, Toei can be unjustifiably shitty at times, but this particularly is just an unfair comparison.
@@SymphoniaFly this animation is genuinely worth waiting for. 1 episode every month or 2 is fine with me
@@koolaidninja6628 Good for you, but not for most. Especially for something as long as One Piece.
Nah, the original still better
One piece was horribly ruined by toei animation, the animation might be good now after 1000 episodes but the way they stretch everything out each episode makes it un watchable for me. And I’ve been caught up since 2013.
Kinda interesting, the director of this OVA his the same director of One Piece: Red. At least, he worked in the first adaptation and in the most great Box-Office movie of One Piece.
Massive coincidence; I started One Piece a few weeks ago and saw on a list to watch this movie after the Orange Town arc without knowing anything else about it. Then a few days later you drop this video about it!
1:23 why is sanjis ears so low it's near his mouth. bro can he hear him self eat loudly 😂😂
12:48 - I can't believe Gear 5 was spoiled 24 years before it showed up in the manga!
This is literally just One Piece but it's the old Hunter x Hunter
Wish they had stuck with this style. Looks so much better than what we now have.
Honestly. I think the more grounded look of the OVA is better than the actual anime
I kinda do too in some ways. Its a fun take!
Wished they continued this style.
No
Nuh uh
Haha if you just started one piece, congratulations and have fun, you will be in for the ride of your life!
Damn. That genuinely would have been way better if they stook with that studio, IMO. They made I feel much more... Realistic in a sense that would make the wacky stuff to come even more terrifying and abnormal
I would have loved to see how they would have drawn and animated things like big mom, white beared, etc.
I feel like their take on it would have perfectly captured the level of fear each of them could produce just off their sheer size
Flamboyant devil fruits like Enels or aces would have been beautiful to watcj
Its an ova. No way a weekly production could look like that. And the art style from that era is nowdays outdated.
@@choco_coconutoutdated? People would EAT IT UP
Once you mentioned Cowboy Bebop i instantly believed Yutaka Nakamura is the goat of action animation.
To this day its still my 1# Anime pick and it still looks way better then most modern Animes
God these fights are so clean
At least the original one had an ending
bruh what, this looks like fire. the original timeskip looks so bad compared to this, i dont even like the bland colours of it anyways
Return of the king 👑
Ive never noticed that the ears are lower than normal. I cannot unsee it.
Bro did a BlackPill analysis on their jaws LOL
Lol that was better animation than the current animation which rely on colorful and bad pacing . And the fantards really believe that the new one piece weekly episode has good animation, but turned out a consistent cash cow episode
o had no idea this even existed, so cool man, "forgotten relic" for a reason ahaha, great job
i don't go here but honestly i think i might watch this ova just for the animation alone. i've always admired that old retro style for anime, it's so gorgeous- this and the jojo's bizarre adventures ovas are at the top of the list of things i want to watch lol
on that note, there is a toei animated sonic ova that was turned into a movie but even then it's still. SO cool to watch. it's not beautiful more than it is that it just has a Really Cool Style- the one Tyson Hesse (? don't remember if i'm getting him mixed up with someone else or not but iirc Tee Lopes worked on the OST) was trying to emulate, mainly in Mania, for reference
and i know it's sort of the point because so many different animators worked on this, but it's mainly so reminiscent of fullmetal alchemist and naruto for me which i find really cool too!!!
its crazy how much soul the 1998 anime has vs what we got later
2:45 Namy looks like a very manly drunken pirat-capt'n!!!!🤣😂😭
Defeat the Pirate Ganzak is legendary.
Facts.
is it just me or does 1998 One Piece remind me of 1989’s Dragon Ball
it uses both celluloid animations
where the anime produced uses computer animation
yoooo im acutally shocked there was a older adaption of the anime?!
7:07 I thought it was my phone ringing
I just decided to watch Film Red after watching this video and I had to pause the movie at about 55:32 when I noticed Ganzack made a cameo appearance (in character design only) at a random bar. Now I understand the connection ;) but also, I would have definitely NEVER remembered what he looked like without this video jogging my memory.
i would actually watch one piece if it were animated in the style of the OVA, leagues better imo
We want Forgotten relics TO TALK ABOUT ONE PIECE MORE! I DEMAND IT!
Maybe I would of actually finished one piece if it stuck that animation. I just can't get into it. after reaching the time skip I just can't get back to it- the designs of how they looked always bothered me and ones I finally got used to I gotta get used to even more out there designs- the really rough jokes- idk. just ain't for me. The games are chill though.
13:09 signature Yutaka Nakamura, and damn, this was before Soul Eater. he started to develop that line art flashy style. nice. good vid man! Didn't realize there was all that layering of elements as well. wow. what an animator.
Oh yeah i saw this OVA during the one piece anniversary stream actually wity my best friend. He's a huge one piece fan so this was a cool piece of history