One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzak!
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| One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzak! | |
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| 倒せ!海賊ギャンザック (Wan Pīsu: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku) |
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| Genre | Action, Adventure, Comedy-drama |
| OVA | |
| Director | Goro Taniguchi |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Episodes | 1 |
| Released | July 26, 1998 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzak! (ONE PIECE 倒せ!海賊ギャンザック Wan Pīsu: Taose! Kaizoku Gyanzakku?) is the anime prequel to the One Piece TV series. The episode was produced for the Jump Super Anime Tour in 1998.
Animated by Production I.G, it was directed by Gorō Taniguchi and featured character settings by creator Eiichiro Oda, spanning a total of 30 minutes. It takes place after the Buggy the Clown arc and sometime before the Captain Kuro arc. The episode features a different voice cast and staff from the later TV series by Toei Animation.
Tatsuya Hamazaki created a novel version of the story.
[edit] Story
The story begins with a hungry crew of Monkey D. Luffy, Nami, and Roronoa Zoro on a small boat in the sea. Shortly into the episode, they are attacked by a sea monster and are separated. Luffy is found on an island beach by pirates, who think he has drowned. The pirates are disturbed by a little girl in an armed suit with spikes, named Medaka. She urges the pirates to give her back her father. The pirates mock her rather rudely, and make jokes about whether they should let her join her crew. Medaka, out of anger, attacks the pirates. They chase her around, running over Luffy several times, which forces the water out of his lungs and causes him to wake up. He's angry that the pirates ran over him, and punches the two pirates into a rock.
Medaka leads Luffy and Zoro (who appears without explanation) to the house of an old man, where they are offered some food. The two of them wonder where Nami is. The old man urges them to leave the village as quick as possible, before "they come". He explains that all the villagers, including the girl's father, have been taken away by Ganzak and his pirates, to work in the "Devil's Tower". Just then, a shot bursts from the tower and the shaking causes Luffy's food to fall to the ground and spill. He wants more, but is informed that there is not a single scrap more and that they gave them their own food. Luffy is disappointed, but Medaka says that there's plenty of food in the "Devil's Tower", and if he beats Ganzak and his crew, he can have all he can eat. After hearing this, Luffy rushes out of the house mindlessly, followed by Medaka and Zoro.
They sneak into the tower and see how the people are forced to work with threats to the lives of their families. Medaka charges in without thinking. She is caught by the same two pirates from before, but they quickly change their tone when Luffy pops up and demands food. Luffy and Zoro are cornered by the armed pirates. Then, surprisingly, a pirate is lowered down on a rope and kidnaps Medaka.
Luffy chases after them, to find out that it is Nami in a mask. Ganzak, with the appearance of a sea monster, has two crab claws on his shoulders. Ganzak grows selfish, arrogant, and angry whenever he is called a crab. Nami says she is fine with him now, because he is "loaded". Ganzak urges Luffy to give up while he's still alive, but he refuses. Ganzak charges toward him, using his crab arms as weapons. Luffy is then swallowed by the sea monster, but pushes its mouth open and gets out. Then Ganzak slams him into a rock, but he is unaffected, yet when he prepares his attack, Ganzak shoots some pink substance on him, which immediately immobilize him.
Meanwhile, the pirates courting Zoro urge him to give up, or they will kill the village people. Medaka's father sees this and says that they will stand up against Gaznack.
At a banquet, Zoro, Luffy, and Medaka are in chains. Gaznak wonders on their price; hearing this, Nami cannot wait for the auction. Ganzak insults Luffy and mocks him by stepping on his hat. Luffy demands Gaznack to return the hat, it being a gift from Shanks.
An explosion then takes place. The people from the village run out and start throwing dynamite, which they were forced to transport against the pirates. While the islanders and pirates fight, Nami goes and unlocks Medaka. Before Nami can unlock Luffy or Zoro, Medaka runs away with the keys, saying "I hate pirates".
In the meantime, Gaznack defeats the rebellion and shoots at Medaka's father, saying he has "no need for wild livestock", but the bullet bounces from Medaka's helmet, as she jumps in. Gaznack prepares to kill her and her father, but then jumps aside from Luffy's rubber punch. He simply shouts and presents his armoured battleship. The islanders are stunned as to what they have been making. The ship then fires from the cannon and destroys part of the island. Luffy and Zoro decide to go to the ship and fight. Medaka wants to come too, but her father does not allow it. Despite this, she still jumps on as Luffy pulls himself and Zoro to the ship.
While fighting with Luffy, Ganzak's armor deploys various projectiles, yet none of these hit Luffy. He gets angry and fires a chain toward Luffy, tying him up. He prepares to cut his head off, but Medaka, in her armor, jumps in the way and shields him. Her helmet flies off and she falls to the ground. Luffy, shocked, grows so angry that he breaks free of his chains. He then grabs Gaznack, spins him around and slams him to the ground. After Gaznack is down, Medaka gets up and shows Luffy that she is okay. Meanwhile, Zoro fights down the pirates and moves to the sea monster, but is beaten by the dynamite-throwing islanders.
Gaznack gets to his feet, refusing to recognize defeat. He announces that he is going to be the Pirate King, yet Luffy beats him away and he crashes together with the projectile he fired on the island.
Luffy, Nami, and Zoro are seen in a small boat, Nami disappointed that Gaznack didn't have any treasure, while Luffy enjoys the heavy stock of food. Medaka, without armor, then runs to the boat (without the armor, Luffy did not recognize her at first) and gives Luffy a life preserver, saying that now he'll be okay, even if he can't swim. Medaka then calls him a hammer, while Luffy struggles unsuccessfully to get the life-preserver off. While he does so, the life wheel is presented to our view from another side, showing the Japanese words for "Thank you" on the bottom of the wheel.
So they depart, Luffy with wheel and all, while shouting that they will venture to the Grand Line. Medaka runs after them and encourages Luffy to become a great pirate.
[edit] Similarities
- It can be pointed out that the story holds some similarity to the Captain Morgan Arc.
