Luffy's Past! The Red-Haired Shanks Appears!
From Animepedia
Revision as of 02:01, 3 May 2007
Introduction
The fourth episode of One Piece made it's premiere on the Japanese television station Fuji TV with the title Luffy's Past! The Red-Haired Shanks Appears!.
It opens with a brief introduction as all One Piece episodes do, with the voice of the narrator repeating the following:
Wealth, fame, power. The man who had obtained everything in this world, the Pirate King, Gold Roger. His final words that he said at his execution sent people to the seas. ‘My wealth and treasure? If you want it, I’ll let you have it. Look for it! I left in all in that place!’
Now men, chasing their dreams, sailed toward the Grand Line. The world now enters the Great Age of Pirates!
The first series opening them, “We Are” by Hiroshi Kitadani, then begins.
Contents |
Summary
Part A
A Jolly Roger flies on a small boat, with a clown-like face. Three pirates come across another small boat containing the mysterious orange-haired girl. While the three pirates investigate her boat, she takes theirs, and leaves them in a rain storm she predicts just before it appears.
Luffy and Zoro are still afloat in their small boat. Zoro tells Luffy that he never considered himself a "pirate hunter", and just did it to survive. Suddenly, Luffy's hat is blown away by the wind, and he utters the name "Shanks".
It flashbacks to Luffy as a boy in a bar with a bunch of pirates and a red-headed man weating his straw hat. Luffy says he wants to become a pirate, but it criticized for still being a child. A man breaks down the door to the bar, and insults the pirates within it. The men entering introduce themselves as bandits, and act hostility toward the pirates. The leader smashes Shanks's bottle of sake, and says that he has a bounty of 8 million beri on his head. After threatening the group,the bandits leave. The pirates laugh, but Luffy is upset at how they let the bandits mess with them. Angry with them, Luffy eats a fruit that the pirates had been carrying, and when Shanks tries to get it back, Luffy stretches out, and tells Luffy that he ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi, has become a rubber-man, and has lost his ability to swim.
The scene fowards a bit, and Luffy is seen tied up and being beaten by the bandits from earlier. Luffy appears to have been standing up for Shanks and his crew. The leader unsheathes his sword, but the Red Hair Pirates show up just in time.
