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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, Munehisa Sakai and Hiroaki Miyamoto, the series premiered in Japan on Fuji Television on October 20, 1999. As of September 26, 2010 (2010 -09-26)[update], 468 episodes of the series have aired, spanning thirteen seasons. One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy, who gained supernatural abilities by eating a magical fruit, and his ragtag crew of heroic 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.

In 2004, 4Kids Entertainment licensed the series for an English-language broadcast. This dub was heavily edited for content, as well as length, reducing the first 143 episodes to 104.[1] The series premiered in the United States in September 2004 on the Fox network as part of the Fox Box block, and later premiered on the Cartoon Network as part of the Toonami block in April 2005. In December 2006, 4Kids cancelled production due to financial reasons.[2] 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.[3] The new dub of the series aired from September 2007 until it was canceled in March 2008.[4] In Australia, Cartoon Network resumed airing new One Piece episodes in November 2008, starting with episode 170,[5] lasting until January 2009 following episode 195.[5] The first unedited, bilingual DVD box set, containing 13 episodes, was released on May 27, 2008.[6] Similarly sized sets followed with eleven sets released as of July 6, 2010 (2010 -07-06)[update].[7]

The series uses thirty different pieces of theme music: thirteen opening themes and eighteen closing themes. Several CDs that contain the theme music and other tracks have been released by Toei Animation. After experimenting with an English dubbed version of "We Are!", 4Kids decided to create its own theme music with "Pirate Rap" voiced by Russell Velasquez. 4Kids created four vocal versions of the rap as opening themes, one of them unused, and two instrumental versions as ending themes before they lost the rights.