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“Luffy's crew battles pirate Ganzack to rescue enslaved villagers and Nami from his island fortress.”
One Piece: Defeat the Pirate Ganzack!
ワンピース 倒せ！海賊ギャンザック
6.69
7,100 rank · 46,108 viewers · 16 favorites
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
Shounen
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Synopsis
Luffy's crew battles pirate Ganzack to rescue enslaved villagers and Nami from his island fortress.
While Luffy and his crew of Zoro and Nami are starving on their small boat, they are attacked by a large monster. Nami is taken away, while Luffy and Zoro wash up on shore. There they meet a young girl, Medaka, and learn of the sad history of the island. The evil Pirate Ganzack has taken away all the men in the village and enslaved them, including Medaka's father. Now Luffy, Zoro, and Medaka must infiltrate Ganzack's base in order to rescue the villagers and Nami. (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 15 sampled reviews
6.7
/10
What 15 viewers settled on.
82%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 6
σ 1.81
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.81 · split reception
The polarity gap
3.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 4.0
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Score over time
↓ 3.27
Running avg · Dec 2012 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “This is the very first piece of one piece animation. The voices are somewhat different, the faces are very different and the animation is anything but splendid, however the story that is told is...”
- 8 “The animation holds up well. It's smooth. It does a good job capturing how the manga looked in the first 30 or so chapters. Everyone is so expressive and the battle scenes were so well animated!...”
- 7 “The very first One Piece animation has a runtime of 28 minutes. This was a very fun OVA, that I just happened to stumble upon while scrolling for any movies to watch. This OVA was made by a...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 20%
Long · 13%
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- Format 1 × 28′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 28m all episodes
- Aired Jul 1998 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0438 catalog
Produced by
- Shueisha Producer