One Piece: Romance Dawn Anime Debuts First Trailer

One Piece: Romance Dawn Anime Debuts First Trailer
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One Piece's anime turned 20 years old this year, and the purchase has been celebrating in a pretty huge way. Along with the start of the Wano Country arc of the series, and the big anniversary film One Piece: Stampede seeing many fan-favorites return to the anime, another project is celebrating by going way back to the origins of the series. A new anime special based on one of Oda's early inspirations for what would eventually become One Piece will soon be coming our way. Scheduled for a release October 20th in Japan, the new special will be adapting Romance Dawn, the prototype one-shot Oda worked on before it became One Piece.

People  were assuming that the second Romance Dawn prototype would be adapted for the new special considering the first was already done. But this was unconfirmed until the first trailer for its upcoming premiere highlights many elements from the second one. 

The first version of the prototype already got its own anime adaptation years ago as part of a special celebratory OVA made for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump's 40th Anniversary. With the second version, fans can see one of the more recognizable early versions of the series play out in the anime. This includes a much different look for Luffy than we'd eventually see in the full series, and especially true for Nami.