One Piece | |
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Season 10 Thriller Bark | |
No. of episodes | 45 |
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Original network | Fuji Television |
Original release | January 6 December 14, 2008 | –
Season chronology | |
The tenth season of the One Piece anime series, the "Thriller Bark Chapter", was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Munehisa Sakai based on Eiichiro Oda's manga by the same name. It deals with the meeting and recruitment of Brook in a mysterious mist. There, the crew comes across Thriller Bark captained by Gecko Moria, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea who uses shadows to create a crew of zombies.
The season aired on Fuji Television from January 6, through December 14, 2008, lasting 45 episodes. Thirteen compilations of the season has been released so far as of July 7, 2010[1] The first DVD release for the season was released on October 7, 2009.[2] Beginning with episode 380, the Japanese analog broadcasts are presented in a letterbox format in 16:9.
The season uses two pieces of theme music. The first opening theme, titled "Jungle P", is performed by 5050. The second opening theme, starting with episode 373 onwards, is a cover of the series' first opening "We Are!" (ウィーアー!) by Hiroshi Kitadani, as "We Are! (One Piece Animation 10th Anniversary ver.)" (ウィーアー! 〜アニメーション ワンピース10周年Ver.〜, Wī Ā! Animēshon Wan Pīsu Juushūnen Ver.), performed by TVXQ.
The Funimation English dub of the first 12 episodes were originally going to be released in May 2014, but was delayed until September to coincide with the release of the Funimation dub of One Piece Film: Z.