The fifteenth season of the One Piece anime television series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto. The season was broadcast in Japan on Fuji Television on October 2, 2011 to December 23, 2012. Like the rest of the series, it follows the reunion of Monkey D. Luffy and his Straw Hat Pirates after two years later of completing their training sessions to rejoin their adventures. The first of fourteen DVD compilations was released on December 5, 2012, and the last one was released on December 3, 2013.
The main story arc, called , adapts material from the 61st to the end of the 66th volumes of the manga by Eiichiro Oda. Two years have passed since the summit war at Marineford and Ace and Whitebeard's deaths, Luffy and the Straw Hats reunite at Sabaody after completing their training sessions. From there, they head off to Fish-Man Island. However, they end up facing Hordy Jones who plots to use a coup d'état to take control of Fish-Man Island. The final four episodes contain an anime original story arc, called , which serves as a prologue to the concurrently released One Piece Film: Z.
Only a single piece of theme music is used for this season. The opening theme, titled , is performed by Hiroshi Kitadani.
In October 2024, it was announced that the anime series would go on hiatus until April 2025 for the "Egghead" story arc, and that a remastered and re-edited version of the "Fish-Man Island" story arc would air in the show's timeslot during the break. __TOC__
Episodes
One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga One Piece Log: Fish-Man Island Saga, also known in Japan as Special Edited Version - One Piece: Fish-Man Island Arc, is a 21-episode remastered and condensed version of the "Fish-Man Island" story arc which ran from November 2024 to March 2025 in place of the TV anime's regular broadcast, which was on hiatus from October to April. "We Go!" performed by the Straw Hat Pirates is used as the opening theme song for the first nine episodes, while the same song performed by Hikakin & Seikin with Monkey D. Luffy (Mayumi Tanaka) is used from episodes 10 to 13, Hololive's Shirakami Fubuki, Houshou Marine and Tsunomaki Watame with Maki Otsuki from episodes 14 to 17 and Hololive English's Takanashi Kiara and Hakos Baelz and Hololive Indonesia's Kobo Kanaeru with Hiroshi Kitadani for the rest of the series. "Sailing" performed by Be:First is used as the ending theme song.
Home media release Japanese + Avex Mode (Japan – Region 2/A) Volume Episodes Release date Ref. 15th Season Gyojintō-hen piece.1 517–520 December 5, 2012 piece.2 521–524 January 9, 2013 piece.3 525–528 February 6, 2013 piece.4 529–532 March 6, 2013 piece.5 533–536 April 3, 2013 piece.6 537–540 May 8, 2013 piece.7 541, 543–545 June 5, 2013 piece.8 546–549 July 3, 2013 piece.9 550–553 August 7, 2013 piece.10 554–557 September 4, 2013 piece.11 558–561 October 2, 2013 piece.12 562–565 November 6, 2013 piece.13 566–569 December 3, 2013 piece.14 570–574 December 3, 2013 One Piece Log Collection "Fishman Island" 517–535 August 28, 2015 "Shirahoshi" 536–554 September 25, 2015 "Noah" 555–573 December 25, 2015 "Punk Hazard" 574, 579–589, 591–594 July 22, 2016 Toriko x One Piece Collaboration Special Kanzenhan 492, 542 October 26, 2012 One Piece Film Z Rendō Tokubetsu-hen Z no Yabō 575–578 May 24, 2013
English In North America, the majority of the season was recategorized as "Season Nine" for its DVD release by Funimation Entertainment. The Australian Season Nine sets were renamed Collection 43 through 47. + Funimation Entertainment (North America – Region 1/A); Madman Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand – Region 4/B) Volume Episodes Release date ISBN Ref. NA AUS & NZ UK & IE Season Nine Voyage One 517–528 June 20, 2017 August 16, 2017N/A ISBN N/A Voyage Two 529–540 August 15, 2017 October 4, 2017 ISBN N/A Voyage Three 541, 543–552 October 10, 2017 December 6, 2017 ISBN N/A Voyage Four 553–563 March 20, 2018 May 9, 2018 ISBN N/A Voyage Five 564–574 May 15, 2018 July 4, 2018 ISBN N/A Season Ten Voyage One 575–587 June 9, 2020 October 5, 2022N/A ISBN N/A Collections 22 517–540 September 25, 2018N/A July 6, 2020 ISBN N/A 23 541, 543–563 November 13, 2018 September 7, 2020 ISBN N/A 24 564–587 February 2, 2021 November 29, 2021 ISBN N/A
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