Now, it's unclear if the first episode of Netflix's One Piece series will be a retelling of the Romance Dawn arc or if the episode title is simply an homage to the series' start. In fact, it was eventually reprinted in One Piece Red: Grand Characters. While the Romance Dawn one-shot wasn't called One Piece at the time of its original publishing, it was essentially adopted as the origin of One Piece. IT'S HAPPENING!!!!!! #OnePiece /Xmp9eHAK9G- Netflix Geeked September 3, 2021 Romance Dawn is also the first arc in the anime, told over the first few episodes.
Luffy, who, to make things short and spoiler-free, does some very pirate-y things.
Published as a one-shot written by One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda in the Shonen Jump 1996 Summer Special, Romance Dawn is about a young pirate named Monkey D. That's because the episode title, Romance Dawn, seems to be hinting at the origin of One Piece.