When Do Luffy and Shanks Meet Again

"Luffy'south Past! The Carmine-Haired Shanks Appears!" is the fourth episode of the One Piece anime.

Brusque Summary

A view into Luffy'south by is shown as we are introduced to his hero, the human who gave him the straw lid, Shanks. Shanks and his coiffure stand up to a group of bandits in the town as young Luffy is taken by the bandits' leader and thrown into the water, where he cannot swim due to his Devil Fruit. Shanks saves Luffy's life.

Long Summary

The episode opens with 3 pirates from Buggy's coiffure that come upon Nami stranded in a boat. She asks them to relieve her in substitution for payment, just when they climb onto her boat for her treasure, she steals their ship, leaving them stranded in the ocean. Meanwhile, Luffy and Zoro are hanging in their gunkhole, drifting at sea, and both of them wonder why they exercise not accept any navigating skills. Suddenly, yet, the gunkhole is rocked and Luffy'south straw hat blows off of his head, fluttering around through the air. Luffy aimlessly reaches for information technology, and Zoro catches it before it lands in the water. Zoro then inquires about the hat's importance, which triggers a flashback showing Luffy's past.

Young Luffy is in a bar filled with pirates, the crew of Shanks. Shanks makes fun of Luffy for being a child, though Luffy thinks he's a human. Yasopp remarks that he has a kid most the same age as Luffy. A bandit, named Higuma, and then kicks downwardly the door and walks into the bar, ordering some sake. The bartender, a girl named Makino, says that all of the sake has been sold to the pirates in the bar. Shanks offers him a canteen just Higuma smashes it, claiming he is a wanted human with 8,000,000 on his caput. He storms out of the bar, and all of the pirates first to laugh. Luffy gets aroused that Shanks did not fight back confronting Higuma, and in a huff, he spots a purple fruit in a pocket-size box, the Gomu Gomu no Mi, and eats it. When Shanks notices this he holds Luffy upside down and orders him to spit information technology out, only information technology's besides tardily and the effects have already set in as Luffy's torso stretches. Shanks tells Luffy that he merely ate the Gomu Gomu no Mi, a Devil Fruit, and now he is a rubber human and will non exist able to ever swim again.

Later, Luffy finds himself in trouble when he gets attacked past Higuma and his bandits outside. Makino sees this and runs to the mayor for help, who yells at the bandits to stop. Higuma decides he will impale Luffy, but and so Shanks and his crew go far. One of the bandits points a gun at Shanks' head and orders that he stay still, but with insane speed, Lucky Roux shoots the brigand through the caput and kills him. Anybody gasps in shock as Shanks explains that they are dangerous pirates. More bandits charge at Shanks, simply Benn Beckman steps forward and swings his rifle like a social club, taking them all out. Beckman quips that if the bandits were truly serious nearly fighting them then they should accept brought a battleship. Higuma, frightened, throws downwards a fume bomb and makes his escape and taking Luffy with him. He flees out to sea in a boat, where he throws Luffy out into the water. Luffy, having eaten the Gomu Gomu no Mi, cannot swim and is virtually to drown.

As Higuma laughs at Luffy's plight, a big body of water monster comes upward behind him and devours him in one bite. The body of water monster so goes for Luffy, but Shanks stops the sea monster equally it takes a bite, and with i await drives the brute away. Luffy clutches Shanks and starts crying since Shanks' arm was bitten off by the animal. Shanks replies that information technology's fine, equally long as Luffy is safe. Subsequently, Shanks and his pirates pack up their ship, gear up to leave. Luffy decides he will go a pirate on his own and become on a great adventure. Shanks gives his harbinger hat to Luffy and tells him to return information technology when Luffy becomes a great pirate and they see again. The pirates then sail away as the flashback ends.

Back on their gunkhole in the present, Luffy spots a pink bird in the sky and decides to eat it. He launches himself at it using Gomu Gomu no Rocket, but the bird grabs his head in its nib and flies abroad. Zoro paddles later on it in a fury and comes upon the pirates that Nami left stranded earlier. They try to take over the boat, merely Zoro gives them a chirapsia and they end up having to row instead. The pirates mention that they are members of Buggy'south crew and that Buggy has eaten a Devil Fruit, making him one of a kind. The bird, by this time, has flown over a nearby boondocks. In the town is Nami, seen fleeing from Buggy's pirates with a map of the Grand Line. Buggy orders that the bird in the sky to exist shot down, and when information technology does, Luffy comes hurtling downwards. Nami and Buggy'south pirates watch in shock as Luffy lands in front end of her, and he stands upwardly, saying it was an interesting experience, catastrophe the episode.

Characters in Order of Appearance

• Tightrope Walking Funan Bros
• Nami
• Monkey D. Luffy
• Roronoa Zoro
• Shanks (flashback)
• Lucky Roux (flashback)
• Benn Beckman (flashback)
• Yasopp (flashback)
• Makino (flashback)
• Higuma (flashback)
• Woop Slap (flashback)
• Lord of the Coast (flashback)
• Kaicho Pinky
• Superhuman Domingos
• Buggy

Anime Notes

• The episode based on the first affiliate of the manga, but the ending bit showing Luffy leaving Foosha Hamlet is snipped out in the anime accommodation until Episode 504. In this episode, we are introduced to Shanks and his crew.
• This was the first advent of Haki. It was used by Shanks, who used it confronting the Lord of the Coast.
• In the manga, Luffy cutting his face and created a scar nether his lower left middle to prove to Shanks he is a existent man only this is non shown in this episode.
• In the manga, before Higuma shows up, Luffy was already eating the Devil Fruit and Shanks did not find out until he grabs Luffy's arm and watched it stretch. In the anime, after Higuma left, Luffy found the Devil Fruit in a breast and started to swallow information technology. Shanks defenseless him and turned him upside down to make him spit it out, catastrophe up with his trunk falling to the flooring, with Shanks all the same property his legs.
• In the manga when Shanks lost his arm, it was dripping blood, merely in the anime, it does not.
• This is the kickoff episode of the Orange Town Arc.
• In the Odex dub, all references to booze were inverse into milk. All shots of beer were digitally edited to be white and in one example, the keg Lucky Roux was drinking had the word "MILK" digitally painted onto it.

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