One Piece The Movie: Dead End no Bōken

Dead End Adventure
Dead End Adventure
Directed by	Konosuke Uda
Written by	Yoshiyuki Suga
Starring	Mayumi Tanaka; Kazuya Nakai; Akemi Okamura; Kappei Yamaguchi; Hiroaki Hirata; Ikue Ohtani; Yuriko Yamaguchi
Music by	Kohei Tanaka; Shiro Hamaguchi
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	March 3 2003 (Japan)
Running time	95 min
Country
Language	Japanese

One Piece The Movie: Dead End Adventure (ONE PIECE THE MOVIE デッドエンドの冒険,, ~Deddo Endo no Bōken) is a 2003 Japanese animated film directed by Konosuke Uda and written by Yoshiyuki Suga. It is the fourth animated movie in the anime/manga series One Piece. It was released on March 3, 2003. Desperate for cash, the Straw Hat Pirates enter a secret race between pirate crews known as the Dead End Competition. There, they must battle against powerful people, including the bounty hunter who wants to kill Gasparde and a climatic battle with Marine-turned-pirate Captain Gasparde.

Plot

The movie starts with the crew (as of the Jaya Arc) eating in a pirate filled bar. A mysterious man talks to the bartender then presents him with two 100 Belli coins, the man is then taken by the bartender through a door.

Nami gets suspicious because she "smells money" and asks the bartender what is going on, after a little coaxing he tells them there is a great but very dangerous opportunity through the door. As the crew enters the mysterious door they are surprised to see it is the opening to a large tunnel, the bartender leaves them with one last hint "the password is 2 100 Belli coins"

As the crew approaches the ending of the tunnel an old man approaches, Nami shows him the coins and he lets them through. Inside they find themselves in a large cave filled with pirates, there flags proudly displaying there crew.

Nico Robin finally recognizes the place (she was here before with another pirate crew) as the site of the Dead End Race, a very dangerous anything goes sailing competition which the winner can win up to 300,000,000 Belli. The crew is introduced to the favorites to win that year, two giants, a Fish-man and former rival of Arlong, and the favorite to win General Gasparde, a former marine general who deserted after killing his crew. While Nami registers the crew for the race, Luffy get involved in a fight against Gasparde's crew along with an infamous bounty hunter by the name of Shuraiya Bascùd, as well as meets Gasparde himself which of course ends on bad terms.

The next morning, the crew sets sail along with many other pirate ships for the parade start which involves sailing off a waterfall, fighting off other pirates, and navigating sharp turns before even reaching the ocean, luckily the Straw Hats manage. However while checking the ship, they find a stowaway, a boy by the name of Anaguma whose come to kill them for the bounty though find that's impossible after witnessing the crew's strength and power and thus sails along with them for the race.

After a few more encounters involving another pirate ship and sea kings, the Straw Hats arrive at Partia, the supposed finish line of the race. However it turns out to be a marine stronghold that quickly sinks any incoming pirate ships. Robin points out the Log Pose to be fake and unscrewing the plaque on the device proves her theory. Luffy realizes Gasparde rigged the race and the crew manages to escape the stronghold and track down Gasparde's ship using Chopper's nose.

Meanwhile, on Gasparde's ship, Shuraiya, the bounty hunter from earlier tries to attack Gasparde but first has to contend with Needles, Gasparde's first mate. Shuraiya manages to defeat him but realizes that he is no match for Gasparde who has eaten a devil fruit known as the Ame Ame no Mi and can't be sliced or punched. Just when Gasparde about to finish him off, the Straw Hats arrive on the scene and Luffy makes his way on board Gasparde's ship, very angered about what the former marine did. Shuraiya tries to interfere but Luffy manages to knock him out to keep from getting in the way. Luffy and Gasparde proceed to fight while Anaguma reunites with his grandpa and tries to get him to leave the ship. Instead he sends Anaguma on ahead while he claim he has one last thing to do.

Luffy's fight with Gasparde isn't going well but Sanji realizes something and goes to look for flour, coming across Anaguma's grandfather in the boiler room (where he worked) and realizes what he's about to do. Regardless, Sanji goes topside, and gives Luffy the sacks of flour before rejoining the other Straw Hats. When Anaguma realized that his grandpa is still on Gasparde's ship, he begs the Straw Hats to go back but Zoro knocks him out and reveals that Anaguma is actually a girl. Meanwhile back in the ship, Grandpa overloads the boiler causing it to explode and sink the ship. Luffy manages to stay on the sinking remains as does Gasparde who shows Luffy that a cyclone is closing in on their position and that whoever wins can escape the ship and storm via lifeboats. The two strike one another with Luffy actually managing to hit him due to the counter-effects of the flour on Gasparde's syrup powers. Luffy then throws the remaining flour sack at Gasparde, coating him with it, and proceeds to pound on him until he launches him into the air with his Gum Gum Bowgun.

Gasparde manages to grab onto the ship and tries for one more attack by covering himself in spikes and flying at Luffy. But Luffy uses the Gum Gum Bazooka to throw him into the cyclone. Luffy then collapses from exhaustion but is saved by Anaguma's grandpa along with Shuraiya. As they head for the nearby island, Grandpa reveals that Anaguma was adopted and her real name is Adelle Bascùd, Shuraiya's little sister whom he thought was dead. Despite the awkward reuniting, the two come to accept each other.

The Straw Hats close in on the real Partia as the winners of the race but Marine ships led by Lieutenant Drake suddenly appear and go after them, forcing them to flee from the island and forfeit their prize money. They let Adelle, Shuraiya, and Grandpa off then wish them good-bye before sailing off with the marines on their tail. Despite not getting the prize money (much to Nami's disappointment), the Straw Hats continue on for their next big adventure.

Cast

Trivia

Eiichiro Oda did the character designs for Shuraiya and Gasparde.
Sam-San can be seen at the beginning of the movie for a short period of time.
This is the first feature-length One Piece film. The previous three films were less than an hour long and played as part of a double-bill with other anime movies. With this release, the movie franchise had reached the point where it did not need to be paired with another property in order to be successful.
Both giants who compete in the Dead End, use the same laughs that Dorry and Broggy from Little Garden arc

External links

Anime News Network
Template:Ja icon One Piece "Dead End Adventure" Site Promotional site for Movie 4.
"ワンピース　デッドエンドの冒険 (Wanpiisu Deddo Endo no Bōken)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-07-21.