Hello, One Piece Podcast website readers! William here; it’s been a while! After a long break due to real life circumstances, I’m back to bring you this little gem from One Piece‘s now nearly twenty-year-long history.

In 2000, One Piece marked its second anniversary and celebrated the first full year of the One Piece anime adaptation. To celebrate the turn of the century, One Piece author Eiichiro Oda drew a special little 4-panel manga strip in a special one-off Weekly Shonen Jump offshoot magazine called e-Jump. This magazine included drawings from other manga artists such as Hunter x Hunter‘s Yoshihiro Togashi and one-off manga stories from authors such as Akira Toriyama, Makoto Niwano amongst others. This e-Jump magazine also included a special CD made for the Japanese PlayStation 2 with interviews and more interactive content!

We at the One Piece Podcast do not endorse nor recommend scanlations, which you can read here. However, since this 4-panel has been out for seventeen years and has never seen light outside of the magazine it was originally published in way back in January 2000, I thought it might be okay to have this little 4-panel translated and lettered. Given the theme of the year 2000, what year could be more fitting to publish something like this than on One Piece‘s 20th anniversary?

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So, without further ado, enjoy this small blast from the past with a attempt to translate author Eiichiro Oda’s strip from Japanese to English. As a fair warning, I am no Stephen Paul. Please enjoy:

Don’t forget to check out the One Piece Podcast’s many other previous articles from One Piece’s long past or to read the many amazing editorials written by the great editorial writers here! Do not forget to countdown to 19 July: the twentieth birthday of the manga we all love: One Piece!