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The first season of the One Piece anime series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Kounosuke Uda. The season is adapted from the first twelve volumes of the manga by Eiichiro Oda and aired on Fuji Television from October 20, 1999 through March 14, 2001, totalling 61 episodes. The first season depicts the exploits of the pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy and as he gathers his crew and heads to the Grand Line in search of the titular treasure, the "One Piece".
In 2004, 4Kids Entertainment licensed the series for a heavily edited, dubbed broadcast. 4Kids edited the episodes for content, merged one episode and left out 18 episodes, thus reducing the season's episode count to a total of 44 episodes. The series made its U.S. premiere on September 18, 2004 on the FOX broadcasting network as part of its FoxBox TV programming block, lasting until July 23, 2005. FUNimation Entertainment later licensed the series and released the first season in four unedited and uncut, bilingual-language compilations; the first was released on May 27, 2008 and the last was released on March 31, 2009.
The season uses four pieces of theme music: two opening themes and two ending themes. The first opening theme is the award-winning title "We Are!" (ウィーアー!, Wī Ā!), performed by Hiroshi Kitadani for the first 47 episodes. The second opening, which was used for the rest of the season, is "Believe" by Folder5. The first ending theme, titled "Memories" for the first 30 episodes, and was performed by Maki Otsuki, who also performed the second ending theme song, titled "Run! Run! Run!", for the rest of the season. 4Kids used original music in their adaptation, while Funimation opted for English-language versions of the theme music pieces.

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