GeneralZ03's One Piece TAS otherwise known as OPTAS started September 22, 2009. It began with the episode special, "The Kidd and Law Show" which was a compilation of episodes 402 and 403 with that parts with Kidd and Law in them. Then on October 30, 2009 the first official episode of OPTAS was upload to Youtube. The first episode was episode 402 of the original series. The reason for this was because all previous One Piece Abridged started for episode one of the original series and stopped a few episodes later. GeneralZ03 thought that was boring and decided to start at a point where all the characters had been established. Also due to how it took 4kids forever with the beginning episodes and how much the were overplayed. Also now that Funimation has been redubbing the series they have star