

I am watching "Romance Dawn", a fairly new episode of _One Piece_ , but is
just a different version of the original manga idea that was adapted into the
first anime series (at least that’s my understanding). It shows Luffy snacking
on a Gum-Gum fruit that his grandfather Garp brings home as treasure from a
raid as a Peace pirate.

This made me think, and actually visualize a scene where I recalled him eating
the fruit in a tavern with Shanks and a bunch of his crew, which I was able to
confirm with a quick YouTube search.

So what is going on?


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Why are there two different versions of how Luffy ate the Gum-Gum fruit?


Before One Piece became serialized in 1997, Oda wrote a **different version**
of the first chapter of the series, entitled **Romance Dawn** , where things
happen as per the latest episode, in which Garp is a pirate and feeds Luffy
the _Gomu Gomu no Mi_. This is just a directorial decision to show how Oda
envisioned the original start of the story prior to making the change as it is
currently in the manga.

The first chapter that was published shows Shanks - the pirate - bring _Gomu
Gomu no Mi_ to Monkey D. Luffy's hometown and it is considered the true and
intended version of the first chapter of One Piece and it keeps the intended
name, **Romance Dawn**.


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