One piece: Dead end no bôken (One Piece IV Movie: Adventure of Dead End) (One Piece: Dead End Adventure) (2003)

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In order to gain money, the crew of the Going Merry enter the Dead End Race, a dangerous anything goes sailing competition. On the starting island of the race the crew is introduced to that year's favorite, General Gasparde, a former navy general who deserted after killing his men. A subplot in the… More In order to gain money, the crew of the Going Merry enter the Dead End Race, a dangerous anything goes sailing competition. On the starting island of the race the crew is introduced to that year's favorite, General Gasparde, a former navy general who deserted after killing his men. A subplot in the movie involves a cabin boy named Anaguma on Gasparde's ship, who in order to save Biera, the boiler man, is allowed off the ship to claim the bounty of whichever pirates he chooses. As fate would have it, he picks the Going Merry as his target. A bounty hunter named Shuraiya Bascùd is also introduced as the 'Pirate Executioner', and seems to have a dark past involving Gasparde, and at the climax of the film, goes head to head with both Needles and Gasparde himself, a battle that Luffy interrupts and ultimately finishes, once and for all.