Straw Hat Chase is the eleventh animated feature film in the One Piece series and the first to also use computer animation. It was directed by Hiroyuki SatÅ and was released in Japan on March 19, 2011, and was released to DVD and Blu-ray on July 20, 2011. It was double billed with the Toriko film Toriko 3D: Kaimaku! Gourmet Adventure! The film features Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Schneider and Buzz, and the music was written and performed by the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.
Luffy desperately tries to find his missing straw hat, and after extensive searching usopp discovers that an eagle has it. Luffy and the entire Crew proceed to chase it. While searching for Luffy's hat, Chopper discoveres an old man lying half dead on a ship. While Luffy continues chasing the eagle and eventually crashes it into a marine base, the old man named Schneider wakes up. Chopper noticed that he had been mumbling the name Bazz in his sleep, and asks him who it is. Schneider tells chopper that Bazz was his nakama and that he was a dog that ate the "tori tori no mi: model eagle". He tells chopper that he told Bazz to steal Monkey D. Luffy's hat and then he could come back. He thought that telling Bazz this would force him to abandon Schneider, because he didnt want Bazz to see him die. When chopper informs him that not only did Bazz successfully steal luffy's hat, but that he was on the strawhat pirates ship. Schneider immediately jumps out of bed and runs to save Bazz who at that moment is trapped in a cage with Luffy made of kairouseki. After luffy's crew Frees him and Bazz, Schneider apologizes to Bazz and tells him to give up on the hat. Luffy meanwhile is fighting his way through a whole marine base along with three giants. Finally he makes to the marine captain holding his hat only to have him throw it out to sea. Luffy immediately jumps out after it and almost has it when he starts to fall. Bazz then comes to his rescue and Luffy finally retrieves his hat. Afterwards Schenider and Bazz decide to go back out to sea and Schneider tells Luffy to be careful with his hat.
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Famous quotes containing the words straw, hat and/or chase:
“The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That’s right, son. That’s why I keep my hat on, so my horns don’t show. Why I’ve got more wives than Solomon hisself. At least that’s what folks around here say. And if they don’t say it, they, they think it.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)
“Martin Pawley: Do ya think maybe’s there’s a chance we still might find her?
Ethan Edwards: Injun’ll chase a thing ‘til he thinks he’s chased it enough. Then he quits. Same way when he runs. Seems like he never learns there’s such a thing as a critter that’ll just keep comin’ on. So we’ll find ‘em in the end. I promise ya. We’ll find ‘em, just as sure as the turnin’ of the earth.”
—Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)