Orchestra of the Sea

The piece assembles the Straw Hat Pirates atop a bandstand set out in the middle of the ocean. Their idea is to draw fish close for a meal by playing something beautiful, and Zoro teasingly points out that Chopper would work as more effective bait, which horrifies the little reindeer. The instant the crew strikes up their tune, the legendary Rainbow Moray Eel Brothers rise to the surface, pulled in by the sound.

The scheme collapses when Luffy and the rest grow so mesmerized by the eels that they forget to grab any of them. Nami, enraged at the wasted chance, promptly delivers Luffy a beating. Every member takes up a separate instrument for the performance: Luffy handles cymbals along with a harmonica, Zoro plays an African drumset, Sanji blows a trombone, Usopp strums a mandolin, Nami sits at a grand piano, Chopper rattles maracas, and Robin plucks a harp.

Technically this is the earliest omake to bear the Straw Hat Theater banner, yet it shares little with the entries that came after. Those later shorts are confined to log books and databooks, are always drawn super-deformed, and never appear in color, and this one was also skipped when the Straw Hat Theater digital volume was compiled. The caption on the central spread borrows a line from the Louis Armstrong song What a Wonderful World, and although the omake was never animated, its premise was redrawn in the anime's art style for the dust jacket of the Character Song Carnival.