The first opening of the One Piece anime TV series, "We Are!", won the Animation Kobe Theme Song Award of the year 2000.[127] In February 2001, One Piece placed 9th among anime TV series in Japan.[128] In 2001, the readers of Animage, a popular Japanese anime magazine, voted the anime TV series in 5th place of "The Readers' Picks for the Anime that should be remembered in the 21st Century".[129] In June 2002, the Animage readers voted One Piece to be the 16th best new anime of the year 2001,[130] and gave it another 16th place in 2004 in the category "Favorite Anime Series".[131] In a 2005 web poll by Japanese television network TV Asahi One Piece was voted 6th "most popular animated TV series".[132] Before the poll, Asahi TV broadcast another list based on a nation-wide survey in which One Piece placed 4th among teenagers.[133] In 2006, it was elected 32nd of the Top 100 Japanese anime by TV Asahi and 21st by its viewers.[134][135] Funimation's first DVD release of the series "One Piece: Season 1 First Voyage" was nominated for the Fifth Annual TV DVD Awards.[136]
