Year 36 of the Konoha calendar, 24 years before Naruto graduates.
It is also the year 1496 of the Sea Circle Calendar, 24 years before Luffy sets sail.
That year, Minato Namikaze and Kushina have just graduated, the three Sannin are all alive, and the White Fang has not yet died.
That year, Shanks and Buggy are still apprentices aboard Roger's ship, and the Oro Jackson is about to reach Laugh Tale.
That same year, Suzuki, a fourth-year student at Konoha Ninja Academy, barges into the story just as the curtain is about to rise!
(Official synopsis begins below)
"The ultimate creature with a bounty of ten billion berries!"
"The nameless hand manipulating the fate of the Shinobi World!"
The great and ineffable shepherd of civilizations, God Suzuki, gazes toward the distant starry sky...
