Eiichiro Oda . It has been serialized in Shueisha 's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine since July 22, 1997, and has been collected in 88 tankōbon volumes. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy , a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his crew of pirates, named the
Straw Hat Pirates , Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the world's ultimate treasure known as "One Piece" in order to become the next Pirate King.
One Piece
Cover of the sixty-first manga volume ONE PIECE （ワンピース）
( Wan Pīsu ) Genre
Action -
adventure ,
fantasy [1] Manga Written by
Eiichiro Oda Published by
Shueisha English publisher
NA
Viz Media Demographic
Shōnen Magazine
Weekly Shōnen Jump English magazine
NA
Weekly Shonen Jump Original run
July 22, 1997 – present Volumes
88 ( List of volumes ) Anime film Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzack! Directed by
Gorō Taniguchi Produced by
Tetsuo Daitoku
Hidekazu Terakawa Written by
Hiroaki Kitajima Music by
Toshiya Motomichi Studio
Production I.G Released
July 26, 1998 Runtime
29 minutes Anime television series Directed by
Kōnosuke Uda (#1–278)
Junji Shimizu (#131–159)
Munehisa Sakai (#244–372)
Hiroaki Miyamoto
(#352–679)
Toshinori Fukazawa (#663–)
Satoshi Itō (#780–782)
Tatsuya Nagamine
(#780–782) Written by
Junki Takegami
(#1–195)
Hirohiko Uesaka
(#196–798)
Shōji Yonemura
(#799–) Music by
Kohei Tanaka
Shirō Hamaguchi Studio
Toei Animation Licensed by
AUS
Madman Entertainment
NA
Funimation
UK
Manga Entertainment Original network
FNS ( Fuji TV ) English network
AU
Network Ten ,
Cartoon Network ( Toonami )
CA
YTV
JP
Animax
NZ
Cartoon Network ,
TV2
SEA
Animax Asia
UK
Toonami , CN Too
US
Cartoon Network /
Adult Swim ( Toonami )
Fox ( 4Kids TV )
ZA
SABC 2 Original run
October 20, 1999 – present Episodes
828 ( List of episodes ) Anime film One Piece: Romance Dawn Story Directed by
Katsumi Tokoro Produced by
Yosuke Asama Written by
Tsuyoshi Sakurai Music by
Kohei Tanaka
Shiro Hamaguchi Studio
Toei Animation Released
September 21, 2008 Runtime
34 minutes Original video animation One Piece Film Strong World: Episode 0 Directed by
Naoyuki Ito Produced by
Hiroaki Shibata Written by
Hitoshi Tanaka Music by
Kohei Tanaka
Shiro Hamaguchi Studio
Toei Animation Released
December 12, 2009 Runtime
30 minutes Anime and Manga portal
The manga has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) produced by Production I.G in 1998, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation , which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, one OVA and eleven television specials. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising such as a trading card game and numerous video games . The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. The anime series was licensed by 4Kids Entertainment for an English-language release in North America in 2004, before the license was dropped and subsequently acquired by Funimation in 2007.
One Piece has received praise for its storytelling, art, characterization, and humor. Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the highest initial print run of any book in Japan. The official website for Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga announced that the manga has set a Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author". As of October 2017, the manga has sold over 430 million copies worldwide, making it the
best-selling manga series in history. It became the best-selling manga for the tenth consecutive year in 2017.
Overview
Premise
See also: List of One Piece characters
The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy , a young man who, inspired by his childhood idol and powerful pirate
"Red Haired" Shanks , sets off on a journey from the East Blue Sea to find the famed treasure One Piece and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates. In an effort to organize his own crew, the Straw Hat Pirates (麦わら海賊団篇 Mugiwara Kaizoku-dan ), Luffy rescues and befriends a swordsman named Roronoa Zoro , and they head off in search of the One Piece. They are joined in their journey by Nami , a navigator and thief; Usopp , a sniper and a liar; and Vinsmoke Sanji, a womanizing chef who is also a prince from a family of Royal Assassins. They acquire a ship named the Going Merry and engage in confrontations with notorious pirates of the East Blue. As Luffy and his crew set out on their adventures, others join the crew later in the series, including the doctor and anthropomorphized reindeer
Tony Tony Chopper , an archaeologist and former assassin Nico Robin, a cyborg shipwright Franky, and skeletal musician Brook , and they also acquire a new ship named Thousand Sunny.
