![]() ![]() Teach is based on and named after the historical pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach. The reading of pirate biographies influenced Oda to incorporate the characteristics of real-life pirates into many of the characters in One Piece for example, the character Marshall D. Once the Going Merry is damaged beyond repair, Franky builds the Straw Hat Pirates a new ship, the Thousand Sunny, Together, they encounter other pirates, bounty hunters, criminal organizations, revolutionaries, secret agents, and soldiers of the corrupt World Government, and various other friends and foes, as they sail the seas in pursuit of their dreams.Įiichiro Oda's interest in pirates began in his childhood, watching the animated series Vicky the Viking, which inspired him to want to draw a manga series about pirates. As Luffy and his crew set out on their adventures, others join the crew later in the series, including Tony Tony Chopper, an anthropomorphized reindeer doctor Nico Robin, an archaeologist and former Baroque Works assassin Franky, a cyborg shipwright Brook, a skeleton musician and swordsman and Jimbei, a fish-man helmsman and former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. They acquire a ship, the Going Merry, and engage in confrontations with notorious pirates of the East Blue. They are joined in their journey by Nami, a money-obsessed thief and navigator Usopp, a sniper and compulsive liar and Sanji, a perverted but chivalrous cook. In an effort to organize his own crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy rescues and befriends a pirate hunter and swordsman named Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the titular treasure. Luffy, a young man made of rubber, who, inspired by his childhood idol, the powerful pirate Red-Haired Shanks, sets off on a journey from the East Blue Sea to find the mythical treasure, the One Piece, and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates. 4.1 Festival films and original video animation. ![]() It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. One Piece is the only manga whose volumes have ranked first every year in Oricon's weekly comic chart existence since 2008.Īs of August 2022, One Piece had over 516.5 million copies in circulation in 61 countries and regions worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series in history, and the best-selling comic series printed in book volume. It was the best-selling manga for eleven consecutive years from 2008 to 2018, and is the only manga that had an initial print of volumes of above 3 million continuously for more than 10 years, as well as the only that had achieved more than 1 million copies sold in all of its over 100 published tankōbon volumes. In 20, One Piece set the Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author". Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the highest initial print run of any book in Japan. It has received many awards and is ranked by critics, reviewers, and readers as one of the best manga of all time. One Piece has received praise for its storytelling, art, characterization, and humor. 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. 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. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising and media, such as a trading card game and numerous video games. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one original video animation, and thirteen television specials. The manga spawned a media franchise, having been adapted into a festival film produced by Production I.G, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates. With his pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. Luffy, a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 103 tankōbon volumes as of August 2022. One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. ![]()
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