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 Vinsmoke Sanji, a perverted but chivalrous chef.
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 rubberized young man 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 One Piece and proclaim himself the King of the Pirates. See also: List of One Piece characters Premise It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
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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 100 published tankōbon volumes.Īs of July 2021, One Piece had over 490 million copies in circulation in 58 countries and regions worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series in history, and the best-selling comic series printed in book volume. In 2015, 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.
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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 OVA 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. 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 King of the Pirates. 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 101 tankōbon volumes as of December 2021. One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda.