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One Piece (Japanese: ワンピース, Hepburn: Wan Pīsu) is a Japanese manga series written
and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump
magazine since July 22, 1997, and has been collected into 95 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 King of the Pirates.
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. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one
original video animation and thirteen television specials. Several companies have developed
various types of merchandising and media, 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 the Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the
same comic book series by a single author". As of February 2020, the manga had over 462
million copies in circulation in 43 countries worldwide, making it the best-selling manga
series in history. It became the best-selling manga for the eleventh consecutive year in 2018.
One Piece is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time, estimated to have
generated more than $21 billion in total franchise revenue, from the manga, anime, films,
games and merchandise.[2]
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-
danhen), 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 pathological liar; and Vinsmoke Sanji, a womanizing chef. They
acquire a ship named the Going Merry (ゴーイング・メリー号, Gōingu Merī-gō) 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 Tony Tony Chopper,
a doctor and anthropomorphized reindeer; Nico Robin, an archaeologist and former assassin;
Franky, a cyborg shipwright; Brook, a skeletal musician and swordsman; and Jimbei, a fish-
man helmsman and former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Once the Going Merry
becomes damaged beyond repair, the Straw Hat Pirates acquire a new ship named the
Thousand Sunny (サウザンドサニー号, Sauzando Sanī-gō). 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.
Setting
The globe of the One Piece world
The world of One Piece is populated by humans and many other races, such as fish-men (a
race of fish/human hybrids, similar to mermen and mermaids), dwarves, minks (a race of
humanoid animals), and giants. It is covered by two vast oceans, which are divided by a
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massive mountain range called the Red Line (赤い土の大陸, Reddo Rain), which is also the
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only continent in the world.[3] The Grand Line ( 偉大なる航路, Gurando Rain), a sea that
runs perpendicular to the Red Line, further divides them into four seas: North Blue (
ノースブルーイーストブルー
北の海 , Nōsu Burū), East Blue ( 東の海 , Īsuto Burū), West Blue (
ウェストブルーサウスブルー
西の海 , Uesuto Burū) and South Blue ( 南の海 , Sausu Burū).[4] Surrounding
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the Grand Line are two regions called Calm Belts ( 凪の帯 , kāmu beruto), similar to
horse latitudes, which experience almost no wind or ocean currents and are the breeding
ground for huge sea creatures called sea kings (海王類, kaiōrui, lit. "sea kings"). Because of
this, the calm belts are very effective barriers for those trying to enter the Grand Line.[5]
However, navy ships, members of an intergovernmental organization known as the World
Government, are able to use a sea-prism stone (海楼石, kairōseki) to mask their presence
from the sea kings and can simply pass through the calm belts. All other ships are forced to
take a more dangerous route, going through a mountain at the first intersection of the Grand
Line and the Red Line, a canal system known as Reverse Mountain (リヴァース・マウンテ
ン, Rivāsu Maunten).[6] Sea water from each of the four seas runs up that mountain and
merges at the top to flow down a fifth canal and into the first half of the Grand Line.[7] The
second half of the Grand Line, beyond the second intersection with the Red Line, is known as
the New World (新世界, Shin Sekai).[8]

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One Piece (Japanese: ワンピース, Hepburn: Wan Pīsu) is a Japanese manga series written

See also: List of One Piece characters

The globe of the One Piece world

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