One Piece

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For other uses, see One-piece (disambiguation).

One Piece

Sixty-first volume of One Piece,

released in Japan by Shueisha on
February 4, 2011

ONE PIECE
(Wan Peesu)
Genre

Action, Adventure, Fanta

sy
Manga

Written by

Eiichiro Oda

Published b Shueisha
y
English
publisher

AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Viz Media
UK

Gollancz Manga
Demographi Shnen
c
Magazine
English
magazine

Weekly Shnen Jump

NA

Weekly Shonen Jump

Original run July 19, 1997 ongoing

Volumes

77 (List of volumes)

Original video animation

One Piece: Defeat The Pirate Ganzack!
Directed by Gor 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 Konosuke Uda (#1278)
Junji Shimizu (#131
159)
Munehisa Sakai (#244
372)
Hiroaki
Miyamoto (#352679)
Toshinori
Fukazawa (#663-)
Produced by Yoshihiro Suzuki (Fuji
TV; #147)
Kji Kaneda (Fuji TV;
#48106)
Tsuyoshi Kumagai (Fuji
TV; #107132)
Yko Matsuzaki (Fuji
TV; #133240)
Kentar Shibuya (Fuji
TV; #241368)
Makoto Seino (Fuji TV;
#369604, #612614)
(Fuji TV;
#591652)
Yta Kan (Fuji TV;

#653)
Shinji Shimizu (Toei
Animation; #1228)
Atsutoshi Umezawa
(Toei Animation; #229
298)
Ysuke Asama (Toei
Animation; #279368)
Hiro'aki Shibata (Toei
Animation; #369530)
Hiroyuki Sakurada (Toei
Animation; #531)
Written by

Junki Takegami (#1195)

Hirohiko Uesaka (#196)

Music by

Kohei Tanaka
Shiro Hamaguchi

Studio

Toei Animation

Licensed by

AUS

Madman Entertainment
NA

Funimation
SG

Odex
UK

Manga Entertainment
Network

Fuji TV (and
other FNS stations)

English
network

AUS

Network Ten, Cartoon

Network (Toonami)
CA

YTV
NZ

Cartoon Network
UK

Toonami, CN Too
US

Fox (4Kids TV), Cartoon

Network (Toonami), Adu
lt Swim/Toonami
Original run October 20, 1999
ongoing
Episodes

687 (List of episodes)

Original video animation

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

One Piece ( Wan Psu?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated
by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Weekly Shnen Jump since July 19, 1997; the
individual chapters are being published in tankbon volumes by Shueisha. The first
volume was released on December 24, 1997, in total seventy-six volumes have been
released. One Piece follows the adventures ofMonkey D. Luffy, a young man whose
body gains the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit, and his
diverse crew of pirates, named theStraw Hat Pirates. Luffy explores the ocean in search
of the world's ultimate treasure known as "One Piece" in order to become the next
Pirate King.

The chapters have 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. Since then, the still continuing series has aired
over 678 episodes. Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, two
OVA's, and five television specials. Several companies have developed various types of
merchandising such as a trading card game, and a large number of video games. The
manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America by Viz
Media, in the United Kingdom by Gollancz Manga, and in Australia by Madman
Entertainment. The entire anime series was first licensed by 4Kids, which due to poor
reception, shifted in 2007 to Funimation for an English-language release in North
America.
One Piece has received widespread critical acclaim, primarily for its art,
characterization, humor and story. Several volumes of the manga have broken
publishing records, including highest initial print run of any book in Japan and the first
book to sell over three million copies in Oricon history. The series has over 345 million
volumes in circulation worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series in history.

Contents
[hide]

1 Overview
o

1.1 Setting

1.2 Plot

2 Production

3 Media
o

3.1 Manga

3.2 Original video animations

3.3 Anime series

3.4 Anime films

3.5 Video games

3.6 Music

3.7 Light novels

3.8 Art and guidebooks

3.9 Other media

4 Reception
o

4.1 Manga

4.2 Anime

5 Awards
o

5.1 Manga

5.2 Anime

6 Events

7 References

8 External links

Overview[edit]
Setting [edit]

The world of One piece is populated by humans and numerous other races,
including mermen andmermaids, "fishmen" (a race of fish/human hybrids), and giants. It
is covered by two vast oceans (Grand line and New world), which are divided by a
massive mountain range called the Red Line ( Reddo
[1]
Rain?). The Grand Line ( Gurando Rain), a sea that
runs perpendicular to the Red Line, further divides them into four seas: North Blue (
Nsu Bur), East Blue ( suto Bur),
West Blue ( Uesuto Bur) and South Blue (
[2]
Sausu Bur). Surrounding the Grand Line are two regions called Calm
Belts (kmu beruto), similar to the Horse latitudes, which
experience almost no wind and ocean currents and are breeding ground for the huge
sea creatures called neptunians ( kairui, lit. "sea kings"). Because of this, the
[3]
calm belts are very effective barriers for those trying to enter the Grand Line. While
marine ships, using sea-prism stone ( kairseki) to mask their presence, can
[4]
simply pass through, most have to use the canal system of Reverse Mountain (
Rivsu Maunten), a mountain at the first intersection of the
Grand Line and the Red Line. 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
[5]
Grand Line. The second half of the Grand Line, beyond the second intersection with
the Red Line, is also known as the New World ( Shin Sekai).

[6]

The currents and weather on the Grand Line's open sea are extremely unpredictable,
[7]
whereas in the vicinity of islands the climate is stable. What makes it even harder to
navigate is the fact that normal compasses do not work there.

[8]

A special compass
[9]

called a Log Pose (Rogu Psu ) must be used. The Log

Pose works by locking on to one island's magnetic field and then locking on to another
[10]
[11]
island's magnetic field.
The time for it to set depends on the island.
This process
can be bypassed by obtaining an Eternal Pose (Etnaru
?

Psu), a Log Pose variation that is permanently set to a specific island and never
[12]
changes.
The world of One Piece includes anachronisms, such as the Transponder Snails (
Den-Den Mushi?), snail-like animals that can be attached to electric equipment and
[13]
[13]
[14]
function as rotary phones,
fax machines, surveillance cameras,
and similar
[14]

devices.
Dials ( daiaru), the shells of certain sky-dwelling animals,
can be used to store kinetic energy, wind, sound, images, heat, and the like and have
[15]
various applications.
A Devil Fruit ( Akuma no Mi) is a type of fruit which when eaten confers a
[16]
[17]
power on the eater.
There are three categories of Devil Fruit. Zoan (
Zoon) fruits allow the user to fully and partially transform into a specific animal (real
or otherwise [some fruits allow a person to turn into mythical beast such as a phoenix or
[18]
a dragon.]).
Logia ( Rogia) fruits give control over and allow the
[17]

user "to change their living body structure into the powers of nature".
Paramecia (
Paramishia) is a catch-all category for fruits that give the user
[19]
superhuman abilities.
They are said to be incarnations of the Sea Devil himself, and
as a result, Devil Fruit users cannot swim in sea water, as "they are hated by the sea".
[20]
Sea-prism stone also has this effect. When even partially submerged in sea water,
they lose all of their strength and coordination, although some abilities remain, such as
Luffy still being able to stretch after being totally submerged. "Moving" water, such as
rain or waves, does not have this effect. When a Devil Fruit user dies, the powers will be
[21]
reincarnated into a new Devil Fruit.
Haki (?, lit. "Ambition") is a latent ability every living being in the world of One
Piece possesses, though it is quiescent in most. It comes in three varieties: Color of
Observation Haki ( Kenbunshoku no Haki) allows to sense the presence of
other beings and predict their movement. Color of Armament ( Busshoku
no Haki) allows one to envelop body parts and even inanimate forms with a force akin to
an invisible armor that possesses defensive/offensive properties, which also allows one
to inflict harm upon Devil Fruit users. The rare Color of the Conquering King (
Hashoku no Haki) enables one to intimidate or render beings of weak
[citation needed]
determination unconscious.