One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda.

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. 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 OVA 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. It has received
many awards and is ranked by critics, reviewers, and readers as one of the best manga of all time.
Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the highest initial print run
of any book in Japan. In 2015, One Piece set the Guinness World Record for "the most copies
published for the same comic book series by a single author". 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.

The series focuses on Monkey D. 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. In an effort to organize his own
crew, the Straw Hat Pirates,[Jp 1] Luffy rescues and befriends a pirate hunter and swordsman named
Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the titular treasure. 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. They acquire a ship, the Going Merry[Jp 2], 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, 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. Once the Going Merry
becomes damaged beyond repair, the Straw Hat Pirates acquire a new ship, the Thousand Sunny,[Jp 3]
built by Franky. 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.

The world of One Piece is populated by humans and many other races, such as fish-men and
merfolk (two races of fish/human hybrids), dwarves, minks (a race of humanoids with animal
features), and giants. It is covered by two vast oceans, which are divided by a massive
mountain range called the Red Line,[Jp 4] which is also the only continent in the world.[2] The
Grand Line,[Jp 5] a sea that runs perpendicular to the Red Line, further divides them into four
seas: North Blue,[Jp 6] East Blue,[Jp 7] West Blue,[Jp 8] and South Blue.[Jp 9][3] Surrounding the
Grand Line are two regions called Calm Belts,[Jp 10] similar to horse latitudes, which
experience almost no wind or ocean currents and are the breeding ground for huge sea
creatures called sea kings.[Jp 11] Because of this, the calm belts are very effective barriers for
those trying to enter the Grand Line.[4] However, navy ships, members of an
intergovernmental organization known as the World Government, are able to use a sea-prism
stone[Jp 12] 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.[Jp 13][5] 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, called Paradise
because how it compared to the second half.[6] The second half of the Grand Line, beyond the
second intersection with the Red Line, is known as the New World.[Jp 14][7]

The currents and weather of the Grand Line's open sea are extremely unpredictable, whereas
in the vicinity of islands the climate is stable.[8] The magnetic fields within the Grand Line
cause normal compasses to malfunction, making it even more difficult to navigate,[9] and
instead a special compass called a Log Pose[Jp 15] must be used.[10] The Log Pose functions by
locking on to one island's magnetic field and then locking on to another island's magnetic
field.[11] The time for it to set depends on the island.[12] This process can be bypassed by
obtaining an Eternal Pose,[Jp 16] a Log Pose variation that is permanently set to a specific
island and never changes.[13]

The world of One Piece includes animals that function like devices. Transponder Snails[Jp 17]
are snail-like animals that act like a rotary phone, fax machine, or camera.[14][15] Dials,[Jp 18] the
shells of certain sky-dwelling animals, can be used to store kinetic energy, wind, sound,
images, heat, and the like and have various applications.[16]