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.