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This article is about the manga. For the anime adaptation, see One Piece (TV series). For other
uses, see One Piece (disambiguation).

One Piece

Volume 61 tankōbon cover, featuring Monkey D. Luffy (center) and

the Straw Hat Pirates

Genre Adventure, fantasy[1]

Manga

Written by Eiichiro Oda

Published by Shueisha

English publisher NA

Viz Media

Imprint Jump Comics

 Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump

English magazine NA

Weekly Shonen Jump

Demographic Shōnen

Original run July 22, 1997 – present

Volumes 101 (List of volumes)

Anime television series

 One Piece (1999–present)

Media franchise

 List of One Piece media

o List of One Piece films

o List of One Piece video games

o Music of  One Piece

 Anime and manga portal

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 pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the
Grand Line in search of the world's ultimate treasure known as the "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.
As 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. It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.

Contents
 1Synopsis
o 1.1Premise
o 1.2Setting
 2Production
o 2.1Concept and creation
o 2.2Development
o 2.3Conclusion
 3Publication
o 3.1Main series
o 3.2Spin-offs and crossovers
 4Related media
o 4.1Festival films and OVA
o 4.2Anime series
o 4.3Theatrical films
o 4.4Video games
o 4.5Music
o 4.6Light novels
o 4.7Art and guidebooks
o 4.8Live-action series
o 4.9Other media
 5Reception
o 5.1Sales
o 5.2Critical response
o 5.3Merchandise
o 5.4Awards and accolades
o 5.5Cultural impact
 6Notes
 7References
 8Further reading
 9External links

Synopsis
See also: List of One Piece characters
Premise
The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy, a young man made of rubber, whom, 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 treasure, the 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.
Setting
Geography

The globe of the One Piece world

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]
Devil Fruits
A Devil Fruit[Jp 19] is a type of fruit that, when eaten, grants a power to the eater. [17] A person may only
eat one Devil Fruit during their lifetime, as eating a second Devil Fruit will swiftly end their life. [18]
There are three categories of Devil Fruits;[19]
 Paramecia[Jp 20] is a category of fruits that gives the user various superhuman abilities, such as
Luffy's rubber physiology, Nico Robin's appendage generation or Brook's self-revival. [20]
 Zoan[Jp 21] fruits allow the user to fully or partially transform into a specific animal, like how
Tony Tony Chopper can transform into a human-reindeer hybrid. Certain Zoan fruits allow the
user to transform into prehistoric creatures, like X Drake being able to turn into an Allosaurus,
and even mythical creatures, like how Marco can transform into a phoenix. Through an unknown
technique developed by scientist Dr. Vegapunk, inanimate objects can also "eat" a Devil Fruit
and gain sentience, like how Spandam's sword become an elephant. [21]
 Logia[Jp 22] fruits give control over and allow the user "to change their living body structure into
the powers of nature", like Smoker's control over smoke, Portgas D. Ace's control over fire, and
Sir Crocodile's control over sand.[19]