It was the best-selling manga for eleven consecutive years from 2008 to 2018. In 2015, One Piece set the Guinness World Record for “the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author”. Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the highest initial print run of any book in Japan. One Piece has received praise for its storytelling, art, characterization, and humor. 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. 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. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising and media, such as trading card games and numerous video games. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one OVA, and thirteen television specials.

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. 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.

Luffy, a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 100 tankōbon volumes as of September 2021. One Piece (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda.

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