One Piece

One Piece (stylized in <a href="/facts/All_caps/ASFdydxp">all caps</a>) is a Japanese <a href="/facts/Manga/DPkkyHos">manga</a> series written and illustrated by <a href="/facts/Eiichiro_Oda/QC1spakc">Eiichiro Oda</a>. It follows the adventures of <a href="/facts/Monkey_D._Luffy/FktVJV7l">Monkey D. Luffy</a> and his crew, the <a href="/facts/Straw_Hat_Pirates/qfkDVbTg">Straw Hat Pirates</a>, as he explores the Grand Line in search of the mythical treasure known as the "One Piece" to become the next King of the Pirates.
It has been serialized in <a href="/facts/Shueisha/0zYkJTwI">Shueisha</a>'s <a href="/facts/Sh%25C5%258Dnen_manga/cpvPW9Fe">shōnen manga</a> magazine <a href="/facts/Weekly_Sh%25C5%258Dnen_Jump/F3JHjX1v">Weekly Shōnen Jump</a> since July 1997, with its chapters compiled in 111 <a href="/facts/Tank%25C5%258Dbon/qs26W5oa">tankōbon</a> volumes as of March 2025. The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by <a href="/facts/Viz_Media/ryL0srEk">Viz Media</a> and in Australia by <a href="/facts/Madman_Entertainment/nFmKQ7GH">Madman Entertainment</a>. Becoming a <a href="/facts/Media_franchise/IBzGhQjA">media franchise</a>, it has been adapted into a festival film by <a href="/facts/Production_I.G/mRhgeDdN">Production I.G</a>, and an <a href="/facts/One_Piece_(1999_TV_series)/l0Jwl6ce">anime series</a> by <a href="/facts/Toei_Animation/Tr5JNfPo">Toei Animation</a>, which began broadcasting in 1999. Additionally, Toei has developed 14 animated feature films and one <a href="/facts/Original_video_animation/jmhQv2Qk">original video animation</a>. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising and media, such as a trading card game and <a href="/facts/List_of_One_Piece_video_games/6T0brx11">video games</a>. <a href="/facts/Netflix/TKtlFVY9">Netflix</a> released a live action <a href="/facts/One_Piece_(2023_TV_series)/6j213Lz9">TV series adaptation in 2023</a>.
It has received praise for the storytelling, world-building, art, characterization, and humour. It has received many awards and is ranked by critics, reviewers, and readers as one of the best manga of all time. By August 2022, it had over 516.6 million copies in circulation in 61 countries and regions worldwide, making it the <a href="/facts/List_of_best-selling_manga/nww4x7h3">best-selling manga series</a> in history, and the <a href="/facts/List_of_best-selling_comic_series/vGXr1KQn">best-selling comic series</a> printed in a book volume. Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the highest initial print run of any book in Japan. In 2015 and 2022, One Piece set the <a href="/facts/Guinness_World_Records/Az88wVWk">Guinness World Record</a> for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author". It was the best-selling manga for 11 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 one that had achieved more than 1 million copies sold in all of its over 100 published <a href="/facts/Tank%25C5%258Dbon/qs26W5oa">tankōbon</a> volumes. One Piece is the only manga whose volumes have ranked first every year in <a href="/facts/Oricon/MG3yvbdP">Oricon</a>'s weekly comic chart existence since 2008.

One Piece open-in-new

One Piece