big three, then One Piece would be the boss sitting on a lavish chair smoking a cigarette, while Bleach and Naruto would be the two henchmen standing side by side of the boss and nodding at everything he says. Crazy enough for you? This is the world of One Piece.īeing categorized with Bleach and Naruto, on the surface this might strike an unfamiliar reader as another generic uncreative Shonen series but truthfully, comparing One Piece to Bleach and Naruto would be like comparing Disney World to an elementary school playground. talking reindeer, panties, flying skeletons, Takoyaki selling Octopuses, and oceans roaming with Sea Monsters the size of which can take down fleets of ships. The series has also been published in numerous amounts of languages worldwide including Korean, Malay, Indonesian, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Turkish, and Russian.įrequently categorized with both Bleach and Naruto as one of the Shonen Big Three, One Piece is a romantic tale of pirates, treasures. VIZ Media released three boxed sets for the manga the first including the first 23 volumes released on November 5, 2013, the second including volumes 24-46 released on November 4, 2014, and the third including volumes 47-70 released on October 4, 2016. VIZ Media has published One Piece in English under the Shonen Jump imprint since Januand in 3-in-1 omnibus editions since December 1, 2009. In 2012, it won the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize, alongside Kimuchi Yokoyama's Neko Darake. The series was a finalist for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize three times in a row from 2000 to 2002. Volume 67 of the series currently holds the record for highest first print run of any manga (including books) of all time in Japan, with 4.05 million in 2012.

EditBackground One Piece is the highest selling manga series of all time, with over 500 million copies in circulation as of 2022.

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