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One Piece is 20!

It's 20 years since the first appearance of one of the most successful mangas of all time, One Piece. Let's celebrate with a selection of the best One Piece coubs.


One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda

The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy whose body gains 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 Pirate King

One Piece has been serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since July 22, 1997

Release of the manga continues to this day

The manga was adapted into an original video animation (OVA), produced by Production I.G in 1998, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999

Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, one OVA and eleven television specials

Several volumes of the manga have broken publishing records, including the largest initial print run of any book in Japan

One Piece manga announced that the manga has set a Guinness World Record for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author"