
They acquire a ship, the Going Merry, and engage in confrontations with notorious pirates of the East Blue. They are joined in their journey by Nami, a money-obsessed thief and navigator Usopp, a sniper and compulsive liar and Sanji, a perverted but chivalrous cook. In an effort to organize his own crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy rescues and befriends a pirate hunter and swordsman named Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the titular treasure. Luffy, a young man made of rubber, who, 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. See also: List of One Piece characters Premise It is also one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
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One Piece is the only manga whose volumes have ranked first every year in Oricon's weekly comic chart existence since 2008.Īs of August 2022, One Piece had over 516.5 million copies in circulation in 61 countries and regions worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series in history, and the best-selling comic series printed in book volume. 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 over 100 published tankōbon volumes. In 20, 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. It has received many awards and is ranked by critics, reviewers, and readers as one of the best manga of all time. One Piece has received praise for its storytelling, art, characterization, and humor.
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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 a trading card game and numerous video games. Additionally, Toei has developed fourteen animated feature films, one original video animation 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. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates. With his pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. 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 103 tankōbon volumes as of August 2022. It is revealed that Ace had a bounty of 550,000,000 in the One Piece Ten exhibition.One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. However, the brothers themselves are very close, Ace portraying typical good-big-brother behaviors such as asking the crew to keep an eye on his little brother. As far as personality goes, Ace is much more intelligent, polite, and generally more bearable than his younger brother, which prompts the Straw Hat crew to question whether he is truly related to their bumbling captain.

He is apparently narcoleptic (a trait common amongst Ace's family) and therefore falls asleep on random occasions, making people wonder if he has dropped dead. In appearance, the two brothers are obviously related, despite the fact that Ace is more muscular than the rather lanky Luffy. He left Fuusha Village three years before Luffy, and he is a loyal crewman and commands the Second Division of Whitebeard, his captain. Ace and Smoker fought to a standstill in Alabasta. Trace." He appears in One Piece Grand Adventure, once again without the tattoo on his arm.Īce travels around the Grand Line on his boat which is constructed so his Mera Mera no Mi fuels the engine on the rear end allowing it to move.Ĭurrently, Ace is one of the two known pirates to ever escape arrest by the Marine captain Smoker, the other escapee being Ace's younger brother Luffy. In the English version of the anime, Ace's shoulder tattoo signifying his name is edited out, as he is referred to there as "Portgaz D. Though it may also serves as a symbol of his other deceased sworn brother Sabo crossed out.
