One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda which has been translated into various languages and spawned a substantial media franchise, including animated and live action television series, films, video games, and associated music and merchandise. It follows the adventures of the teenaged boy and pirate captain Monkey D. Luffy, whose body gained the properties of rubber after he accidentally ate a supernatural fruit, as he travels the oceans in search of the series' titular treasure and organizes a diverse crew, named the Straw Hats.
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In Japan, the series is published by Shueisha. Individual chapters have been published regularly in the shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 22, 1997 and tankōbon format volumes (each collecting 10 to 12 chapters) have been published since December 24, 1997.[1] The series spans over 1128 chapters and, as of November 2024[update], has 110 tankōbon volumes, making One Piece the 20th longest manga series by volume count.
The series has been translated and released in multiple countries.[2][3][4] English localization began in North America, where Viz Media currently serializes One Piece in the Shonen Jump digital vault simultaneously with Japan. It originally published its English language adaptation of the series in the now-defunct monthly print anthology Shonen Jump starting with the magazine's launch in November 2002.[5] It also publishes tankōbon format books since June 2003,[6] which have been collected into omnibus editions incorporating three tankōbon each since December 2009;[7] chapters and books also are published digitally through its website.[8][9][10] In the United Kingdom, the tankōbon were published by Gollancz Manga, starting March 2006,[11] until Viz Media took over after the fourteenth volume.[12][13] In Australia and New Zealand, the English volumes have been distributed by Madman Entertainment since November 10, 2008.[14] By October 6, 2009, only 22 volumes had been released in English.[15] However, as announced in July 2009, Viz Media increased that number to 53 by June 2010, using an accelerated publishing schedule of five volumes per month during the first half of 2010.[16][17] As of July 2024[update], 106 volumes of the English version have been officially released by Viz Media.
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Volumes
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| 41 | Declaration of War Sensen Fukoku (宣戦布告) | April 4, 2006[18] 4-08-874047-5 | April 6, 2010[19] 1-4215-3457-6 | ||
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| The Straw Hats and CP9, and their two captives, face each other down. Nico Robin tries turning the crew away again, but when Monkey D. Luffy tells her that she can die as part of the crew instead, Robin experiences a flashback to her childhood. Raised on an island of archaeologists, Robin and the rest of the islanders attempt to discover the secret of the void century, a period in time that the government forbids anyone to know. To prevent knowledge of the void century from spreading, the island and its inhabitants (except Robin) are destroyed. Aokiji allows Robin to escape, challenging her to find friends and to live. Realizing that she had almost given up on both, Robin decides she wants to live with the rest of the Straw Hats. Touched by their words, Franky reveals that the blueprints CP9 have been searching are hidden on his person, but they are not that of Pluton, but an "opposing weapon" and he promptly destroys them, giving CP9 no further reason to keep him in custody. | |||||
| 42 | Pirates vs. CP9 Kaizoku vs CP9 (海賊 VS CP9) | July 4, 2006[20] 4-08-874127-7 | April 6, 2010[21] 1-4215-3458-4 | ||
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| The Straw Hats and Franky break off and engage CP9 in battle. Unsuited for the initial pairings, the crew exchanges opponents to improve their chances of victory, allowing two members of CP9 to be defeated. Meanwhile, Luffy follows Robin's captors, CP9 leader Spandam and CP9's strongest member Rob Lucci. Lucci fights Luffy in order to give Spandam time to take Robin to the government's inescapable prisons. Instead, while trying to call for help, Spandam accidentally triggers the destruction of the Straw Hats, summoning the world government to destroy Enies Lobby and whoever is on it. | |||||
| 43 | Legend of a Hero Eiyū Densetsu (英雄伝説) | September 4, 2006[22] 4-08-874149-8 | April 6, 2010[23] 1-4215-3459-2 | ||
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| With the destruction of Enies Lobby imminent, all government personnel begin to evacuate. The Straw Hats continue fighting and, with the exception of Luffy versus Lucci, defeat the remaining members of CP9. Their battles won, they team up and hurry to stop Robin from being taken past the point of no return. They succeed and Robin is freed. | |||||
| 44 | Let's Go Back Kaerou (帰ろう) | December 4, 2006[24] 4-08-874287-7 | May 4, 2010[25] 1-4215-3460-6 | ||
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| As the battle between Luffy and Lucci rages on, the destruction of Enies Lobby commences. The members of Galley-La and the "Franky Family" evacuate as the government employees have done, and the Straw Hats secure an escape route to use after Lucci's defeat. Once Luffy wins however, Enies Lobby's destroyers unite in their efforts to finish off the crew that beat CP9. Just when they lose their last piece of refuge, the Straw Hats are able to escape on the Merry, it having come to save them in their time of need. The crew joins with Galley-La and the Frankies and returns to Water Seven. The Merry begins to break down during the trip, so with heavy hearts the crew says goodbye to the vessel and gives it a Viking funeral. | |||||
| 45 | You Have My Sympathies Shinchū Osasshisuru (心中お察しする) | March 2, 2007[26] 978-4-08-874314-1 | May 4, 2010[27] 1-4215-3461-4 | ||
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| When they return to Water Seven, Franky decides to build a new ship for the Straw Hats. As they wait for him to finish they are visited by a contingent of naval officers led by Monkey D. Garp, Luffy's grandfather. Though on opposing sides of the law, Garp only wants to spend some time with his grandson and leaves without confrontation. Meanwhile, the Straw Hats learn that they have been blamed for the destruction of Enies Lobby and have bounties on their heads because of it. Since Franky is also subject to a bounty, he decides to join the Straw Hats after completing their ship, although they have to trick him into it by stealing his trunks. Usopp also officially rejoins the crew and they leave Water Seven. After a brief scuffle with Garp, who is forced by his superiors to try to capture Luffy, the Straw Hats continue on to their next adventure. Elsewhere, Luffy's brother, Portgas D. Ace, finds Blackbeard, the man he has spent the entirety of the series looking for. The two are drawn into a battle whose outcome is not revealed until much later. | |||||
| 46 | Adventure on Ghost Island Gōsuto Airando no Bōken (ゴースト島の冒険) | July 4, 2007[28] 978-4-08-874382-0 | May 4, 2010[29] 1-4215-3462-2 | ||
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| The Straw Hat Pirates continue their adventure across the seas. After being stuck in a fog not even the sun can penetrate, the crew meets Brook, a living skeleton who immediately agrees to join their crew. Unfortunately for the Straw Hats, Brook lost his shadow on the giant ship known as Thriller Bark and cannot accompany them outside the fog. Determined to have Brook as part of the crew, they go to the Thriller Bark in order to get Brook's shadow back. Tony Tony Chopper, Usopp, and Nami serve as the first boarding party, and find that the ship is inhabited by zombies. When the rest of the Straw Hats follow they discover that Brook is not the only one who has lost his shadow, and that much of the island-like ship's populace have had their shadows stolen by Gecko Moria. | |||||
| 47 | Cloudy, Partly Bony Kumori Tokidoki Hone (くもり時々ホネ) | September 4, 2007[30] 978-4-08-874411-7 | May 4, 2010[31] 1-4215-3463-0 | ||
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| Moria mobilizes his zombies to capture the Straw Hats, who in turn try to reunite their two boarding parties. However, when they begin to engage Moria's forces in an effort to accomplish this goal, members of the crew mysteriously disappear. Brook explains this is Moria's doing. He captures those who enter Thriller Bark, removes their shadows, and inserts them into patched-up corpses in order to reanimate them and create his own zombie army. The shadowless individuals are forced to stay out of the sunlight or risk their own destruction,so that most stay within the impenetrable fogs of Thriller Bark. With Sanji, Roronoa Zoro, and Monkey D. Luffy having lost their shadows and Nami similarly unaccounted for, the Straw Hats become determined to defeat Moria. | |||||
| 48 | Adventures of Oars Ōzu no Bōken (オーズの冒険) | December 4, 2007[32] 978-4-08-874442-1 | May 4, 2010[33] 1-4215-3464-9 | ||
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| Just when the Straw Hats start looking for Moria they run into Oars, the gigantic zombie who has been given Luffy's shadow. Before they deal with him, the crew splits up to get rid of the leaders of Moria's army. Sanji saves Nami from one of them, Usopp defeats another, and Nico Robin and Chopper take care of the third. Zoro, meanwhile, fights the zombie that houses Brook's shadow, and when it is defeated Brook is restored to his former self. Their immediate objectives completed, the crew turns their attention to Oars. | |||||
| 49 | Nightmare Luffy Naitomea Rufi (ナイトメア・ルフィ) | March 4, 2008[34] 978-4-08-874485-8 | June 1, 2010[35] 1-4215-3465-7 | ||
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| While Luffy chases Moria across Thriller Bark, his crew does their best to defeat Oars. Though they almost succeed, Oars is quickly joined by Moria, who gives him the advantage he needs to decimate the crew. Luffy, unaware that Moria has joined Oars, runs into a group of pirates who have lost their shadows. Seeing Luffy as their hope for freedom, they provide him with the means to bring down Moria: a hundred shadows they have managed to take back from the island's zombies. Luffy engages Oars, and with the help of his crew, they finally defeat the giant. With Thriller Bark's course having been left unattended, the fog begins to thin and the sun begins to rise. Seeing this as an effective way to get rid of the Straw Hats, Moria absorbs all the island's shadows to kill time until sunrise. | |||||
| 50 | Arriving Again Futatabi Tadoritsuku (再び辿りつく) | June 4, 2008[36] 978-4-08-874521-3 | June 1, 2010[37] 1-4215-3466-5 | ||
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| Moria, like Luffy before him, is given the strength of all the shadows he has absorbed. Moria, however, has absorbed more shadows than he can handle, and with each successful blow Luffy lands on him he loses some of the excess shadows. When Luffy drops the whole of Thriller Bark on him, Moria loses all of his shadows, which quickly return to their original owners. No longer fearing the sun, the Straw Hats and the inhabitants of Thriller Bark begin to celebrate, only to be cut short by the arrival of Bartholomew Kuma. A Warlord of the Sea, Kuma has been sent to take Luffy's head, something nobody on Thriller Bark will allow. Kuma easily deals with all of them, but before he can kill Luffy, Zoro convinces him to spare the Straw Hat captain. Kuma leaves and they resume their celebration. With Brook free to walk in the sun, he joins the Straw Hats in leaving Thriller Bark and moving on to their next adventure. | |||||
| 51 | The Eleven Supernovas Jūichinin no Chōshinsei (11人の超新星) | September 4, 2008[38] 978-4-08-874563-3 | June 1, 2010[39] 1-4215-3467-3 | ||
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| The Straw Hats arrive at the halfway point of their adventure: the Red Line that splits the oceans in two. As pirates and thus enemies of the World Government, their only way to get through the divider is by traveling under the sea. When they meet Hatchan and his friend Camie, they learn of a man who can outfit their ship for an undersea voyage. They arrive at the archipelago where he resides and begin to search for him. While there they encounter the Celestial Dragons, the descendants of the founders of the World Government. Though angered by the Celestial Dragons' treatment of other people, Hatchan convinces the Straw Hats not to do anything, or risk the full wrath of the Government. As they continue their search, Camie is captured to be sold as a slave to the Celestial Dragons. In their attempt to rescue her Hatchan is shot by a Celestial Dragon, prompting Luffy to break his promise and punching the dragon in anger. | |||||
| 52 | Roger and Rayleigh Rojā to Reirī (ロジャーとレイリー) | December 4, 2008[40] 978-4-08-874602-9 | June 1, 2010[41] 1-4215-3468-1 | ||
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| Having assaulted a Celestial Dragon, the Straw Hats have effectively declared war against the World Government. In doing so Silvers Rayleigh, the man they have searched for, decides to reveal himself to the Straw Hats. He frees Camie, attends to Hatchan, and leaves the others to deal with the approaching navy. With the help of some fellow pirate crews the Straw Hats are able to rendezvous with Rayleigh, the former first mate of the pirate king. Optimistic that the Straw Hats will be able to emulate the pirate king's successes, he agrees to outfit their ship. While waiting for him to finish the job, the Straw Hats must elude the navy that has been sent after them, something that proves difficult to do when they keep running into copies of Bartholomew Kuma. To complicate matters, they are found by Kizaru, a navy admiral who has effortlessly dealt with all the pirates who helped the Straw Hats earlier. Just as they are about to be defeated by the combined forces, Rayleigh and the real Kuma arrive to intervene. | |||||
| 53 | Natural Born King Ō no Shishitsu (王の資質) | March 4, 2009[42] 978-4-08-874640-1 | June 1, 2010[17] 1-4215-3469-X | ||
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| While Rayleigh distracts Kizaru, the real Kuma confronts every member of the Straw Hats in turn. Despite their best efforts to escape, Kuma defeats each of them and causes them to disappear. Some time later, Luffy appears on an island populated only by women. Although men are forbidden to set foot on it, Luffy is able to befriend some of the islanders. When Boa Hancock, the island's leader learns of Luffy's presence, she petrifies his new friends in stone as punishment and sentences Luffy to be executed. When he shows no concern for his own fate, and asks only that his friends be freed, Hancock falls in love with him and does as he asks. Now free to roam the island, Luffy hears that his brother, Portgas D. Ace, lost his earlier battle with Blackbeard and is to be executed by the World Government. Wanting to save him, Luffy asks Hancock, who's fell in love with him, to take him to the government prison, the Impel Down. | |||||
| 54 | Unstoppable Mō Dare ni mo Tomerarenai (もう誰にも止められない) | June 4, 2009[43] 978-4-08-874662-3 | July 6, 2010[44] 1-4215-3470-3 | ||
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| As a pirate working for the World Government, Hancock is able to sneak Luffy into Impel Down. Luffy attempts to avoid drawing attention to himself, but meeting his old nemesis, Buggy the Clown, the entire prison is alerted to his presence. Luffy and Buggy continue through the prison's first three levels, defeating any jailers they come across. At the same time, they reunite with other pirates Luffy has met in the past, recruiting them to help find Ace. With Ace's execution only a few hours away, the chief warden, Magellan, sets out to stop Luffy himself. | |||||
| 55 | A Ray of Hope Jigoku ni Okama (地獄に仏) | September 4, 2009[45] 978-4-08-874727-9 | October 5, 2010[46] 1-4215-3471-1 | ||
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| Luffy is found by Magellan, who uses his abilities to poison to bring Luffy to the brink of death. Luffy's old friend Bon Clay locates the inmate Emporio Ivankov to heal him, but his recovery takes several hours. When he wakes up he finds Ace has already been taken to Marine Headquarters for execution. Determined to save him, Luffy rallies the support of Iva and two of Impel Down's most dangerous prisoners: Sir Crocodile and Jimbei. Together they lead a prison break that spreads throughout Impel Down. | |||||
| 56 | Thank You Arigatō (ありがとう) | December 4, 2009[47] 978-4-08-874761-3 | February 1, 2011[48] 978-1-4215-3850-1 | ||
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| The escaped prisoners make their way to Impel Down's exit, dealing with any prison guards who try to stop them. When Magellan begins to thin their numbers, Blackbeard arrives to help Luffy by holding him off. Even though he wants to take revenge on Blackbeard for Ace's capture, Luffy escapes with the other inmates. They procure a boat and set sail for Marine headquarters. Bon Clay stays behind to grant them passage. Meanwhile, with Ace's execution imminent, the reason for his death is given. He is not being executed because he is a leading member of Whitebeard's pirate crew, but because he is the son of the pirate king Gol D. Roger. | |||||
| 57 | Paramount War Chōjō Kessen (頂上決戦) | March 4, 2010[49] 978-4-08-870010-6 | June 7, 2011[50] 1-4215-3851-2 | ||
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| Whitebeard, the strongest of the world's pirates, arrives with his forces to free Ace. As he and the navy begin their war to decide Ace's fate, the world watches the events of the battle unfold on television. Whitebeard's pirates are slow to gain any ground, and it is not until the arrival of Luffy and the other Impel Down escapees that they are able to break through the navy's barricade. In an effort to eliminate all of them, the navy boxes the pirates in and cuts off the telecast, wanting to keep the world from witnessing the coming slaughter. | |||||
| 58 | The Name of This Era Is "Whitebeard" Kono Jidai no Na o "Shirohige" to Yobu (この時代の名を"白ひげ"と呼ぶ) | June 4, 2010[51] 978-4-08-870045-8 | September 13, 2011[52] 1-4215-3926-8 | ||
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| The pirates suffer heavy casualties. Whitebeard goes on the offensive, using his ability to create earthquakes to protect his men, but he too is mortally wounded. Despite the insurmountable odds, Luffy continues trying to reach Ace. His resolve causes the pirates to rally around him, giving him enough support to finally reach and rescue his brother. Having succeeded, the pirates begin to retreat and the navy, determined not to completely lose control of the situation, focuses their efforts on stopping Luffy and Ace. The worldwide telecast is restored just as Ace is dealt a fatal blow protecting Luffy from Admiral Akainu. | |||||
| 59 | The Death of Portgaz D. Ace Pōtogasu Dī Ēsu Shisu (ポートガス・D・エース死す) | August 4, 2010[53] 978-4-08-870083-0 | December 6, 2011[54] 978-1-4215-3959-1 | ||
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| Ace dies from his injuries. Luffy is devastated by the loss and the pirates, having failed to rescue Ace, flee. Whitebeard tries to avenge Ace, but he is killed by Blackbeard and his own crew of Impel Down escapees. Blackbeard absorbs Whitebeard's ability to create earthquakes and uses it to lay waste to Marine Headquarters. When the battle turns into a battle royale between Blackbeard, the navy, and the retreating pirates, Koby, Luffy's friend in the Marines, and Luffy's idol Red-Haired Shanks, intervene and convinces all sides to stop fighting. As the world comes to grips with all that happened during the war, Hancock takes Luffy back to the island of women to recover. Luffy spends his time there reflecting on how he, Ace, and a boy named Sabo, have come to consider each other brothers despite having completely different backgrounds. | |||||
| 60 | My Little Brother Otōto yo (弟よ) | November 4, 2010[55] 978-4-08-870125-7 | January 3, 2012[56] 978-1-4215-4085-6 | ||
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| After Sabo is assumed to have been killed by a Celestial Dragon for being "human garbage", Luffy and Ace vow to look out for each other always. With Ace now dead, Luffy believes he has nothing to live for. When he remembers that he still has his crew, Luffy makes plans to go return to the archipelago where they were last together. Rayleigh, having tracked Luffy down, advises against this; not only would they be defeated again, but the World Government is now after Luffy because of his recent actions. Rayleigh suggests an alternative approach. They go and briefly assault Marine Headquarters, something that becomes a major news story. The other Straw Hats, having been sent to different parts of the world by Kuma, quickly learn of this and find hidden meaning in Luffy's return. | |||||
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