One Piece (ワンピース, Wanpīsu) is a manga and anime series created by mangaka Eiichiro Oda. One Piece focuses on a ragtag crew of pirates called Straw Hat Pirates led by Captain Monkey D. Luffy. Luffy's greatest ambition is to obtain the world's ultimate treasure, One Piece, and become Pirate King.

The manga began its serial run in issue #34 of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on August 4, 1997, while the anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999.

Eiichiro Oda originally planned One Piece to last five years,[SBS questions: One Piece Manga - Vol.42 Chapter 405, Fan question: Are you thinking about ending One Piece any time soon?] and he had already planned out the ending, but the story has continued far beyond his expectations, and its popularity has swelled to enormous proportions. [Retrieved on April 22, 2007] The license was recently acquired by FUNimation.

One Piece is the third highest selling manga in the history of Weekly Shonen Jump,[Shounen Jump Manga Circulation Numbers. ComiPress (2006). Retrieved on February 4, 2007.] and is currently their most popular and all-time third-best-selling title in Japan. The manga is so well-liked that it is the first to increase the sales of Weekly Shonen Jump in eleven years.[2007-04-17] Volume 24 of the One Piece manga was the highest selling Japanese graphic novel of all time, prior to the publication of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. As of volume 45 the series has sold over 130,000,000 copies.

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