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One Piece author claims a certain seven villains extended the series far longer than he intended
A passing thought became the cornerstone for a gripping story that has entertained generations.
- Japan
- (Eiichiro Oda • manga • One Piece • series)
Famous characters celebrate special occasions in your life with personalized letters
- Koh Ruide
Aug 23, 2017
What’s better than friends wishing you a happy birthday? Having One Piece’s Luffy or Ash from Pokémon personally doing it instead!
- Japan
- (anime characters • Ash Ketchum • Detective Conan • Kamen Rider • letter • Luffy • One Piece • Pokemon • Pretty Cure)
One Piece’s creator refusing to write about his struggles could be a reason for its huge success
- Koh Ruide
Aug 5, 2017
With over 416 million copies sold worldwide, he sure knows what makes readers tick.
Anime One Piece to become live-action TV series…produced in the U.S.?!?
- Casey Baseel
Jul 21, 2017
Surprise announcement comes at 20th anniversary celebration of pirate manga, as producer hopes to make “most expensive TV series ever produced.”
One Piece, Star Wars and other characters come to life with mind-bending art within art 【Photos】
- Richard Simmonds
Jul 16, 2017
Can you identify Ah Leung‘s gorgeous Magic Eye-style film and anime characters?
- Japan
- (ah leung • art • artist • Dragon Ball • Instagram • Mazinger Z • One Piece • Star Wars)
One Piece anime/manga creator promises that the series will, in fact, have an ending one day
- Casey Baseel
Jul 15, 2017
Eiichiro Oda asks fans to keep reading the manga “a little longer” as series celebrates 20th anniversary.
- Japan
- (anime • Eiichiro Oda • manga • One Piece)
Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece Voice Actor Ed Blaylock Passes Away
- Anime News Network
Apr 23, 2017
Voice actor for King Bradley, Sengoku was 64.
- USA
- (anime • Anime News Network • ANN • Fullmetal Alchemist • One Piece • voice actors)
Tokyo indoor anime theme park launches new cosplay rental service
- Casey Baseel
Apr 15, 2017
There’s no easier or more appropriate place to cosplay as some of the greatest heroes of the anime and manga world.
- Japan
- (Amusement Parks • anime • cosplay • Dragon Ball • gintama • Ikebukuro • J-World Tokyo • manga • Naruto • One Piece • Shonen Jump • theme parks • Tokyo)
One Piece official lingerie and bikinis: further proof that the pirate anime is for grown-ups too
- Casey Baseel
Apr 4, 2017
Japanese intimate apparel company that brought us Sailor Moon panties turns its eyes to another icon of the anime world.
- Japan
- (anime • bikinis • bras • fashion • lingerie • manga • One Piece • Peach John • swimsuits • swimwear)
One Piece team shows us how a Weekly Shonen Jump cover is crafted【Video】
- Master Blaster
Mar 25, 2017
Possibly the first-ever look at how one of the most crowded magazine covers is designed.
- Internet, Japan
- (art • graphic design • layout • manga • One Piece • Weekly Shonen Jump)
Japanese Twitter users cannot get enough of this pair of Mexican cosplayers【Photos】
- KK Miller
Jan 6, 2017
They’ve got high looks, high praise and now a high number of Japanese fans.
- Mexico
- (anime • cosplay • cosplayers • Legend of Zelda • One Piece • Twin Cosplay)
You can be the pirate king! Put yourself in a One Piece New Year’s card online for free
- Scott Wilson
Nov 16, 2016
Become part of the straw hat crew on your own awesome card.
- Japan
- (cards • nengajo • new year cards • One Piece)
We know right where you can put your razor – in the hands of these One Piece characters!
- KK Miller
Oct 5, 2016
Zoro has three blades, but you wield five when you shave!
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Visiting the official One Piece Library Cafe【Photo Report】
- Tokyo Otaku Mode
Sep 23, 2016
Conveniently located in Tokyo Tower, the renewed Cafe Mugiwara is easily accessible, highly entertaining, and also provides free wifi for guests to catch up or plan out the next part of their journey.
Comiket 90: Japanese cosplayers bring the heat to opening day of summer event
- Oona McGee
Aug 15, 2016
Comiket sizzled on opening day with hot beauties from favourites like One Piece, Love Live!, and even Pokémon.
- Japan
- (anime • characters • Comics • Comiket • cosplay • Cosplay costume • cosplayers • love live • manga • One Piece • Pokemon)
One Piece and music lovers can now add Brook’s iconic Shark Guitar to their collections!
- Krista Rogers
Aug 1, 2016
The new instrument is also perfect for confusing your bandmates when you tell them that your biggest musical influence is a skeleton.
- Anime & Manga, Entertainment, Japan
- (Brook • guitar • instrument • music • One Piece • Shimamura)
Here’s how manga hit One Piece is like sex, politics, and religion
- Casey Baseel
Jul 20, 2016
Incident at Japanese pub shows that manga and anime can make for dangerous conversation fodder, depending on who’s in earshot.
Luffy from One Piece swaps genders for new, improbably-proportioned female anime figurine
- SoraNews24
Jul 4, 2016
It looks like Luffy has, um, grown a little.
One Piece anime character now appears as Japanese wagashi tea ceremony sweet
- Oona McGee
Jun 26, 2016
Centuries of Japanese tradition welcomes a contemporary anime character to its ranks.
- Japan
- (anime • Japanese tea ceremony • manga • One Piece • sweets • tea ceremony • wagashi)
One Piece pirates let themselves go, get back into shape with chubby new figure series
- Casey Baseel
Jun 23, 2016
Looks like Luffy and his anime cohorts have been enjoying too many high-calorie meals while sailing the high seas.
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