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[Updated] Live-action One Piece movie announced by Chinese production company

Casey Baseel
Jun 17, 2016
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Investment groups says it has “bought the copyright” to the hit anime and manga franchise, plus cast Chinese idol singer in a key role.

Anime & Manga, China, Entertainment, Japan
(anime • Live action • manga • movies • One Piece)

66-year-old cosplayer shows you’re never too old for anything!【Photos】

KK Miller
Jun 13, 2016

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.” – Chili Davis

Anime & Manga, Culture, Entertainment, Japan
(Attack on Titan • cosplay • Dragon Ball • One Piece)

Multi-talented artist creates moving One Piece manga scenes with three paper cups, lots of skill

Meg Murphy
Apr 29, 2016

One Luffy, three cups… and the result is one mesmerizing piece of art!

Entertainment, Japan
(3D art • anime • Luffy • One Piece • paper cup art)

High-class One Piece timepiece is perfect for punctual pirates who love anime

Casey Baseel
Apr 26, 2016

A watch fit for a Pirate King.

Anime & Manga, Japan
(anime • fashion • manga • One Piece • TAG Heuer • watches)

New Dragon Ball, Death Note, and One Piece attractions coming to Universal Studios Japan

Casey Baseel
Apr 19, 2016

Some of the biggest stars of anime and manga are going to be spending their summer at the Osaka theme park.

Anime & Manga, Entertainment, Japan
(Amusement Parks • anime • Death Note • Dragon Ball • manga • One Piece • theme parks • Universal Studios Japan)

Stay strong, Kumamoto! Luffy and his voice actress are cheering for you!【Video】

KK Miller
Apr 19, 2016

Here comes a message of encouragement from the voice of one of anime’s most famous seafaring heroes.

Entertainment, Japan, News
(Kumamoto • Luffy • Mayumi Tanaka • One Piece • support • videos)

Miniature works of art are reminiscent of Laputa, One Piece floating islands

Meg Murphy
Feb 17, 2016

These intricately designed, hand-made creations look like they’d be right at home in a Studio Ghibli production or fantasy game.

Internet
(amazing artwork • anime • Fantasy • floating islands • Laputa • One Piece)

Good as the One Piece treasure: marriage registration certificates with the Straw Hat Pirates

KK Miller
Feb 11, 2016

Have the toughest pirate team that’s ever sailed the seas decorate your official marriage paperwork.

Japan
(anime • Luffy • marriage • Nami • One Piece)

Sanji has a last name?!? One Piece mangaka focusing on “Black Legs” in upcoming chapters

KK Miller
Jan 20, 2016

We thought Sanji was like Prince, Usher or Madonna. Turns out we were wrong.

Global, Japan
(Eiichiro Oda • last name • One Piece • Sanji • Vinsmoke)

New One Piece movie’s summer 2016 release date confirmed

Jamie Koide
Dec 9, 2015

Get ready for another One Piece Film Gold, hitting theaters July 23, 2016!

Japan
(anime • Eiichiro Oda • gold • movies • One Piece • release date • summer blockbusters)

One Piece x Arita porcelain collaboration is colorful, fun and worthy of artistic display

Kay
Nov 27, 2015

Once again, a popular anime has been turned into a work of traditional Japanese art — with vividly stunning results!

Japan
(anime • art • manga • One Piece • plates • porecelain)

Police in Japan arrest five men connected with illegal upload of One Piece manga and translation

Casey Baseel
Nov 21, 2015

Pirate manga pirates promptly pinched by prefectural police.

Internet, Japan
(anime • crime • manga • One Piece • piracy)

Pirate action ahoy! New feature-length One Piece anime to air in December!

Kay
Nov 12, 2015

Eighteen years after making its serial debut in the Weekly Shōnen Jump Magazine, Eiichiro Oda’s internationally popular manga/anime franchise One Piece is still going strong, even being turned into a Kabuki performance this year.

Well, with the Holiday Season approaching, it seems One Piece fans will have a huge treat to look forward to just in time for Christmas. Yes, a brand new feature-length One Piece anime will air on TV next month, and details have just recently been released. The anime, titled One Piece — Adventure of Nebulandia, will be broadcast on Japanese national TV on December 19, and fans should be thrilled to see some familiar enemies from the past!

Japan
(anime • Eiichiro Oda • feature-length episode • new • One Piece • TV)

New magazine features behind the scenes stories of manga stars’ careers, DVDs of them at work

Casey Baseel
Nov 3, 2015

Japanese publisher Shueisha puts out a number of manga anthologies, but by far the jewel in the publisher’s crown, and really the entire Japanese comics industry, is Weekly Shonen Jump. For decades, the magazine has been home to the biggest manga hits, whose creators achieve legendary status in the hearts of legions of fans.

As a matter of fact, so many of Japan’s best-loved manga writers and artists achieved fame through Weekly Shonen Jump that Shueisha is getting self-referential with a new magazine set to launch soon, in which each issue highlights a different manga artist and comes bundled with a DVD of the creator at work and tracing paper so you can try to duplicate the results.

Japan
(anime • Dragon Ball • manga • Naruto • One Piece)

The top 20 anime/manga series Japanese fans would like to show to their kids

Krista Rogers
Oct 22, 2015

It’s time for another fun survey from anime informational website Charapedia!

The site recently asked 10,000 of its users to share their top picks for the top 20 manga/anime series that they would like to show to their children. If you think that the results are full of fluff and potty humor, you may be surprised at some of the more thought-provoking choices on the list.

Japan
(anime • children • Clannad • manga • Naruto • One Piece • Parenting)

One Piece kabuki adaptation officially opens in Tokyo, cast photos begin to surface online

Krista Rogers
Oct 12, 2015

Even 18 years after its initial publication, One Piece continues to enjoy unprecedented popularity around the world, no doubt thanks to the grueling efforts of series’ creator Eiichiro Oda. Since July, fans have been waiting with bated breath after new details emerged regarding a kabuki stage version of the beloved franchise, but that wait is now over–October 7 marked the opening performance of the play, and we’ve finally been treated to some pictures of the cast!

Japan
(anime • kabuki • manga • One Piece • plays)

One Piece manga creator’s work schedule is absolutely insane

Casey Baseel
Oct 9, 2015

Man, being a professional manga artist must be a great life, right? For passionate and artistic individuals, it’s hard to imagine a sweeter deal than making a living just by dreaming and drawing, thinking up new worlds and bringing them to life.

And things must be even better if you’re the creator of a hit series, since not only are you bringing joy to thousands, or even millions, of fans, you’re also getting paid handsomely to do it. But even if you’re convinced you’ve got the skills to make it as a manga pro, before you go quitting your desk job you might want to check out the insane schedule of the most successful artist working in the industry today, One Piece’s Eiichiro Oda.

Japan
(anime • crazy • manga • One Piece)

Stacked One Piece figure for grown-ups costs a stack of cash, has nice…face 【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Oct 7, 2015

The success of One Piece really is amazing. Not only does it remain a perpetual favorite among its target demographic of young boys, the manga and anime franchise has managed to retain a surprisingly large amount of its original fanbase some 18 years after its first issue was published.

Since One Piece has held the attention of fans for so long after drawing them in as children, there must be something to creator Eiichiro Oda’s pirate tale that appeals to adult men as strongly, or maybe even more strongly, than to children. Maybe it’s the series’ core theme of long-term friendship, which grown-ups can more acutely understand. Maybe the way the stakes keeps getting higher for Luffy and his crew strikes a chord with fans who see it as a parallel to the way life throws more responsibilities and pressures at you as you get older.

Or maybe guys just like Oda’s penchant for drawing ridiculously stacked female characters which are then immortalized in plastic, as with this new Boa Hancock figure.

Japan
(anime • figures • manga • One Piece)

One Piece characters’ nationalities revealed, but fans have mixed opinions

Jamie Koide
Oct 1, 2015

One of the great things about the One Piece series is how intricate the world it’s set in is. Loosely based on historical colonial times, it’s familiar enough for readers to feel comfortable with, yet different enough to create a sense of magic and intrigue. Though originally written in Japanese, the manga hints that characters in the series also speak English, Spanish, French, and a handful of other languages.

It might not seem too farfetched, then, that some fans were curious about what nationalities the characters would have been had the story taken place in our world instead, and this is exactly what one reader asked the creator of the series. The answer they received wasn’t quite what some fans had in mind, though…

Internet, Japan
(2channel • characters • Eiichiro Oda • manga • nationalities • One Piece • straw hat pirates)

Japanese businessmen list the top 10 manga characters they wish were actually their bosses

Preston Phro
Sep 26, 2015

One of the great things about fiction, regardless of the genre or medium, is the way it lets us envision the way we want the world to be. Fiction can have a profound effect on us and even serve as an ideal to strive for. Which, now that we think about it, is kind of like what a good boss should be — a role model for their workers!

So, taking this thinking to its natural conclusion, we have to wonder: What fictional characters would make the best bosses? Jack Sparrow might be fun to watch, but we would hate to be in his crew! A recent online poll asked a group of Japanese businessmen in their thirties which manga character would be their favorite pick for their boss. A good question, indeed. Find out how they responded below!