One Piece in Sweden

Manga
In Sweden, One Piece has been published as a manga since 2003 and still being published, with over 60 volumes currently available. As of volume 36, its publishing house, Bonnier Carlsen, decided to publish One Piece at most six times a year to not catch up with the Japanese release of the manga.

The Swedish manga expert and translator Simon Lundström translated the first 54 volumes from Japanese to Swedish. After that, Swedish manga translator Magnus Johansson took over the translating job, and has translated all the volumes released since.

Many names are translated from it's original Japanese form to Swedish. For example; Kokoro is named Hjärta (Heart) in Swedish and Mr. 2 Bon Kurei is named Herr 2 Hägg 'o' Syrén which means "Mr 2 Bird cherry 'n' lilac". This translation might sound strange at first, but the name is in fact derived from the Swedish expression "mellan hägg och syrén" ("Between bird cherry and lilac") which refers to a time of the year between the blooming of bird cherry and lilac. This is meant to correspond to the character's Japanese name, Bon Kurei. (Bon Kurei is a night in the Obon festival). Also, some of the characters' names are spelled differently in Swedish, for example, Luffy is named Ruffy. For some reason, several characters are re-named for unknown reasons (such as Brook becoming Brukk – this is, however, because "Brukk" in Swedish is pronounced the same way as "Brook" is pronounced in English – or the Supernova Apoo becoming Pao).

The overall perspective of the Swedish publicing is very negative, since the editing is careless and bad (erasing interesting and after all meaningful parts). Many Swedish manga fans, though, are very satisfied with the translation.

Anime
The anime is yet to be shown on TV, which probably never will happen. The FUNimation DVDs (as well as Movie 8) however is being released at some stores, the most known one where the DVDs are being sold the most is Science Fiction Bokhandeln (The Science Fiction Bookstore). The DVDs are currently at season 3.