One Piece

One Piece
One Piece is an ongoing manga written and drawn by Eiichiro Oda. Created in Aug. 1997 and has currently gotten over 450+ chapters.

History
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 * History of One Piece

Eiichiro Oda was inspired by Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump at a young age. As a child he was inspired by Vikings and he was aspired to become an manga artist. Later he created Pandaman for Yudetamago's Kinnikuman. In 1992 at age 17, he summited the manga called Wanted. In 1994 at age 19 he became an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsukai for Rurouni Kenshin. Before Aug. 1997, he created an 2 one-shot stories called Romance Dawn 1 and Romance Dawn 2.

In Aug. 1997 Oda started the manga series called "One Piece" It was frist serialized in Weekly Jump of Shonen Jump magazine owned by Shueisha. At this time, One Piece became the most popular manga in Japan and around the world.

The anime series was started by Toei Animation in Oct. 1999. By 2002, One Piece went around the world. Viz (Now Viz Media) adopted the manga. 4Kids dubbed One Piece, which was criticized and hated by fans for it's horrible editing and censorship.

Originally, Oda wanted his series to run for 5 years (meaning One Piece could have ended in 2002) But he went longer then expected and has no idea how many more years his story will be.

Story
It's a story of Monkey D. Luffy who was inspired by Red-Haired Shanks. At the start of the series, 22 years ago in 1500 an Pirate name Gol D. Roger the Pirate King was executed, before he died he told the crowd to search for his treasure, the "One Piece". His death sparked the Golden Age of Pirates as countless pirates sets out to look for his treasure. Luffy wanted to be an next Pirate King and sets out to gather crews and begin his adventures.

One Piece is more then just an pirate story, through the years One Piece has taken new directions in the story, One Piece is the adventurous story that takes place in the oceans; as they trek from islands to island.

One Piece is known for it's complex storyline, bizarre characters, battle mixtures, character developments, in-depth details of the story, amazing plot twists, mixtures of emotions, mixtures of goofiness and serious levels, and unique story and sub-plots.