Cover Page

Introduction
This article deals with One Piece Manga Cover Pages, that is to say the first page introducing every chapter. Only two of the early chapters do not have a specific cover page : chapter 4 and chapter 6.

Type of cover page
Since the beginning of the manga, several types of cover pages can be found.
 * Straw Hat and animals
 * Cover Stories
 * Where are they now series
 * Cover Spread

Straw Hats cover pages
This cover pages were the first to be introduced. They depicted one or several Straw Hats member in a fantasy scene. For most of them they show the crew member along with animals since Oda claims he likes drawing them.

At the beginning this type of cover could show several members and appears randomly like the color panels, however starting from chapter 120, a logic starts to appears :


 * This type of cover only appears as a transition between 2 cover stories
 * There is only one straw hat per cover
 * There is always one animal
 * Each Straw Hat as only one cover per serie and all of them have one (ie the serie contains as many members as the crew contains at the time of the serie)

Note :

The serie usually starts with Luffy, there is only one exception which is the Chapter 263 where it is Nami.

Starting from Chapter 423, Vivi is included in the serie, Carue also starts to be included starting from the next one (Chapter 475). They takes the last 2 covers of the serie.

Color Spread
The color spread are special double pages that are colorized for Shonen Jump release. They do not have special frequency and are the only one that can appear in the middle of the other type series

Cover stories
These covers are chapters inside the chapters. They depicte the adventures of a character (generally an enemy) after the Straw Hats have encountered him. Each cover corresponds to one volume of the Cover story (around ~40 per story) and has a dedicate title.

The first volume of the cover story starts with Short Term Cover Page Serial Volume xx, where xx is the n° of the cover story :
 * 1)  Buggy's Crew: After the Battle!
 * 2)  Koby and Helmeppo's Chronicle of Toil
 * 3)  Django's Dance Paradise
 * 4)  Hatchan's Sea-Floor Stroll
 * 5)  Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah
 * 6)  Ace's Great Blackbeard Search
 * 7)  Gedatsu's Accidental Blue-Sea Life
 * 8)  Miss Goldenweek's "Operation: Meet Baroque Works"
 * 9)  Eneru's Great Space Operations
 * 10)  CP9's Independent Report
 * 11)  Straw Hat's Separation Serial

Where are they Now covers
Where are they now started to appear at Chapter 424 (ie just after Vivi is reintroduced in the Straw Hat and animals serie). They are similar to Cover series one (They have a specific title and a dedicated numeration) but instead of focusing on one character, each cover corresponds to someone different (generally a friend).

The where are they now serie occurs between a Straw Hat and animal and a Cover story

Cover and chapters
Beside the color spread which are random, the other type of covers are now displayed according to the following logic alternatively :

one cover story->one straw hat serie (Luffy,other crew member, Vivi, Carue)-> one Where are they now serie

Exceptions :

The 2 first cover stories contain both cover spread and Straw Hat and animals types of cover page amongst them. Also they appear in the Colorwalks, so they may have been initially in color.

There is no Where are they now series before the Straw Hat separation crew cover storry but it can be considered as a mix of both types.