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 manga is translated from Japanese to Swedish by Simon Lundström, Swedish manga expert and translator.

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 something like "Mr 2 Bird cherry 'n' lilac". Also, some of the names are spelled differently, 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).

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.