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 up to Volume 64, before Simon Lundström started translating again as of Volume 65 after he had won the Manga-case.

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 several parts). Many Swedish manga fans, though, are very satisfied with the translation.

List of Volumes
Volyme 1: Äventyret börjar (2003-03-25)

Volyme 2: Ruffy mot Clownen Buggy (2003-04-25)

Volyme 3: Skattjakten fortsätter (2003-05-25)

Volyme 4: Ulv i fårakläder (2003-06-25)

Volyme 5: Vem ska besegras? (2003-07-25)

Volyme 6: Löftet (2003-08-25)

Volyme 7: Den gamle (2003-09-25)

Volyme 8: Nu ska du dö! (2003-10-25)

Volyme 9: Namis tårar (2003-11-25)

Volyme 10: Karate under vattnet (2003-12-25)

Volyme 11: Den grymmaste skurken (2004-01-25)

Volyme 12: Början på legenden (2004-02-25)

Volyme 13: Simma lugnt (2004-03-25)

Volyme 14: Instinkt (2004-04-25)

Volyme 15: Full fart framåt! (2004-05-25)

Volyme 16: Du får som du vill! (2004-06-25)

Volyme 17: Kampen i snön (2004-07-25)

Volyme 18: Storebror (2004-08-25)

Volyme 19: Varning för monster! (2004-09-25)

Volyme 20: Slutstriden i Albana (2004-10-25)

Volyme 21: Utopia (2004-11-25)

Volyme 22: Hopp! (2004-12-25)

Volyme 23: Vivis äventyr (2005-01-25)

Volyme 24: Människans drömmar (2005-02-25)

Volyme 25: Hundramiljonersmannen (2005-03-25)

Volyme 26: Äventyret på gudarnas ö (2005-04-25)

Volyme 27: Ouverture (2005-05-25)

Volyme 28: Stridsdemonen (2005-08-25)

Volyme 29: Oratorium (2005-10-25)

Volyme 30: Vansinnesmelodin (2005-12-25)

Volyme 31: Vi väntar! (2006-02-25)

Volyme 32: Fågelsång (2006-04-25)

Volyme 33: Davy Stöldkamp!! (2006-07-25)

Volyme 34: Sjuvatten – havets huvudstad (2006-09-25)

Volyme 35: Kapten (2006-11-25)

Volyme 36: Den nionde rättvisan (2007-01-25)

Volyme 37: Herr Tom (2007-03-25)

Volyme 38: Raketmannen (2007-05-25)

Volyme 39: Strid om ett pris (2007-09-25)

Volyme 40: Växel (2007-11-25)

Volyme 41: Krigsförklaring (2008-03-25)

Volyme 42: Piraterna mot CP9 (2008-06-25)

Volyme 43: Hjältelegenden (2008-07-25)

Volyme 44: Vi ska hem (2008-09-25)

Volyme 45: Jag förstår att ni är upprörda (2008-11-25)

Volyme 46: Äventyret på spökenas ö (2009-01-25)

Volyme 47: Molnigt med spridda benskurar (2009-04-25)

Volyme 48: Ods äventyr (2009-08-25)

Volyme 49: Nattmaran Ruffy (2009-12-01)

Volyme 50: Åter Framme (2010-02-25)

Volyme 51: Duval Järnmask (2010-04-25)

Volyme 52: Landrövargänget (2010-07-25)

Volyme 53: Ruffys skuggor (2010-08-25)

Volyme 54: Ingen kan längre stoppa det (2010-10-25)

Volyme 55: Ett paradis i helvetet (2011-03-25)

Volyme 56: Tack! (2011-05-25)

Volyme 57: Den avgörande striden (2011-07-15)

Volyme 58: En era vid namn Vitskägg (2011-08-15)

Volyme 59: Portgas D Ace dör (2011-12-15)

Volyme 60: Lillebror (2012-03-13)

Volyme 61: Romance Dawn i den nya världen (2012-05-25)

Volyme 62: Äventyr på Fiskmansön (2012-07-25)

Volyme 63: Otohime och Tiger (2012-10-25)

Volyme 64: 100 000 mot 10 (2012-11-30)

Volyme 65: Untitled (TBA)

Volyme 66: Äventyret slutar (2013-06-05)

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.