Short-Term Focused Cover Page Serials

Short-Term Focused Cover Page Serials (短期集中表紙連載), usually shorted to Cover Stories or Cover Arcs, are a series of supplemental stories told through the cover pages of select chapters. With few exceptions, they focus on the activities of various antagonists and side-characters after their initial encounters with the Straw Hat Pirates.

Cover arcs follow a simpler, more decompressed format than the manga storyline proper; their pages are never subdivided into panels, and most of their dialogue and narration runs in a numbered page-bottom caption (their few dialogue balloons usually featuring pictograms instead of words). However, they are equally Canonical, many having introduced or explained elements pivotal to the main storyline – e.g. Vice-Admiral Garp.

Apart from the standard tankoban collections, these series have been compiled in several other sources, such as the databooks (Green in particular reprinting every one from the manga's first half). More recently, they have been reprinted in the One Piece Doors! collections, together with all the manga's non-colorspread cover pages.

Trivia

 * Currently only six cover stories have been adapted in the anime.
 * While "Buggy's Crew Adventure Chronicles", "Diary of Koby-Meppo", and "Straw Hat's Separation Serial" had been featured as cut-away episodes within arcs, "Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah", "The Stories of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Grand Fleet" and "Caribou's Kehihihihi in the New World" were featured as a segments within a single episode.
 * Jango's Dance Carnival is a loose adaptation of "Jango's Dance Paradise".

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