Cover Page

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.

Types of Cover Pages
Since the beginning of the manga's serialization, several types of cover pages can be found.
 * Straw Hats and Animals
 * Color Spread
 * Cover Story
 * Where are they now series

Straw Hats and Animals
This type of cover page was the first to be introduced. They depict 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.

In the beginning this type of cover could show several members and appeared randomly like the color panels, but since Chapter 120, a pattern became apparent:


 * 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 has only one cover per series and all of them have had one. (i.e. The series contains as many members as the crew contains at the time of the series.)

Notes :
 * The series usually starts with Luffy, there is only one exception which is Chapter 263 where it is Nami.
 * Starting from Chapter 125, Vivi and Carue are included in the series.

Color Spread
The color spreads are special, double pages that are colorized for Shonen Jump releases. Once printed in the collected volumes (tankōbon) they are as black and white as the rest of the pages, but can be seen again reprinted color in the Colorwalks.


 * They do not have special frequency and is the only kind of cover that can appear in the middle of the other series types.
 * The One Piece logo is generally modified so as to follow the theme of the cover.

Note :
 * Several color spreads have appeared in some variation in song Openings for the anime and other One Piece media. {Cf List of Color Spreads.}

Cover Stories
These covers are chapters within chapters. They depict 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 dedicated title.

The first volume of the cover story starts with 短期集中連載第　xx弾 (Short Term Cover Page Serial Volume xx), where xx is the n° of the cover story: 11-18. Straw Hat's Separation Serial
 * 1) Buggy's Crew: After the Battle!
 * 2) Diary of Coby-Meppo
 * 3) Jango'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) Enel's Great Space Operations
 * 10) CP9's Independent Report
 * 11) From the Decks of the World

Where Are They Now?
Where are they now? started to appear in Chapter 424 (i.e. Just after Vivi is reintroduced in the Straw Hat and Animals series). They are similar to the Cover Stories in that they have a specific title and a dedicated numeration, but instead of focusing on one character, one cover corresponds to someone different (generally a friend).


 * Where are they now? series occur between Straw Hats and Animals and Cover Stories.

Cover Series
Besides the color spreads (which are random), the other type of covers are now displayed according to the following logic alternatively:

One Cover Story -&gt;one Straw Hats and Animals series (Luffy, other crew member, Vivi, Carue)-&gt; One Where are they now? series.

Exceptions :
 * There wasn't a Where are they now series? before the Straw Hat Separation Serial cover stories, but they can be considered as a mix of both types.
 * The 3 first cover stories contain covers which are a mix between Cover Spread and Straw Hat and animals. They are single page with One Piece logo and, since they appear in the Colorwalks, they may have been initially in color.
 * Since this type of cover does not appear anymore, they are not considered a type. Here is the list of the chapters with such covers:
 * Chapter 38
 * Chapter 41
 * Chapter 44
 * Chapter 45
 * Chapter 49
 * Chapter 56
 * Chapter 64
 * Chapter 69
 * Chapter 82
 * Chapter 86
 * Chapter 94
 * Chapter 103
 * Chapter 137
 * Chapter 144
 * Chapter 165
 * Chapter 194

List of Color Spreads
A listing of Color Spread chapters. All color panels and spreads can be seen here.

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