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The Cover or Title pages (more commonly called Door (扉) pages in Japan) of each manga chapter depict that chapter's title and number, together with a full-page illustration. These pages come in several different categories, each tied to a specific type of illustration; most notable are the so-called Cover Arcs, which are considered fully canon with the manga's storyline.

So far, only three chapters specifically lack cover pages: Chapter 4, Chapter 6 and Chapter 1024.

Color Spread
The Color Spreads (見開きカラー) are the most elaborate type of cover, each being a full-color, double-page illustration. They may depict any number of subjects, though most concentrate on group shots of the Straw Hat Pirates.

Color Spreads are published whenever a given Shonen Jump issue chooses to run One Piece as a Lead Color (巻頭カラー) feature. This may occur anywhere from five to twelve times a year, giving them an irregular frequency that often "interrupts" the more standard cover types (see below); on very rare occasions, Color Spreads may even be published for consecutive chapters.

On the Color Spreads, the One Piece logo is generally modified so as to follow the theme of the cover. Several Color Spreads have appeared in some animated variation, such as in Openings for the anime and other One Piece media.

There are several differences between the Shonen Jump release and the collected volume's release (tankōban):
 * The initial Jump releases print them in full color, adding a number of editorial tag-lines and advertisements.
 * The Complete Collection "Logs" reprint them almost identically, but with updated typesetting and advertisements.
 * The tankōban releases (and Shueisha Jump Remixes) reprint them in grayscale, and add the chapter title (and number) on an outer border.
 * The Color Walks reprint them in color on higher-quality paper, and remove all extraneous text.

While Jump prints most Color Spreads conventionally, i.e. on adjacent pages, a number are formatted as fold-outs, allowing the illustrations to stand clear of the "gutter" between pages. On rare occasions, still more unconventional printings occur:
 * A few, such as Chapter 507's, are "vertical" illustrations meant to be viewed width-wise.
 * Chapter 999's and Chapter 1000's depict two halves of a single illustration, meant to be joined.
 * Chapter 12's and Chapter 691's are fold-outs running three and four pages, respectively (in tankōban releases, the former is turned vertically and resized to one page; the latter is resized to two).
 * Chapter 304's, uniquely, sports a quasi-plot via a "Mugiwara Theatre" omake.
 * Chapter 863's, which features hundreds of minute head-shots, is replaced with a new (and significantly simpler) spread in the tankōban release.

A few Color Spreads are used as promotion or posters for an upcoming movie, such as that of Chapter 829.

Color Covers
A variant on Color Spreads, Color Covers feature single-page color illustrations. They are published whenever a given Shonen Jump issue chooses to run One Piece as a Center Color (センターカラー) feature. These were the most common color feature during the manga's first 100 chapters, but decreased sharply afterwards, and stopped entirely after Chapter 194.

Animal Theater
Animal Theater (アニマル劇場) is the second type of cover page to be introduced. They only appeared in the first half of the series. They depict one or several Straw Hats members (or Vivi and Karoo) in a fantasy scene with an animal. Oda has confirmed that he likes drawing animals, sometimes with unique coloring or appearance.

At first, the Animal Theater covers were randomly featured similar to Color Spread, even in the middle of Cover Story. However, starting Chapter 120 the covers were featured only between two Cover Stories or "Where are they now" series, and shows one character and animal in a rotation so that every member of the Straw Hats appear once before the next Cover Story. Starting with Chapter 580, minor characters randomly appear as well.

Short-Term Focused Title-Page Serials
Short-Term Focused Cover Page Serials (短期集中表紙連載), or "Cover Stories" for short, are stories of minor characters after the Straw Hats have encountered them. Each cover is referred to as one volume of the Cover story and has a dedicated title.

There has been several unique cases of Cover Stories, in which instead of following one character or group, it follows several:
 * Straw Hat's Separation Serial: Unlike the rest of Cover Stories, this focus on the main character's own adventure after the events on Sabaody Archipelago, and happens parallel to Luffy's adventures from Amazon Lily Arc to the Marineford Arc.
 * From the Decks of the World and From the Decks of the World: The 500,000,000 Man Arc: Those stories depicts the Straw Hats friends and families as they read the news of the Straw Hats' renewed adventures, from their return after two years of absence, to their new bounties.
 * The Stories of the Self-Proclaimed Straw Hat Grand Fleet: After going their separate ways after the Dressrosa Arc, the divisions' commanders of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet experience their own adventures. This is the first Cover Story to actually be divided to arcs.

Where They Are Now
A short-lived variant on cover arcs, Where They Are Now (あの人は今) depicts standalone "shots" of how various civilians are living their lives after meeting the Straw Hats. After the timeskip, it was supplanted by the "From the Decks of the World" series, which are counted as cover arcs proper.

Fan Requests
Fan Requests, as the name suggests, are cover one shots drawn per the request of readers. They only appear in the second half of the series, replacing Animal Theater. They sometimes depict the Straw Hats or other characters in bizarre situations.

Other Covers
Some covers do not fall under any of the previously mentioned types. Those cover would be regular covers (black and white single page, with the chapter's title and series name in the magazine release), but can be featured in the middle of Cover Stories. So far, there are seven such covers, those are the covers of chapters 29, 30, 31, 82, 432, 766 (with differently styled series title), and 839. Additionally, chapters 4, 6 and 1024 do not have a specific cover, and the chapter begins with the first page.

List of Color Spreads
A listing of Color Spread chapters. To display a thumbnail of a picture, click "[show]".

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