One Piece Complete Collection

The One Piece Complete Collection (ONE PIECE 総集編) is an alternative publication format for the One Piece manga, meant primarily to help new fans catch up on the series backstory as quickly and economically as possible.

In format and design, these Collections are essentially Weekly Shonen Jump volumes that focus exclusively on One Piece. Each compiles at least twenty chapters of the manga, interspersed with advertisements, interviews, and other exclusive bonuses (partly to compensate for their lack of tankōbon extras, such as the SBS and Usopp Gallery Pirates).

Overview
Like Jump, the Complete Collections are printed on B5-size pages of recycled paper, and keep most color art intact (unlike the smaller tankōbon volumes, which use higher-quality paper and grayscale most color art). Their bonus features include posters signed by Eiichiro Oda, supplemental postcards, and special tankōbon-sized dust-jackets.

The Complete Collections also follow a more irregular release schedule than the tankōbon; typically, five or six are released in monthly succession, followed by a years-long hiatus to allow the manga proper to accumulate more material. During the early 2000s, they were periodically re-released, with advertisements (internal and external) updated accordingly. But otherwise, logs characteristics remain unchanged, even the selling price.

Logs 1st to 10th
The First Log was issued in early 2005 (shortly after Shueisha's report that One Piece had sold 100 million tankōbon volumes faster than any previous manga). After a period of time to gauge interest, the Second through Seventh Logs were released as a monthly series, covering the storyline up through the Arabasta Saga.

In early 2008, a second monthly series was issued, beginning with the Eighth through Tenth Logs (originally announced as part of the first series, but dropped for unknown reasons) compiling the Sky Island Saga. These were followed by a re-release of all ten Logs in chronological order, ultimately segueing into the Eleventh through Fourteenth Logs (see below).

Near the end of 2009, a third series—this time bimonthly—was issued to coincide with the premiere of One Piece Film: Strong World. This series focused solely on re-releasing the first ten Logs, with no new materials besides updated advertisements.

Logs 11th to 20th
The Eleventh through Fourteenth Logs were released in mid-2009 (as part of the second series), compiling the Water 7 Saga. After this (and the third series), production lowered as a whole, with only a few scattered re-releases of previous Logs and singular releases of new ones.

In early 2011, the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Logs were issued, compiling the Thriller Bark Saga. Roughly eighteen months later, these were succeeded by the Seventeenth through Twentieth Logs, which compiled the Summit War Saga and completed the manga's pre-timeskip material. Subsequently, the series went on hiatus for nearly five years.

Logs 21st to 28th
In mid-2017, to commemorate the manga's twentieth anniversary, a new monthly series was issued for post-timeskip material. This series consisted of the Twenty-First through Twenty-Eighth Logs, compiling the Fish-Man Island Saga and the Dressrosa Saga.

Most notably, each of these Logs has contained a handwritten message from Eiichiro Oda, sharing (much like the earlier One Para series) behind-the-scenes trivia.

Omake
Interestingly, one of the features that most of the Logs share are the publication of some omakes, a Japanese word meaning extras or bonus. Those extra comics are three-page ones that tend to parody other genres.

These side comics were drawn when Oda was given three sheets of blank paper by his editor and told to draw anything.

Together with two other omakes published separately, the omakes originating in the Logs were later compiled into Straw Hat Theater. The omakes released from the 2nd to 7th Logs were also adapted in episodes 279-283 in October 2006. The omake originating in the Logs:
 * The 2nd Log: Report Time
 * The 3rd Log: Obahan Time
 * The 5th Log: No Honor Time
 * The 6th Log: Chopper Man
 * The 7th Log: Monster Time
 * The 10th Log: Märchen Time
 * The 13th Log: Family Time
 * The 14th Log: Ed Sullivan Show
 * The 15th Log: Great Detective Loomes
 * The 19th Log: Circus Time
 * The 20th Log: RPG Time

The Chopper Man franchise later expanded into multiple anime episodes and spin-off mangas.

Translation and Dub Issues
While the Complete Collection format has been adopted by a few markets outside of Japan (such as France), it remains foreign to all English-speaking regions.

From 2010 on, VIZ Media has offered a quasi-substitute in the form of Omnibus editions. These compile three tankōbon volumes into one—matching the typical Complete Collection in length—but are otherwise identical to the tankōbon, sharing none of the Complete Collections' features or formatting.

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