

The manga series was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. Several companies have developed various types of merchandising such as a trading card game and numerous video games. Additionally, Toei has developed thirteen animated feature films, one OVA and eleven television specials. With his crew of pirates, named the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the world’s ultimate treasure known as “One Piece” in order to become the next Pirate King.The manga has been adapted into an original video animation (OVA) produced by Production I.G in 1998, and an anime series produced by Toei Animation, which began broadcasting in Japan in 1999. Luffy, a young man whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. It has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine since July 19, 1997, with the chapters collected into 85 tankōbon volumes to date. One Piece (Japanese: ワンピース ? Hepburn: Wan Pīsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda.
