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Note, this is not a official manga guide. Viz media and Funimation do not take any part in this.
One Piece the Manga Guide!
One Piece is a adventure/comedy manga by the manga author Eiichiro Oda. It tells the story of Monkey D Luffy who wants to be the king of the pirates and find the legendary treasure One Piece! Through this quest he meets great Namaka that he will treasure forever. But not every pirate is good as he and his friends see in the grand line. It may be tough but believe Luffy and his friend's will make it through!
The start!
Eiichiro Oda was born on January 1st 1975 in Kumamoto Kumamoto. In his younger years he was inspired by the popular anime series Dragon Ball to be a manga artist. He was imspired to make it a pirate series by a cartoon in Japan called Vick the Viking. When he was 17 he submitted his work Wanted! and won several awards including second place in the coveted Tezuka Award. This got him into a job at the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. Where he worked as a assitant to Shinobu Kaitani's series Suizan Police Gang. When he was 19 He worked as a assistant to Nobuhiro's Watsuki's Ruroni Kenshin, before winning the hop step award for new artist. During that time he drew two pirate themed one shot stories called Romance Dawn. It stared Monkey D. Luffy with a different back ground each time in a different situation. The story was published late 1996- early 1997. In 1997, One Piece made it's appearance for the first time in Weekly Shonen Jump and soon became one of the most popular manga in Japan.
American Manga Release
The series is released in North America by Viz media.The series first chapter was released with the first issue of Monthly Shonen Jump in November 2002. The first volume was published June 2003. 6 years later and still counting 21 volumes of One Piece has been released. Starting in the January 2010 issue(Comes out in December) of Monthly Shonen Jump the magazine will skip all the way to the Impel Down arc. There rest of the manga(volumes 24-53) Will be released starting in January with 5 volumes a month.
The saga's
East blue saga: The arc that started all! From Luffy's gaining of the straw hat when he was just a boy, to when he left Louge town. Read all about it here OR buy the Volumes 1-12!
Baroque Works saga: This time Luffy and his crew must help get one girl to her country before a serious civil war starts; But it will not be that easy getting there when one crew member gets sick....
Read all of this arc here or in Volumes 13-23 of One Piece!
From this point on know that Shonen Jump magazine are not this far with the manga, so there may be spoilers!!
Skypedia saga: A member of Baroque Works has secretly gotten into Going Merry. Luffy accepts this crew mate after seeing the users devil fruit powers. But soon after that a ship falls from the sky, the people on the ship say they live on Sky Island, what could be going on here?
Read the rest of this arc in volumes 24-32 of One Piece coming soon to book retailers and online stores in 2010!
Cp9 Saga: After the straw hats land back safely from their adventure in Skypedia, the soon find themselves making new enimes one after another like Silver Fox,the marine Akoji, the Franky family and even one of their own crew mates! Talking about crew mates one of them is gone?! What is going on, find out in volumes 32-44 of One Piece coming soon to book stores and retailers in 2010!
White Beard War saga: With the whole straw hat crew together again(with a brand new crew mate!)They head into Sabaody Archipelago, and after many events the straw hats get them selves into a fight with Kuma, a war lord of the sea! He sends them all to different places! Luffy is sent to Amazon Lily, a land with only women. After Luffy proves himself to the leader, Hancock, Luffy learns that his big brother Ace is in Impel Down, a under water Jail cell! Luffy decides to go in and save his brother will he make it in time? Read about it starting in volume 46 in 2010! Also read the Impel down arc, the latest arc of One Piece starting in the January 2010 issue of One Piece!
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