One Piece
One Piece is a pirate adventure manga written by Eiichiro Oda, it was created in August 1997 and it first volume was released on December 24, 1997. Until now, it has been running for more than 16 years with 760 manga chapters, 660 anime episodes, 12 movies, 6 TV specials and 3 OVAs. One Piece manga has 345 million copies in print worldwide by November 2013 and it is consider the best selling manga of all time. It is the top selling manga series in Japan by series in 2013 and it has been taking the top four spots in the annual charts for 5th straight year.
One Piece is the story of a boy named Monkey D. Luffy who want to go on an adventure and becoming Pirate King. Along the way of his journey, he met many people who has become his friends and many who have join his crew members and become Straw Hats Pirates (The 'Straw Hats' are names after Luffy's hat that was given to him by a person who make him decided to be pirate, Red-Haired Shanks). The main focus of One Piece will have to be about pursuing one's dream and friendship as Luffy set sail and become pirate to pursuit his dream. Friendship or Nakama is another focus in One Piece that make it good and interesting. Nakama is a Japanese terms generally refer to comrade or friend. Luffy is a guy who love his nakama, believe in them, stand by them and help them in any situation, even if its mean to put his life on the line. The series is divided into arcs, each arc featuring its own setting and story in different island, each place that the the Straw Hats Pirates visit is always a new adventure with new people to meet, new friends to make and new circumstances that they have to face. If anyone looking to read or watch one of the best manga and anime, One Piece is the series that you should go to. Its will provide you will very good experience. It has great character development. Every character has their own past stories that make them unique, everyone have their own dreams and ambitions and all of these unique character come together and created one of the best crew ever. You will experience many greatest laugh and many other feels from this series. |