While it is not unusual for Japanese manga magazine editors to come to the U.S. for conventions, the ones who do are almost always men who edit shonen magazines like Shonen Jump (which carries Naruto and One Piece) or Monthly Shonen Magazine, home of Noragami. So it was a big deal that Yuki Sukemune, the editor of the […]
Welcome back to the Everlasting One Piece Readalong! On July 19, 1997, the series was unleashed on the world to bring us fun, hilarious pirate adventures. A very happy 20th anniversary to One Piece: here’s to many more years of the Straw Hats exploring the Grand Line and making new friends everywhere they go. If […]
Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates have been searching for the treasure known as the One Piece for the past 20 years, but the fact that they haven’t found it yet is money in the bank for Eiichiro Oda and his crew—One Piece is the top selling manga in the world, with over […]
In 1997, Eichiro Oda published the first chapter of One Piece in the Japanese weekly manga magazine Shonen Jump, introducing the world to Luffy, a teenager who couldn’t swim, who harbored dreams of being the pirate king.
