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In June 2002, Animage readers voted One Piece to be the sixteenth best new anime of 2001 [61] and voted it sixteenth place in 2004 in the category Favorite Anime Series. [62] In a 2005 web poll by Japanese television network TV Asahi One Piece was voted sixth most popular animated TV series. [63]
Following the execution of "King of the Pirates" Gold Roger, pirates take to the seas to search for his legendary hidden treasure, the "One Piece". 22 years later, Monkey D. Luffy is one of those searching for the treasure. As a child, Luffy unwittingly ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, a "Devil Fruit" that gives him elasticity powers.
Luffy has appeared in every One Piece video game to date, including Jump Super Stars and Jump Ultimate Stars, and is featured in the 2006 Dragon Ball Z-One Piece-Naruto crossover game Battle Stadium D.O.N. Luffy, Son Goku and Naruto Uzumaki were avatars in the MMORPG Second Life for a Jump Festa promotion, "Jumpland@Second Life". [46]
Iñaki Godoy takes on the lead role in One Piece, playing the future King of the Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy. Prior to being cast in One Piece, Godoy primarily acted in Spanish-language Mexican TV ...
Additionally, One Piece is the only work whose volumes have ranked first every year in Oricon's weekly comic chart existence since 2008. [149] [150] One Piece has also sold well in North America, charting on Publishers Weekly ' s list of best-selling comics for April/May 2007 and numerous times on The New York Times Manga Best Seller list.
The show is set in a comical version of the Stone Age, with features and technologies that resemble mid-20th-century suburbia in the United States.The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts characteristic of modern life. [8]
The One Piece anime series, based on the manga of same name, has spawned thirteen television specials that aired on Fuji TV. Of these specials, the first four, as well as the sixth, eighth, tenth and eleventh are original stories created by the anime staff, while the fifth, seventh, ninth, twelfth and thirteenth specials are alternate re ...
The first season of the One Piece anime series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Kounosuke Uda.The season is adapted from the first twelve volumes of the manga by Eiichiro Oda and aired on Fuji Television from October 20, 1999, through March 7, 2001, totaling 61 episodes.