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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]
Additionally, One Piece is the only work whose volumes have ranked first every year in Oricon's weekly comic chart existence since 2008. [150] [151] 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.
One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a 17-year-old boy whose body has gained the properties of rubber from accidentally eating a supernatural fruit, and his crew of diverse pirates, the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy's greatest ambition is to obtain the world's ultimate treasure, One Piece, and thereby become the next King of the Pirates.
Heartbreak is real -- even for cartoon characters. In a new episode of Disney XD's "Star vs the Forces of Evil," Star Butterfly is crushed when her boy-BFF Marco smooches another girl.
In the anime television series, Nami is voiced by Akemi Okamura. [5] In the 4Kids English adaptation, she is voiced by Kerry Williams. [6] In the Funimation English adaptation, her voice is provided by Luci Christian. [7] Nami is portrayed by Emily Rudd in the live-action adaptation of One Piece. [4]
In July 2023, it was revealed that the original Japanese voice actors from the One Piece anime will voice the characters for the Japanese dub. [72] All the characters are dubbed by the original Japanese voice cast, with the exception of Arlong being voiced by Hiroki Tōchi, replacing Jūrōta Kosugi from the anime for unspecified reasons. [72]
Moe (萌え, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ), sometimes romanized as moé, is a Japanese word that refers to feelings of strong affection mainly towards characters in anime, manga, video games, and other media directed at the otaku market.
The Powerpuff Girls stands as one of the very first anime-based cartoons to have actually developed a true Japanese animation based on an American project. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] G.I. Joe , despite it being primarily and notably an American cartoon, film, and toy line franchise, is notable for having quite a handful of anime influences in their animations.