One Piece is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been published in Shueisha Weekly’s shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Jump since July 1997, and the individual chapters have been compiled into 105 tankōbon volumes as of March 2023. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the Pirates of Straw Hut. , where he explores the Grand Line in search of a mythical treasure called “One Piece”; to become the next king of the pirates. The manga spawned a media franchise that was turned into a film festival produced by Production I.G is an anime series produced by Toei Animation that began airing in 1999. In addition, Toei has created fourteen animated feature films, one original video animation, and thirteen television specials. Different companies have developed different types of merchandising and media, such as trading card games and many video games. The manga series has been licensed for English release in North America and the United Kingdom by Viz Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment. The anime series was licensed for English language release in North America by 4Kids Entertainment in 2004 before the license was revoked and acquired by Funimation in 2007. One Piece has been praised for its storytelling, world-building, visuals, characterization, and humor. It has received numerous awards and is recognized by critics, reviewers, and readers as one of the best manga of all time. As of August 2022, over 516.6 million copies have been distributed in 61 countries and regions worldwide, making it the best-selling manga series of all time and the best-selling comic book series in print. Several volumes of the manga broke records with publication numbers, including the highest first printing of any book in Japan. In 2015 and 2022, One Piece set a Guinness World Record for “Most copies of the same comic book series published by a single author”. It was the best-selling manga for eleven consecutive years from 2008 to 2018 and is the only manga with an initial print run of more than 3 million volumes over a span of more than 10 years and the only one to have sold more than one million volumes. copies. . of over 100 published tankōbon volumes. One Piece is the only -volume manga to top the Oricon Weekly Comics chart every year since 2008.