One Piece
ワンピース (One Piece)
Demographic	Shōnen
Genre	Adventure, Comedy
Manga: One Piece
Author	Eiichiro Oda
Publisher	Shueisha
[show]Other publishers: Tong Li Comics Glénat Conrad Chuang Yi (Chinese) Daiwon C.I. Gollancz Manga Viz Media Schibsted Forlagene Bonnier Carlsen Carlsen Comics Sangatsu Manga Star Comics Jonesky Elex Media Komputindo Editorial Toukan Planeta DeAgostini Comics Comics House Carlsen Comics Siam Inter Comics
Serialized in	Weekly Shonen Jump Shonen Jump
Original run	August 4, 1996 – (ongoing)
Volumes	47 volumes with 479 chapters
TV anime
Director	Konosuke Uda Munehisa Sakai
Studio	Toei Animation
Network	Fuji TV GMA 7
[show]Other networks: Cartoon Network YTV Animax, RTL II, Tele 5 Cartoon Network RCTI Italia 1 GMA 7 Toonami Cartoon Network SIC Cartoon Network and Network Ten K3 Jetix Canal 5 and XHGC NT1 Jetix Mangas KBS, Tooniverse, Champ TV, Anione, Animax TITV
Original run	October 20, 1999 – (ongoing)
Episodes	Japanese: 330 of 334 (current) English: 110 of 113 (current)
OVA: Defeat Him! The Pirate Ganzak
Director	Goro Taniguchi
Studio	Production I.G
Episodes	1
Released	July 26, 1998
Runtime	30 minutes
Movies
One Piece: The Movie (2000) Clockwork Island Adventure (2001) Chopper's Kingdom on the Island of Strange Animals (2002) Dead End Adventure (2003) Curse of the Sacred Sword (2004) Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island (2005) The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle (2006) Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and the Pirates (2007) Episode of the Island of Perpetual Winter (2008)
One Piece TCG
There has recently been a One Piece card game introduced, created by Bandai, but due to lack of players, sales, and quality, it has been put on hold. Published in: Bandai Amigo Spiele
Special Episodes
Adventure in the Ocean's Navel Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, HUGE Dream! Protect! The Last Great Performance The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy
Video Games
See: List of One Piece games

Growth and popularity

The One Piece manga began its serial run in issue #34 of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on August 4, 1997, while the anime adaptation produced by Toei Animation premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999.

Eiichiro Oda originally planned One Piece to last five years, and he had already planned out the ending, but he found himself enjoying the story too much to end it in that amount of time, and now has no idea how long it will take to reach that point.^[1] Nevertheless, the author states (as of July 2007) that the ending is still the one he had decided on from the beginning, and he is committed to seeing it through to the end, no matter how many years it takes.^[2]

One Piece is the third highest selling manga in the history of Weekly Shonen Jump,^[3] (behind Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo [Kochi Kame] and Dragon Ball) and is currently their most acclaimed and all-time third-best-selling title in Japan. The manga is so well-liked that it is the first to increase the sales of Weekly Shonen Jump in eleven years.^[4] Volume 25 of One Piece holds a manga sales record in Japan, with 2,630,000 units sold in its first printing alone; as of Volume 46, the series has sold over 140,000,000 copies domestically, and is the fastest manga to reach sales of 100,000,000.