One Piece
From Conservapedia
One Piece (Japanese: wanpiisu) is a Japanese manga series by mangaka Eiichiro Oda, first running in 1997. It began airing as an anime in 1999, airing on Fuji TV.
One Piece is best categorized as "steampunk" or an action/comedy. It is about a young pirate named Monkey D. Luffy, who wishes to find the mystical treasure "One Piece" and become "Pirate King". He ate the "Gum-Gum Fruit" (Japanese: Gomu Gomu no Mi), which enables him to stretch his body like rubber in ingenious ways. Joining him in his quest are Roronoa Zoro, a powerful but arrogant swordsman seeking to become the greatest swordsman in the world; Nami, a money-grabbing navigator who used to be a thief but now wants to draw a map of the world; 'Usopp, a long-nosed cowardly sharpshooter dreaming of becoming a brave warrior of the sea; Sanji, a trash-talking, chain-smoking, flirtatious chef who wants to find the mythic ocean "All Blue"; Tony-Tony Chopper, a humanoid reindeer dreaming of traveling the world to cure people; Nico Robin, an archaelogist who wants to find the true history of the world; Franky, a cyborg, delinquent, shipwright who want to build a ships capable of sailing to the end of the Grand Line; and Brook, a skeleton, who ate the ""Yomi Yomi no Mi""(which enables him to come back to life after dead) , a musician and he made the promise to Laboon.
The story stresses about the importance of friendship, and it also demonstrates the importance of fighting for one's dreams. This has made it one of the most popular manga series in Japan.
In America it is published by Viz Media.
In Philippine it is published by GMA 7.
Plot Summary
Luffy tries to gather a pirate crew to become a pirate king. They seek the legendary treasure "Onepiece" Twenty two years ago, the legendary pirate king, Gol D. Roger was executed. His final words told that his treasure known as "One Piece" was hidden somewhere on the Grand Line. This started the Age of Pirates. Now, twenty two years later, seventeen year old Monkey D. Luffy desires to find One Piece, and become the Pirate King. But to do this, he needs a crew.[1]
To date the series has accumulated over 500 chapters (to out this in context, this is more than ten years work) in comic form and more than 350 episodes of television. Assuming the manga runs right to the end, it is not too fantastic to suggest that the series could accumulate another 300 chapters before it finishes.
