His pirate adventure One Piece, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1997, quickly became one of the most popular manga in Japan. The box itself isn’t too large but does need a bit of space if you’re planning on putting it in a bookshelf.

The box it came in is very visually aesthetic thus making it easier to display, it has a handle to carefully carry it as it is quite hefty and also includes Velcro so it can be opened and closed a lot easier for people who struggle with the paper tab type packaging the books seem to be in amazing quality and it even came with an A4-ish sized poster with two options for how you can pin it up! This box set includes volumes 1-23, which comprise the first two story arcs, East Blue and Baroque Works. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Eiichiro Oda began his manga career in 1992 at the age of 17, when his one-shot cowboy manga Wanted! You may block cookies via standard web-browser settings, but this site may not function correctly without cookies.But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Oda went on to work as an assistant to some of the biggest manga artists in the industry, including Nobuhiro Watsuki, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists. Years later, Luffy sets off on his quest to find the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world.

They are constantly getting into fights with people to the death, but even if they should be dead (good or bad guys), the amount of people who actually die in these books can be count on one hand. Going into this I had very little knowledge of the series, I knew the main character could stretch, and he wanted to be a pirate.many of the books had knicks and tears on the spine, some of the books' back covers were creased as though they were preowned.