 Eiichiro Oda's long-running adventure manga One Piece celebrates its 20th anniversary this week in Shueisha's Weekly Shounen Jump magazine. The series began publishing on July 22, 1997. The people involved in the series, as well as fans and other industry personalities around the globe, are also commemorating the second decade of Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates' adventures through multiple projects including special illustrations, collaborations, and future adaptations. Anniversary Video One Piece Episode of East Blue: Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibouken (The Big Adventure of Luffy and His Four Crewmates)  Announced in this year's 30th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump, Episode of East Blue will be a two-hour special airing on August 26 at 9:00 p.m. on Fuji TV. The special will be a new work featuring reanimated scenes from the beginning of the series until the beginning of the Grand Line story arc.An anniversary special version of the first opening theme song "We Are" will also be featured. It will be performed by Hiroshi Kitadani and 100 other singers selected by lottery through an Avex campaign that lasted until July 5. Takashi Ootsuka (Smile Precure!) is directing the special, while series regular Tomohiro Nakayama will pen the anime. Masayuki Satou (One Piece Film: Gold) serves as the special's character designer and chief animation director. Announcement One Piece Magazine, Spin-off Manga, and Novel  Shueisha is publishing a time-limited three-part magazine to commemorate the franchise's 20th anniversary. The first volume of the magazine was published on July 7, which included an extensive interview with Oda, a spin-off manga, two novels, a picture book, and a realistic wanted poster of Monkey D. Luffy.The spin-off manga, titled Luff, reimagines the series by an alternate event. The novels, One Piece Novel A and Straw Hat Crew, focus on Portgas D. Ace's past and short episodes revolving around the series characters, respectively. The picture book tells the childhood story of Luffy, Ace, and Sabo. The second issue of One Piece Magazine will go on sale on August 4, and the third on September 1. Weekly Shonen Jump Special 33rd Issue The 872nd chapter of One Piece was released in the 33rd issue of Weekly Shounen Jump on July 17. The anniversary issue also featured a special cover illustration, an illustration message by Oda, a poster, a shogi-themed appendix page featuring the Straw Hat Pirates and characters of the New World arc, a reader appreciation corner, a one-shot manga by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (Toriko) about his and Oda's memories together, and a chapter from Ei Andou's (Majin no Gald!) One Piece Party spin-off manga spanning for six pages. School of Jump New Video Game, "Dawn" The franchise has received multiple video game adaptations for various platforms. This anniversary's special game, code-named "Dawn," will combine the efforts of Toei Animation's Hiroki Koyama (One Piece planning), Shueisha's Suguru Sugita (One Piece media supervisor) and Yuji Tsuzuki (One Piece game supervisor), and Bandai Namco Entertainment's Kouji Nakajima (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin planning manager). More information on the game will be revealed at a later date. Hello, One Piece Exhibition The franchise exhibit will travel overseas beginning with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, between August and October. More locations and dates will be announced soon. Mobile Games Anniversary Event Later this month, three mobile games will have in-game events to commemorate the series anniversary. These three will be One Piece: Treasure Cruise, One Piece: Thousand Storm, and One Piece: Grand Collection. Tokyo Pirates Festival Tokyo One Piece Tower will hold a Tokyo Pirates Festival beginning July 22. The event will consist of talk shows, written commentary exhibits, anniversary celebrations, contests, and a banquet with the people behind the theme park and other guests. The special program will be streamed on LINE Live. Limited-Time Free Digital Manga Volumes Through August 4, digital editions of the first 60 volumes of One Piece can be read for free in Japanese on a special Shounen Jump website. FiguartsZERO Anniversary Figures FigurartsZERO will release a series of limited edition anniversary figures of nine Straw Hat Pirates members in October and November 2017. These figures, which include alternative facial expressions, stand three to eight inches tall. Online Campaigns Aside from physical campaigns, the franchise expands its anniversary celebration on social networking sites. Camera and communication application SNOW released Luffy and Chopper stamps on July 21. Twitter is also including a straw hat emoji for users who use designated hashtags (#ONEPIECE, #ONEPIECE20th, #ワンピース, or #ワンピース20周年). Minna no Luffy Fan Art Event Shueisha is holding a campaign through August 31 where 100 works of fan art will be selected to form a special cover with a Luffy illustration by Oda for a future issue of Weekly Shounen Jump to be released later this year. Hollywood TV Series Adaptation A Hollywood live-action TV series of One Piece is currently in the works by Tomorrow Studios (Prison Break), a joint endeavor between producer Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios. Over the past two decades, One Piece has won numerous awards and also set records in sales thanks to its popularity. These are some of the achievements of the series:
One Piece has received multiple anime adaptations. The main series, which has been airing since October 20, 1999, is produced by Toei Animation. With a total of nine sagas and 46 story arcs to date, the anime will reach its 800th episode on August 6, 2017. Source: One Piece official site, Comic Natalie Statistics: PR Times, Oricon 1, Oricon 2, Oricon 3 |
| It's all great and congratulations on the 20th anniversary, but please don't make the live-action, it's gonna be horrendous no doubt. |
| A live action adaptation of One Piece... That's one way to celebrate an anniversary I suppose. |
| 20 years. T.T Congratulations to Oda for the 20th anniversary and as always thank you for everything. I don't really know how a live-action of OP would even work but I'll probably watch it just because it's OP. I am definitely looking forward to that special. |
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| There's no way live adaptation is gonna work... I mean, OP is clearly too cartoony for that, and with normal looking people instead of weird designs of some guys being twice the height of others for no particular reason, with most of them making weird face-expressions it just won't be the same. Especially since I doubt TV series will get good enough budget, to not make Luffy's power overly stupid in CGI :( |
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| Was scrolling through all the news grinning to myself, but lost that smile when i came to the end. WTF A LIVE ACTION OF ONE PIECE? D: Nooooo! |
| Oda did say in his comment about the movie that his one condition for the series is to never betray the fans, though I still find it hard to believe a live-action could work out well. |
| Congratz to Oda, one can just stand up and applaud the guy for what he has created and achieved so far. Here's to a lot more years of One Piece ruling on the top of the industry. |
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| All nice and good until Hollywood live-action adaptation..One Piece will never work live action,it's too cartoonish and it will look retarded and if you take that out it will be boring.One Piece Evolution TV Series I forgot, Happy One Piece day. |
| How about doing us all a favor and axing that live action TV series. I try to maintain some level of optimism when I hear about live action anime adaptations, but this one is destined to be shit. They shouldn't even waste their time or money. |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| prepare for "mah nigga Luffy" in the future. |
| Congratulations to Oda for the 20th anniversary! Wow I didn't know about a live action movie, that's awesome :D |
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| >Hollywood TV Series Adaptation Don't know how to feel about that one |
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| Happy anniversary One Piece! I remember getting into One Piece three years ago... it was a blast haha! |
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PekiNN said: Congratulations to Oda for the 20th anniversary! Wow I didn't know about a live action movie, that's awesome :D Not even a movie, a full-on 'merican live-action SERIES ! Personally, idk how to feel about that .-. Sword art online, cowboy bebop and now this ? Hollywood plz |
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| Ah 20 years of One Piece. What a milestone, grats. |
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| Congrats for 20th anniversary |
DatRandomDude said: PekiNN said: Congratulations to Oda for the 20th anniversary! Wow I didn't know about a live action movie, that's awesome :D Not even a movie, a full-on 'merican live-action SERIES ! Personally, idk how to feel about that .-. Sword art online, cowboy bebop and now this ? Hollywood plz What? Series? That's crazy!! |
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| Congratulations Oda and your series, I love you. |
| Wow 20th anniversary... Anyone feel old yet? Lol XD I wish I can join one of the game campaign... Sadly I don't understand Japanese... TvT |
 I'm starting to get embarrassed by my own forum signature line.. XD |
| Congratulations to Oda! I don't see a live adaptation working at all. |
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| Hope they get an African to play Usopp and a Brazilian to play Luffy XD That dawn game will be big. |
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| I love One Piece!! Congratulations!! And everything sounded great, until it mentioned a Live Action TV series by Hollyweird. How about no? They screw everything up. Leave One Piece alone. |
| 20 years already? damn i feel old... my teens days is cheerful because of this... congratulations oda... you diserve every prise you get... dude literaly overworked until jump forced him to take break... even not really like one piece, his passion is something i really admire... also live action? is that a joke? damn... |
 "If taking responsibility for a mistake that cannot be undone means death, it's not that hard to die. At least, not as hard as to live on." |
| Fun fact : The producer of the future live-action series said that Live-action One Piece could ''Set a new record for TV production costs'' http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-07-24/marty-adelstein-one-piece-live-action-series-could-set-new-record-for-tv-production-costs/.119233 |
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