One Piece Manga Box Set 1 English w/One Piece Color Walk Compendium 1(Hardcover). A premium box set of the first two story arcs of One Piece , one of the most beloved and bestselling manga series of all time! A premium box set of the first two story arcs of One Piece, one of the most beloved and bestselling manga series of all time! As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates.
This box set includes volumes 1-23, which comprise the first two story arcs, East Blue and Baroque Works. One Piece Color Walk Compendium 1(Hardcover). Gorgeous color art from Eiichiro Oda's One Piece! The first three Color Walk art books collected into one beautiful compendium. Color images and special illustrations from the world's most popular manga, One Piece! This compendium features over 300 pages of beautiful color art as well as interviews between the creator and other famous manga artists, including Taiyo Matsumoto, the creator of Tekkonkinkreet.
This first volume covers the early parts of the series-from the East Blue arc where the main characters of the Straw Hat pirates first meet, to the Skypiea arc where Luffy and friends face their greatest adventures yet! Eiichiro Oda began his manga career at the age of 17, when his one-shot cowboy manga Wanted! Won second place in the coveted Tezuka manga awards. 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.
His pirate adventure One Piece, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1997, quickly became one of the most popular manga in Japan.