Super One Piece Styling Suit And Dress Style Launches In September - October 2013

Bandai just streamed their latest promo of the Shokugan anniversary project, Super One Piece Styling, Suit and Dress Style series. One Piece Styling series is produced by Bandai usually starts with the core crew from One Piece. The height of the figures ranges from 90mm to 155mm tall and every box contains a piece of candy, in Japanese a ramune.

One Piece Voice Actor Takishita Tsuyoshi Passes Away

37-year old One Piece voice actor, Takishita Tsuyoshi passed away last March 10th as announced by talent agency Aoni Production.

Special Visual For Dragon Ball Z x One Piece x Toriko Anime Leaked

Here is the leaked special visual image of the upcoming Dream 9 Toriko, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z anime series 1-hour long TV special.  "Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Chō Collaboration Special" will air this April 7 9: 00am and will comprised in two parts.

Toriko, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z Get Crossover Anime Specia Set In Aprill

Dream 9 Toriko, One Piece, Dragon Ball Z anime series will collide in one a 1-hour long TV special.  "Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Chō Collaboration Special" will air this April 7 9: 00am and will comprised in two parts. 

One Piece Film Z Breaks Records

Yesterday December 17th, anime movie "ONE PIECE FILM Z" has broken records for most successful opening weekend for a Japanese movie over the past decade.

The 12th movie adaptation had more than 1,140,000 viewers and garnered about 1,372,050,000 Yen (or about $16,390,509 USD) since its opening day on December 16th. It has been over a decade since 2001 for a Japanese film to gross this much on its premier week.

Naruto, One Piece, Kuroko Top Selling Manga In Japan For 2012

Statistics holding company Oricon, has revealed the top 30 selling manga series for 2012. Among the 30 titles listed, Naruto, Kuroko Basketball and One Piece belong to the top 3. 

As for which volumes sold most copies, One Piece and Naruto gain the top spot.

Nikkan Sports Shinbun-sha Issues Weekly One Piece Newspaper

Started last November 24, Nikkan Sports Shinbun-sha has published a special Weekly One Piece Newspaper Special (Shukan One Piece Shimbun) and will continue to produce this for one month. The special is priced at 300 yen (or about US$3.60). 

One Piece and Dragon Ball Z Movie Ticket Illustration Seen

One Piece's creator Eiichiro Oda and Dragon Ball's creator Akira Toriyama recently drew an illustration of the joint ticket called "Super Collabo Ticket" for the upcoming films of both manga franchises. 

This will be set as an advance ticket for One Piece Film Z and Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods. There will be over 8,989 set of tickets that will be printed and will be sold at 2,600 Yen each through participating theaters from November 23.

Bandai Launches Hybrid Grade One Piece

Bandai's official Youtube channel recently streamed their promotion of the One Piece Hybrid Grade. By scanning using your Andriod IOS or iPhone applications just like you do with Cardass AR cards, these are brought to life through lights and sound on your phone. These characters on the video have been released last August at 500 Yen each. Also last month was the lunch of the Hybrid Grade Bustarts TIGER & BUNNY. Check out http://gashapon.jp/hbg for more info.

P-Bandai Online Shop Exclusive: One Piece Rob Lucci Images

Bandai official released images of the P-Bandai Online Shop Exclusive: One Piece Rob Lucci 1/8 (230mm) Scale PVC figure. Rob Lucci is one of the villains in the CP9 Saga and one of the five foremen of Galley-La Company's Dock One.

This POP One Piece "LIMITED EDITION", Rob Lucci includes two kinds of hairstyles and extra arm. Since this is a Limited Edition, Rob Lucci can be pre-ordered through Because Megatore online shop, Toei Animation and in Mekke!

Man Steals 64 One Piece Manga - Arrested

According to Yomiuri Online, a 26 year old man was arrested for stealing a complete set of One Piece manga from a book store. On December 23rd, the man visited the book store with a one meter long traveling bag and put 64 comic books into the bag in a blind spot from the cashiers. Next morning, a clerk found one of the shelves empty. The man deposed to the police that he sold the comics for 23,000 yen, which was almost equal to the original price. If you pile up the 64 comics, it will be one meter high and weigh ten kilograms.

One of the secondhand bookstore keepers said One Piece is so popular that the secondhand comics are sold out quickly. A complete set of the series in good condition are sold at a premium.