The One Piece Body Make Competition Presented by BragMen, which was first announced in February this year, has come and gone! Dozens of bodybuilders strutted their stuff and did their best Luffy impressions, and the winners have been announced. Men 18 and up were allowed …Read more »
Otaku USA readers might recall the One Piece Fitness BragMen gym, a One Piece-themed gym that opened in Shibuya in 2023. They have themed classes like Haki Projector Combat, Pirate Pilates, Marine Yoga, and Alabasta Belly Dance. And now that the facility is celebrating its …Read more »
For almost 100 years the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been a cultural icon, and now a new otaku cultural icon will be taking part. Monkey D. Luffy, the star of One Piece, is making his debut as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon! Luffy, …Read more »
This past week the Paris Saint-Germain Football Club and the Fußball-Club Bayern München fought hard in the UEFA Champions League match, and the Paris team had a little side help from none other than Luffy. Yes, the main character of One Piece was part of …Read more »
Japanese voice actress Mayumi Tanaka has voiced quite a few characters in her life, including some big names in big franchises: Luffy in One Piece, Krillin in the Dragon Ball franchise, Ryuunosuke Fujinami in Urusei Yatsura, and more. But she has a special place in …Read more »
If you’re not caught up with One Piece, you may want to avert your eyes, because it’s not hard to imagine the showdown that’s about to happen during the upcoming anime special. The one-hour, double-episode event is set to air in Japan on October 1 …Read more »
What’s the difference between America’s Playboy magazine and its Japanese counterpart? For one, we’re pretty sure the former has never featured One Piece cosplay on its cover. This week’s edition of Weekly Playboy features just that: actress and model Fumika Baba dressed as a female, …Read more »
In November, we Americans will choose our new leaders. Turns out the Japanese have us beat to the punch. Japanese anime fans, that is, who have been asked by pollmasters Charapedia, “who are the anime leaders you’d follow to the bitter end?” Who are anime’s …Read more »
So somehow the promise of Evangelion , Attack on Titan and Resident Evil theme park rides hasn’t quite convinced you to get on that plane to Japan. Fine. Maybe you’re more of a One Piece person? In that case, we’ve got the place for you. …Read more »
45th anniversary Shonen Jump fighter J-Stars Victory Vs. hits PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in Japan tomorrow, and promotion finally reached overload. The last hurrah of hype landed in front of the Parco department store in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping district with a bang. That's no …Read more »
The J-Stars Victory Vs . fighting game is back with more footage, this time taking a few select members of its roster out for a spin. The 45th anniversary Shonen Jump fighting game is set to arrive on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita in Japan …Read more »
I never planned on reviewing every volume of One Piece , and obviously that hasn't changed, despite the fact that we also covered volume 67. Every now and then I can't help but chew the fat about Eiichiro Oda's seemingly neverending saga, mostly because it …Read more »
If this signals the end of FUNimation's "season one" of One Piece , then it's an awfully good place to arbitrarily cut things off. Fourth Voyage serves as a nice transitional collection, both wrapping up the crew's battle against Arlong and his fishmen, and powering …Read more »
While Eichiro Oda's neverending pirate adventure is enjoying a much more leisurely paced release schedule than some of its Shonen Jump brothers and sisters, the contents of the latest volume are anything but. Spanning chapters 177-186, Oda's work here is feverish, running double time in …Read more »
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