Gol D. Roger was known as the "Pirate King" and was set for execution by the World Government. However, before he died, he revealed the existence of One Piece, a treasure located in the vast ocean called the Grand Line. He declared that anyone capable of reaching it could claim it, leading to the beginning of the Great Age of Pirates. Twenty-two years later, Monkey D. Luffy embarked on his own adventure, searching for One Piece and aiming to become the new Pirate King. Armed with a straw hat, small boat, and an elastic body, he set out to gather crew members and a ship suitable for crossing the Grand Line in pursuit of the greatest treasure on the high seas.
One Piece is the highest selling manga series of all time, with over 430 million copies in circulation as of 2017. Volume 67 of the series currently holds the record for highest first print run of any manga (including books) of all time in Japan, with 4.05 million in 2012. The series was a finalist for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize three times in a row from 2000 to 2002. In 2012, it won the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize, alongside Kimuchi Yokoyamas Neko Darake.VIZ Media has published One Piece in English under the Shonen Jump imprint since January 2, 2003 and in 3-in-1 omnibus editions since December 1, 2009. VIZ Media released three boxed sets for the manga; the first including the first 23 volumes released on November 5, 2013, the second including volumes 24-46 released on November 4, 2014, and the third including volumes 47-70 released on October 4, 2016. The series has also been published in numerous amounts of languages worldwide including; Korean, Malay, Indonesian, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, and Russian.