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Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, the One Piece.As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, an enchanted Devil Fruit that gave him the ability to stretch like rubber. Its only drawback? He'll never be able to swim again-a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog! Years later, Luffy sets off on his quest to find the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...The CP9, a group of anti-pirate assassins on a quest for the superweapon called Pluton, has Luffy's Straw Hat crew in its sights. In a high-stakes chase, the Straw Hats must survive an epic tidal wave and catch up to a hurtling sea train full of enemies to save their newest member, Nico Robin-along with mysterious shipbuilder Franky-from CP9 clutches. Will Luffy's stubborn soul and seat-of-the-pants style cut it against a gang of heavily armed World Government goons?!
About the author
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.
Summary
In Water Seven, a serious seafarer's city and one of
the last stops in Paradise, Luffy and his Straw Hat crew come up against
competing sets of assassins, each seeking the plans for Pluton, one of the
ancient world's most powerful weapons! Newest Straw Hats member Nico Robin may
have the blueprints, but she's been spirited away on the speeding Sea
Train...and may be on the run from the Straw Hats themselves!
For teen audiences.
