| | |  | SHOP BY TYPE | Home » » Romance Dawn (One Piece, Vol. 1) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | A new shonen sensation in Japan, this series features Monkey D. Luffy, whose main ambition is to become a pirate. Eating the Gum-Gum Fruit gives him strange powers but also invokes the fruit's curse: anybody who consumes it can never learn to swim. Nevertheless, Monkey and his crewmate Roronoa Zoro, master of the three-sword fighting style, sail the Seven Seas of swashbuckling adventure in search of the elusive treasure "One Piece." | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781569319017
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Eiichiro Oda | | Paperback:
| 216 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| 2003-06 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1569319014 | | Package Length:
| 7.48 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.96 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.87 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.44 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 40 reviews |
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This is my bible!Jul 10, 2009
I definitely recommend this book not only for young but also for adult. What's your dream? What was your dream when you were children? You can start or re-start what you want to or wanted to do whenever you wanna start it. Don't hesitate it if your parents, friends, bosses try not to lets you go! THIS is a message from this book, not book, bible.
King Of The Pirates!May 11, 2009
One Piece is a long-running shonen manga written and illustrated by Eiichira Oda, that has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since 1997, making it one of the longest running and most established features in the magazine. It appears in the monthly English version of Shonen Jump magazine as well. One Piece has been tremendously popular in Japan, and it has gained a cult following here in the States.
Volume 1 of the serialized manga is a must have for fans, as it tells the backstory of the main character in One Piece, the rubber-limbed and ever-excitable Monkey D. Luffy. As a young boy, Luffy is befriended by Red-Hair Shanks, a pirate captain of uncommon bravery and ethics. Luffy accidentally eats the legendary fruit of the Gum-Gum Tree, giving him the power to turn his body to rubber at will, but cursing him as well, since those who eat one of so-called Devil Fruits are doomed to never swim in the seas again lest they lose their powers and drown. Shanks saves Luffy's life, giving him his trademark straw hat as a remembrance. Luffy then dedicates his life to adventure, vowing to become the King Of The Pirates by sailing to the Grand Line and recovering the fabled treasure of the famous pirate king Gold Roger. This treasure is known as....One Piece.
Volume 1 also introduces two of the other main characters in the manga, swordsman Roronoa Zolo and thief/navigator Nami.
One Piece is violent and sometimes profane, but the action never wanes as Luffy's story careens from one improbable situation to another. The art is wild and outlandish, the plot is full of good humor and endless adventure, and the tale just seems to propel itself along. It's outstanding fun and I can't recommend it enough to folks who love comic action. Luffy is truly a pirate with a heart of gold, who always goes out of his way to do the right thing.
Romance Dawn indeed. This is a great place to start for anyone who wants to really get into the series.
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They Call Him "Straw Hat Luffy".Feb 15, 2009
This amazing series starts out with a little boy named Monkey D. Luffy, who's village becomes a port to pirates. The pirate captain Shanks becomes Luffy's mentor and hero, and when Luffy eats a devil fruit (fruits that gives people extraordinary powers) he finds out that it didn't taste very good! Then in an attempt to defend their honor from bandits he's kidnapped by the leader and thrown from a boat, only to have Shanks save him from a sea monster. From that day on Luffy vowed he would become KING OF THE PIRATES! But don't pirates have crews? So Luffy decides, no matter what, that the legendary pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro was to become his first mate! And the last thing I want to do is give away the entire story, (hopefully I didn't already give away tooo much) so I suggest that you read a bit more about One Piece, if you've watched the "edited" anime (the one shown on 4Kids), you should be warned that there's alot of cursing,
NOT for kids, and buy this GREAT manga!
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 Ugly art, with an original storylineJul 16, 2008
The art style is ugly and (usually) unrealistic, but at least it's unique. This is a very original manga; the author obviously has a great gift for storytelling. It's worth the buy.
King of the Pirates!Jun 24, 2008
Monkey D. Luffy wants to be King of the Pirates. He has always had this dream, from when he was a kid, and now he is off on a small boat armed with a large heart and a rubber body. Yes, a rubber boy. You see, he ate the fruit of the gum-gum tree which turned him into a boy of rubber. And now he must go forth, fighting pirates and the law, to find the One Piece, the greatest treasure in the world. The problem is nobody knows where it it and he has no training in navigation.
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