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‘One Piece’ Who is the most popular character in the world!? ‘Global Popularity Contest’ and other projects have begun, commemorating the publication of the 1000th chapter

“One Piece”, a comic written by Oda Eiichiro, has reached the publication of the 1000th chapter on ‘Weekly Shonen Jump’ 5th and 6th combined issue that was released on January 5, 2021. To commemorate that, various projects called ‘ONE PIECE 1000 LOGS’ have begun.

‘The 1st Global ONE PIECE Character World Popularity Contest WT100 (World Top 100)’ is one of the main projects of ‘ONE PIECE 1000 LOGS’ campaign to choose TOP 100 out of more than 1000 characters by votes from the readers all over the world.
It is designed to choose each reader’s “Ichiban” and see different values and diversity by comparing TOP100 worldwide.
On the special website where the voting is done, various projects and contents will be updated to connect the world through “One Piece” by its motto, ‘WE ARE ONE.’

As a statement to the world, illustrations filled with a sense of history featuring the doors from the 1000 stories and advertisements to call for a vote on ‘WT100’ are posted on ‘The New York Times’ on January 4, 2021.
‘WT100 Celebration PV’ and ‘ONE PIECE 1000 LOGS Teaser Movie’ have been released.

On ‘Weekly Shonen Jump’ 3rd/4th and 5th/6th combined issues, ‘Serialization Artist Original!! My Favorite ONE PIECE Characters Gathering Cover Connectable To The Next Issue (provisional translation)’ is inserted. “One Piece” characters drawn by the artists whose works have been serialized on ‘Jump’ are featured there, including Don Krieg by Horikoshi Kohei of “My Hero Academia”, Ace by Boichi of “Dr.STONE”, Arlong by Akutami Gege of “Jujutsu Kaisen”, and others. Also, the posters will be included in two issues in a row, which become the biggest one of all the ‘Jump’ gifts by connecting each other.

Also the collaboration projects with girls’ comic by Shueisha ‘Ribon’ and ‘Bessatsu Margaret’, a fashion magazine ‘MORE’, and a sports web media ‘Sportiva’ is being proceeded, and 1-71st volumes of “One Piece” are available for free for a limited time on online magazine app ‘Shonen Jump+’ and e-book store ‘Zebrack’.

Please check out the special website for the details.

(C)Oda Eiichiro / Shueisha

CHiRO★

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