ONE PIECE

Andrea Shearon Sep 10, 2022. 2 minute read

This Giant One Piece Collection Turns Thousands of Pages Into One Book

Whether you’ve read it or not, everyone’s shared bit of One Piece knowledge is that it’s long as hell. But physically speaking, how long is One Piece if you stick all its chapters together? According to JBE Books, it’s over two feet, weighs 36 pounds, and has more than 21,000…

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Malindy Hetfeld Mar 18, 2021. 5 minute read

Real Hobbies to Complement Reading Some Extremely Long Manga

Let me make one thing very clear: despite what Gen Z says, I’m not old. I’m not. I do, however, clearly remember buying my first volume of One Piece. Somehow more than 20 years have passed since then? I gave up on One Piece when I began to doubt I would live to see its end, but I get…

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Sean Aitchison Sep 20, 2019. 6 minute read

What American Comics Can Learn From Manga

Superhero movies are huge: they shatter box office records, they sell tons of merchandise and they’ve made Disney even bigger and richer than they already were. And yet, the comics they’re based on have been in decline for years. Marvel has had trouble boosting sales, attempting to do so with…

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Sean Aitchison Jun 3, 2019. 5 minute read

Why Were Anime Dub Openings So Weird?

America has always had a strange relationship with Japanese media and pop culture. From the weirdness of DiC’s Sonic Cartoons to everything about Digimon: The Movie, it’s plain to see that licensing companies rarely trusted Japanese material in its original form. In fact, Digimon: The Movie, specifically its soundtrack, brings…

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