- That Montblanc Noland introduced pumpkins to Jaya?
- That the Going Merry had 5 cannons? (two on either side and one in front)
- That the Going Merry received a Viking Funeral?
- That Usopp's nose is the strangest nose in the world, according to Mr. 2 Bon Kurei?
- The Red Line is said to be 10,000 meters high from ocean level to either Mariejois or Fishman Island, meaning it is a total of 20,000 meters high, and is indestructible?
- The word "Möwe", which appears on Morgan's metal jaw, is German for "seagull"?
- Although the One Piece movies are non-canon, Oda draws most of the characters for each movie himself?
- Rob Lucci is the only character so far who has been able to bring Luffy to the brink of death through pure physical force, as opposed to Logia powers or life draining attacks?
- That the Marines used the Seastone linings under the ship to distract away the Sea King and cross the Calm Belt?
- That the island where Alabasta Kingdom was built is named Sandy Island?
- Blue Fan's name of the Kuja Pirates comes from a flower of the Scaevola family?
- Lucky Roo is the first person in the series to kill; he shot one of Higuma's goons who was holding a gun to Shanks' head.
- Miss Goldenweek's Rainbow Color Trap reveals that Mr. 4's dream was to become a pizza delivery boy?
- The Bezan Black is the name of the ship that the Black Cat Pirates and Captain Kuro sailed?
- That during the whole history of the judiciary island of Enies Lobby, not a single person sent there was EVER pronounced innocent?
- That Zoro was originally planned to be part of Buggy's crew?
- That Usopp's shadow while acting like Crocodile can be seen in Zoro's Wanted Poster?
- That Ryuma was the very first canon character to be introduced, even before the series had even begun?
- That Gimlet was the youngest known character to have died in the series?
- Enel was a self-proclaimed god with the power of lightning.
- The Kuja Pirates, consisting of females exclusively, seem to have many similarities with the Greek Amazons.
- The Kuja pirates' jolly roger features a skull with snakes replacing hair, which is a reference to the Greek myth of Medusa, the woman who had snakes instead of hair and who was able to petrify anyone who looked into her eyes. This is also displayed by Boa Hancock's Devil Fruit power, which allows her to turn people to stone.
- Sodom and Gomorrah, the two pets of the Franky Family, were named after the two cities mentioned in the Bible as places where people had no morals and were destroyed by God.
- The names of the the Marine admirals (Aokiji, Akainu, and Kizaru) are known to have been taken out of a Japanese folklore, Momotaro. The three animals that followed Momotaro on his quest were the dog (inu), monkey (saru) and pheasant (kiji).
- The Thriller Bark Arc may have been inspired by Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, Frankenstein, and Michael Jackson's song that has the same name: "Thriller".
- The Fishman Island Arc has several references to fairy tales, notably the Japanese legend of Urashima Taro, and the legend of the Little Mermaid. King Neptune is also named after the Roman god of the sea.
- There are three ancient weapons named after three mythical gods: Pluton, Poseidon, and Uranus.
- The Punk Hazard Arc has mythological creatures such as dragons, centaurs, satyrs, yetis, and harpies (most of these creatures are related to Greek or Roman myths).
- Special volumes were given to those who attended the theatrical releases of two One Piece Movies.
- One Piece Film: Strong World attendees received Volume 0.
- One Piece Film: Z attendees received Volume 1000.
- Chapter 0 is the first and only chapter so far to have a double tankobon release, in both Volume 0 and fifth databook, One Piece Blue Deep.
- Currently, only volume 21 and volume 42 do not have Luffy on the cover, both of which are covers that contrast the antagonists of a particular arc with the Straw Hats on the following cover. (Baroque Works on Vol. 21, Cipher Pol 9 on Vol. 42)
- Volume 33, so far, is the only volume to not be named after a chapter that it contains.
- Even though Sogeking appears on the cover of Volume 38, he is only in the last page of the comic.
- Ever since the Straw Hat Pirates entered the Grand Line, there has been a chapter named after the islands where they have an adventure called "Adventure on ____" and occasionally there are chapters named after other places in this format such as when they were in the Florian Triangle and recently when they dove into the ocean. Places where there was no adventure (such as Enies Lobby and Marineford) do not have a chapter name in this format.
- Volume 46's cover art was originally featured on an issue of Shonen Jump Magazine's cover, adjustments were made for the cover such as adding Brook.
- Each volume cover has a different header, changing in color each time. The one that breaks this cycle is Volume 50. Volume 50 changes from the standard title, then picture synopsis, to a picture (of Nami), the title (that is surrounded in flames), and is then followed up with the pictures of Zoro, Luffy, and Brook. This change was likely done to commemorate the fiftieth volume of One Piece.
- Only three story arcs (the Romance Dawn Arc, the Reverse Mountain Arc, and the Return to Sabaody Arc) have been published entirely within one volume.
- As of now, there are two versions of Volume 58. The first print is noted as an editor's mistake, cropping certain double spreads that are meant to run off the page. The second version was released a day after, fixing the problem to remain similar to the Weekly Shonen Jump version.
- Volume 61's cover mirrors Volume 1's cover in that it displays Luffy, Nami, and Zoro, with the addition of the rest of the crew and Thousand Sunny following the timeskip, as they were on the cover of volume 1. They also share similar titles.
- Volume 63 and 69 are the only volumes to contain 12 chapters.
- The actual covers for each volume are usually a sepia version of the colored dusk jacket. However there are some exceptions:
- Volumes 15, 19, 21, 28, 38, 52 have an image of Pandaman instead. The Volume 21 and 28 covers were the same as the colored covers, but Pandaman replaced Crocodile and Wiper respectively. Volume 52 had not just Pandaman, but many other Easter Egg characters that have been mentioned in the SBS.
- Starting from Volume 25, Oda has started drawing a small ongoing story on the inside back cover of his Volumes that can barely be spotted using his Easter Egg characters (with the exception of Volumes 36-38 being blank due to Pandaman being eaten by a large fish, and Volumes 63 and 64 being covered by the message of encouragement and a cover page printed across the page). Pandaman appears from Volume 25-current excluding Volumes 36-38 and 63-4, but other characters peek in from time to time as well including Unforgivable Mask (46-51), Domo-kun (53-61) who once goes offscreen on Volume 57, Nnke-Kun (54-61), and the long polar bear Easter Egg with an unknown name from 59-current (excluding Volumes 63-4).
- The back side of the inside cover of Volume 17 has a very small image of Chopper peeking out (from the wrong side, as usual) the bottom corner on the left side.
- Volume 56 instead has two drawings of Luffy in STRONG WORLD outfits, one on each side of the cover.
- Volume 62 instead has an image of the Straw Hat Pirates that had previously been drawn by Oda as a message of encouragement following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The page had messages such as "We're OK!" and "Fight!". The title of the book has been moved to the back side of the cover most likely due to space problems.
- Volume 63's inside cover also differed from the dusk jacket, showing Otohime's grave, Fisher Tiger and Shirahoshi inside Megalo, with Luffy on top. On the backside of the inside cover was another encouraging message from the Straw Hats telling readers to "Cheer up!".
- Volume 64's backside of the inside cover has the sepia version of the coulorspread cover page of Chapter 622.
- So far, there are only four unnamed characters who have been appeared on the cover of a volume. They are on the covers of Volume 25 (Sengoku's goat and the unnamed digger) and Volume 74 (Senor Pink's groupies).
Places
- The island of Water 7 is heavily based on the city of Venice, Italy. The city's situation of rising water levels, acqua alta, is also used as a source of inspiration for the arc.
- Gray Terminal is based in the Smokey Mountain, a landfill localizated in Manila (Philippines).
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