ONE PIECE 1

One Piece is a great story and a good read for language learners.

Pirates, hopes, dreams, fighting are all staples of One Piece, and this first volume is where it all begins. It is a good beginning to a great series and the story itself is not something I will focus on.

For language learners One Piece can be a bit of a mixed bag. While it does contain full furigana and generally excellent layouts, the speech itself contains a fair amount of slang and this can be difficult to handle. Reading it aloud will help clarify a significant portion of the slang. I dis

Okay, I'm biased, I do love One Piece. It's story about a goofy pirate world where everyone is trying to find the "One Piece". It's got awesome fights with cool special abilities, incredible world building and you might be surprised at how amazing the character writing is (there are some truly tragic character backstories, you might even find yourself tearing up!).

If you are OK with moderate amounts of slang or have read a bunch of other shounen manga before this will be an easy read. There's