To trace back to the source, we still have to start with the term trademark. As the creator of the "One Piece" series of animations, OP's copyright owner Shueisha has successfully registered various trademarks for "ONE PIECE" as early as 2007, but unfortunately, the trademark "ONE PIECE" has not been registered.

On August 24, 2007, Suishou Interactive Company successfully applied to register the three-character trademark "One Piece". After the registration was completed, Shueisha did not realize the importance of trademark rights at all. Until 2013, Shueisha wanted to register the "One Piece" trademark, but was rejected without any surprise!

Original name: ONEPIECE (ワンピース)

"One Piece" is a juvenile comic work drawn by Japanese cartoonist Eiichiro Oda. It was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" on the 34th of 1997. . The adapted TV animation "One Piece" premiered on Fuji TV on October 20, 1999.

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Creative inspiration

Creating pirate stories has been a long-standing dream of Eiichiro Oda. When he was a child, he had always been curious about why there were no comics based on the sea. The theme is thieves, and at most he only knows about the animation "Little Heroes of the North Sea". He thought that when a boy reaches a certain age, he should want to go out to sea to hunt for treasure. Oda has wanted to read pirate comics since he was a child. At that time, he told himself that if he had to draw it himself, he would definitely draw pirate stories. Regardless of whether the work sells or not, he made this choice only after being mentally prepared. It was purely because he wanted to see it.

Oda Eiichiro drew a pirate comic for the first time when he was in the first grade of junior high school. Oda’s imagination of children’s adventures was so rich that he could not finish it in just one notebook. He realized that it was impossible to draw pirate comics in a "one issue" format, so he decided to serialize pirate comics in "Shounen Jump".

In 1997, Eiichiro Oda created the pirate comic "Romance Dawn". This one-episode short comic was the prototype of "One Piece". Later, the name was also adopted by "One Piece". One episode is used as a subtitle. Of course, although the protagonists of the two comics are both named Luffy, their personalities are completely different, and the plots are also different.

However, "Romance Dawn" could not be published in "Shounen Jump" due to the number of pages at first, so he deleted the content of "Romance Dawn" and published it in "Shounen Jump" in the form of "one issue" It was published in the magazine and supplements, because Oda had already decided to use "Romance Dawn" as the prototype of "One Piece" at that time, and he was also preparing to write another version of "Romance Dawn" in the form of "One Piece". With two One Piece comics in mind, Eiichiro Oda resigned from his position as assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki for "Rurouni Kenshin" to develop into serialization.