Shonen Jump reportedly working on epic ‘One Piece’ crossover issue
Two weeks from now, One Piece will finally reach its 1,000-chapter milestone.
In celebration of this crowning achievement, manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump is allegedly working on a grand masterpiece: a special One Piece side-story crossover issue where main characters from every current Shonen Jump series are all set to appear.
The leaked info comes courtesy of @WSJ_manga (Shonen Jump News – Unofficial), an unofficial news source on Twitter. According to the tweet, this side story will run in Issue 5/6 and will include every "main character" from each title currently serialized in Shonen Jump.
There has been no confirmation yet on whether this upcoming One Piece crossover issue will be made available to readers outside Japan.
This is not the first time that One Piece intermingled with characters from other titles. The series previously crossed over with Akira Toriyama's equally-popular Dragon Ball in the "Cross Epoch" manga one-shot, as well as in Episode 590 of the One Piece anime series.
In Food Wars!, Straw Hat chef Sanji was remodeled through the lens of the culinary series' creative team composed of Yūto Tsukuda, Shun Saeki and Yuki Morisaki. One Piece characters have also been regularly featured in various Shonen Jump-based video games alongside other prominent favorites from the magazine.
One Piece, Eiichiro Oda's hugely popular manga series, was first published back in 1997. The nautical fantasy adventure revolves around the journeys of the Strawhat Pirates led Monkey D. Luffy who dreams of becoming the Pirate King one day. If comments from Oda are to be believed, One Piece still has another five years left before it finally wraps up for good.
As long as it has been around, One Piece is not the longest-running manga ever. But it does own the title of “highest-selling comic book series of all time” and "most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
