Shonen Jump almost rejected One Piece, but one person convinced them otherwise Eiichiro Oda\/Toei AnimationEiichiro Oda\u2019s One Piece has been the face of Shonen Jump for years now, so it\u2019s difficult to imagine that the manga was once rejected by the publishing giant. One Piece was first released in 1997 in Shueisha\u2019s Shonen Jump and ever since then, it\u2019s been reigning as the company\u2019s bestseller for nearly three decades now. Judging by its current popularity, it\u2019s safe to say that the manga will keep its crown for years to come. However, its journey hasn\u2019t always been smooth sailing. In a recent interview, Sheisha\u2019s well-known former editor Kazuhiko Torishima shared the story of how One Piece found its home in the Shonen Jump. The editor revealed how the magazine faced a major dip in sales after Akira Toriyama\u2019s Dragon Ball was finished. Torishima \u2013 who served as Dragon Ball\u2019s editor during the early years \u2013 later took the position of Shonen Jump\u2019s editor-in-chief. A few years later, One Piece was pitched by an editor who was on the verge of transferring. Torishima and the other decision-makers weren\u2019t sold on the idea at first, keeping the discussion going on for hours, but after seeing the editor\u2019s passion for the story, they eventually decided to publish Oda\u2019s manga. And as they say: the rest is history. One Piece not only single-handedly stopped Shonen Jump\u2019s plummeting sales, but it also became the first of many great shonen manga to come. Eventually, Yoshihiro Togashi\u2019s Hunter x Hunter and Masashi Kishimoto\u2019s Naruto were also taken up by the magazine. This story is proof of how far One Piece has come and fans are inspired to know the struggles it had to go through to reach its status. As one wrote on X, \u201cOne Piece really is the backbone.\u201d \u201cThe VALUE speaks for itself\u2026 No matter how much people hate on it \u2026 One Piece is just GOAT!!!\u201d agreed another. \u201cBelieve in Oda in terms of making a masterpiece, big-hit fiction in history,\u201d added a third. One Piece\u2019s success is now higher than ever. While the manga is finally entering the Elbaf Arc with Chapter 1126, the anime show is wowing viewers with one great episode after another. Netflix is also all ready to charm us with both The One Piece anime reboot and live-action One Piece Season 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shonen Jump almost rejected One Piece, but one person convinced them otherwise Eiichiro Oda\/Toei AnimationEiichiro Oda\u2019s One Piece has been the face of Shonen Jump for years now, so it\u2019s difficult to imagine that the manga was once rejected by the publishing giant. One Piece was first released in 1997 in Shueisha\u2019s Shonen Jump and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}