One Piece

One Piece is the rare franchise where the scale is the point. Eiichiro Oda's manga has run since 1997 and become one of the best-selling comics ever printed, a sprawling pirate epic about Monkey D. Luffy's rubber-bodied crew chasing a legendary treasure across an ocean of strange islands and stranger people.

What keeps it from collapsing under its own size is tonal control: Oda swings from slapstick to genuine grief, often within the same arc. The long-running anime tracks the manga faithfully, while the theatrical films mostly operate as colorful non-canon side adventures, a few of them (Strong World, Film Z, Film Red) made with Oda's direct involvement. The games range from Musou-style crowd-clearing in the Pirate Warriors line to the turn-based homage of Odyssey, and a live-action series brought the Straw Hats to a new audience. Across every format, it remains a story about found family.

The One Piece franchise spans 4 series, 24 books, 7 games, 37 films in the CrossBinge catalog.