This article deals with One Piece Manga Cover Pages, that is to say the first page introducing every chapter. Only two of the early chapters do not have a specific cover page: Chapter 4 and Chapter 6.
Types of Cover Pages
Since the beginning of the manga's serialization, several types of cover pages can be found.
- Straw Hats and Animals
- Color Spread
- Cover Story
- Where are they now series
Straw Hats and Animals
This type of cover page was the first to be introduced. They depict one or several Straw Hats member in a fantasy scene. For most of them they show the crew member along with animals since Oda claims he likes drawing them.[1]
In the beginning this type of cover could show several members and appeared randomly like the color panels, but since Chapter 120, a pattern became apparent:
- This type of cover only appears as a transition between 2 cover stories.
- There is only one Straw Hat per cover.
- There is always one animal.
- Each Straw Hat has only one cover per series and all of them have had one (i.e. the series contains as many members as the crew contains at the time of the series).
- The fan-requested covers of chapters 669-673 are an exception to this.
Notes:
- The series usually starts with Luffy, there is only one exception which is Chapter 263 where it is Nami.
- Starting from Chapter 125, Vivi and Carue are included in the series.
Color Spread
The color spreads are special double pages that are colorized for Shonen Jump releases, but when printed in the collected volumes (tankōbon) they are as black and white as the rest of the pages, although they can be seen again in color once they are reprinted in the Color Walks.
- They do not have special frequency and is the only kind of cover that can appear in the middle of the other series types.
- The One Piece logo is generally modified so as to follow the theme of the cover.
Note:
- Several color spreads have appeared in some animated variation, such as in Openings for the anime and other One Piece media (see List of Color Spreads).
Cover Stories
- Further information: Story Arcs#Chapter Title Page "Mini-Arcs"
These covers are chapters within chapters. They depict the adventures of a character (generally an enemy) after the Straw Hats have encountered him or her. Each cover corresponds to one volume of the Cover story (around ~40 per story) and has a dedicated title.
Where They Are Now
Where They Are Now started to appear in Chapter 424 (i.e. Just after Vivi is reintroduced in the Straw Hat and Animals series). They are similar to the Cover Stories in that they have a specific title and a dedicated numeration, but instead of focusing on one character, one cover corresponds to someone different (generally a friend).
- Where They Are Now series occur between Straw Hats and Animals and Cover Stories.
Covers and Chapters
Cover Series
| Name | Chapter start | Chapter end |
|---|---|---|
| Straw Hats and Animals | 1 | 34 |
| Buggy's Crew: After the Battle! | 35 | 75 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 76 | 81 |
| Diary of Coby-Meppo | 82 | 119 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 120 | 125 |
| Jango's Dance Paradise | 126 | 172 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 173 | 181 |
| Hatchan's Sea-Floor Stroll | 182 | 228 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 229 | 235 |
| Wapol's Omnivorous Hurrah | 236 | 262 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 263 | 271 |
| Ace's Great Blackbeard Search | 272 | 305 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 306 | 313 |
| Gedatsu's Accidental Blue-Sea Life | 314 | 348 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 349 | 358 |
| Miss Goldenweek's "Operation: Meet Baroque Works" | 359 | 413 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 414 | 423 |
| Where They Are Now (Skypiea) | 424 | 427 |
| Enel's Great Space Operations | 428 | 474 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 475 | 485 |
| Where They Are Now (Water 7) | 486 | 490 |
| CP9's Independent Report | 491 | 528 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 529 | 542 |
| Straw Hat's Separation Serial | 543 | 560 |
| Straw Hats and Animals | 561 | 579 |
| Non Straw Hat Characters and Animals | 580 | 597 |
| Fan Requests | 599 | 611 |
| From the Decks of the World | 613 | 668 |
| Fan Requests | 669 | 673 |
| Caribou's Kehihihihi in the New World | 674 | 731 |
| Fan Requests | 732 | 750 |
| Solo Journey of Jinbe, Knight of the Sea | 751 | – |
Besides the color spreads (which are random), the other type of covers are now displayed according to the following logic alternatively:
One Cover Story -> One Straw Hats and Animals series (Luffy, other crew members, Vivi, Carue)-> One Where They Are Now series.
Exceptions:
- There wasn't a Where are they now series? before the Straw Hat Separation Serial cover stories, but they can be considered as a mix of both types.
- The 3 first cover stories contain covers which are a mix of Cover Spread and Straw Hat and animals. They are on one single page with the One Piece logo and, since they appear in the Colorwalks, they were initially in color.
- Since this type of cover does not appear anymore, they are not considered a type. Here is the list of the chapters with such covers:
List of Color Spreads
A listing of Color Spread chapters. All color panels and spreads can be seen here.
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| Chapter | Description | Color walk | Used In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nami, Luffy, and Shanks' crew rejoicing with treasures. | 1 | ||
| Straw Hats and their weapons. | 1 | ||
| Straw Hats on a cart. | 1 | ||
| Straw Hats and Baratie Arc characters. | 1 | ||
| Straw Hats taking a break from farming, with giant squids in the background | 1 | ||
| Straw Hats samurai I. | 1 | ||
| Straw Hats western fashion and black panthers. | 1 | Movie 1 Ending | |
| Straw Hats and a giant treasure. | 2 | ||
| Funky Straw Hats. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats exploring some ruins. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats with Brogy and Dorry. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats and pterodactyls. | 2 | ||
| Nami, Sanji and Luffy and a snow monster. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats in a jungle. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats running on a beach. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats relaxing in a garden. | 2 | ||
| Straw Hats in the desert. | 2 | ||
| Baroque Works and Luffy. | 2 | ||
| Luffy and Nami in animal skins, with a jaguar on the background. | 2 | ||
| Luffy, Zoro, and Usopp surrounded by machines and a hippo. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats relaxing in a jungle pool. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats posing for a fight (except Nami). | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats with pigs on parachutes and seagulls. | 3 | ||
| Usopp explaining, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji dozing off. | 3 | ||
| Nami, Robin, and Chopper in a bar after shopping. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats atop a cliff. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats in a swamp. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats running away from the battleground. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats at a pier with treasure. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats relaxing in a Japanese garden. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats having a bicycle and a horse carriage race. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats resting, having a picnic. | 3 | ||
| Straw Hats eating ramen. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats getting ready to play basketball. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats performing in an orchestra at sea with rainbow colored sea kings. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats Samurai II. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats doing laundry. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats riding on a Going Merry sky train. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats playing with a beach ball on a large snake's body. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats on roosters, Zoro on a chick. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats venture to Water 7. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats at sea with a large hippo in the background. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats' mosaic panel pictures with thick borders. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats Samurai III | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats and CP9. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats' summer time. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats flying with group of eagles. | 4 | ||
| Luffy, Zoro and Chopper playing as medieval knights. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats in a snow country. | 4 | ||
| Straw Hats in a jungle ruins. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats in a prehistoric jungle while being chased by a mammoth. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats Chopper Man theme. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats eating hotdogs. | 5 | ||
| Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji posing as the three musketeers with a big gorilla in the background. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats in a boat race. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats relaxing atop of clouds. | 5 | ||
| Luffy, Robin, and Chopper in the jungle. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats walking down stairs. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hat boys as vikings. | 5 | ||
| Luffy, Nami, and Zoro in gothic clothing with a red dragon. | 5 | ||
| Luffy and Franky in a boxing match. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats in a western town with a large iguana. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats posing as mafioso (Tenth Anniversary color spread). | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats in an underwater world. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats on a caterpillar-like boat. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats at the top of a tree trunk with school of goldfish. | 5 | ||
| Straw Hats partying in a mushroom world. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats' Declaration of War. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats during their corresponding introductions. | 6 | Episode 516 | |
| Straw Hats playing cards in an abundant jungle. | 6 | ||
| Luffy, Nami, and Zoro in a Japanese painting. | 6 | ||
| Shichibukai. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats eating on a flying elephant. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats in a forest, Robin reading a large storybook. | 6 | ||
| Impel Down escape team. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats in swim suits eating ice cream. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats drinking cola. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats as fruit masked heroes. (First two color spreads in a row.) | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats lying on a dragon with a flock of parrots. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats playing iron soccer. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats at a tea party. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats with "tattoos" drawn with markers. | 6 | ||
| Straw Hats two years later. | |||
| Straw Hats with The Musicians of Bremen. | |||
| The Straw Hats see the glow worm. | |||
| The Straw Hats are running away from a group of sharks. | |||
| The Straw Hats enjoying a life among a town of animals. | |||
| The Straw Hats building a structure made of legos according to Franky's design. | |||
| Panels focusing on each invidual crew member. | |||
| The Straw Hats swimming through Fishman Island. | |||
| The Straw Hats go to the beach on Fishman Island. | |||
| The Straw Hats and their animal counterparts holding each of their items. | |||
| The Straw Hats enjoy resting on a flowerbed placed on the branches of giant a tree and are surrounded by small orange elephants. | |||
| Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Usopp, Chopper, Franky and Brook are riding the Mini Merry II whilst wearing mafia clothing and firing their weapons in a paddle-by shooting. | |||
| The Straw Hats are inside giant tea cups as they fly over a city, enjoying food and drink as Chopper rides a lion in front of them. | |||
| The Straw Hats in a Halloween setting, surrounded by pumpkins and ghosts. | |||
| The Straw Hat Pirates in their Film Z outfits, Z, and images of many Marines as they appeared in the past standing behind them. | |||
| The Straw Hats build a clock. The caption reads "Le temps qui passe, nous indiffère" (French: The passage of time is unnoticeable). | |||
| The Straw Hat Pirates, Trafalgar Law, Bepo, Shachi, Penguin, Kin'emon, Momonosuke, and the Franky Shogun stand in a group. Behind them are images of Basil Hawkins, Marshall D. Teach, Killer, Shanks, Eustass Kid, Charlotte Linlin, Scratchmen Apoo, Kuzan, Donquixote Doflamingo, Sakazuki, Jinbe, and one unknown person on the top left corner. | Episode 616 | ||
| The Straw Hat Pirates in medieval attire along with a green dragon. Luffy is portrayed as a king, Nami as a princess, and the other Straw Hats are knights. | |||
| Luffy, Usopp, Zoro, Nami, Brook and Chopper are shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by sharks and an octopus in the background. | |||
| The Straw Hats and a giant penguin swing on swings. | |||
| The Straw Hats are dressed up as kung fu characters. | |||
| Trafalgar Law, Kin'emon, Momonosuke, and the Straw Hats with a Chopper mecha whose hat is a miniature poolside bar. | |||
| The Straw Hats relax at the Mermaid Café, with Jinbe, Pappug and the mermaids. | |||
| The Straw Hats pose with their younger selves. | |||
| The Straw Hats play in the snow with some foxes. | |||
| The Straw Hats in military gear. | |||
| The Straw Hats doing laundry on the Sunny with some monkeys. | |||
| Luffy, Zoro, and Law with their allies from the Corrida Colosseum. | |||
| The Straw Hats getting ready to go out, to celebrate the series' 17th Anniversary. | |||
| The Straw Hats catch fish with some bears at the top of a waterfall for Sanji to cook. |
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