'One Piece' Has A Freaky Connection With Japan's Emergency Alert System

One Piece is one series with a widespread popularity, and has a very dedicated fan base. Which is [...]

By Nick Valdez

One Piece is one series with a widespread popularity, and has a very dedicated fan base. Which is why it's funny to hear that some fans experienced some freaky real world parallels when watching the series.

And it's even funnier when you realize most fans just kept watching One Piece even when Japan was issuing eerily similar emergency broadcasts matching up with the events of the series.

It turns out that in 2010, an emergency alert for an Earthquake was airing in Japan at the same time Whitebeard was using his earthquake Devil Fruit ability during the show's opening theme. On top of this already peculiar coincidence, a tsunami warning was broadcast during the scene where Lucci was threatening to drown the Straw Hat Pirates during the Enies Lobby arc three years prior.

These two coincidences are just too strange for anime fans to ignore, as many of their favorite series tend to involve apocalypses and other eater-shattering events. The last thing anyone wants is for an anime series' apocalypse to happen at the same time a real world one does.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has been collected into 87 volumes, with a few chapters yet to be included. It has been a critical and commercial success worldwide with many of the volumes breaking printing records in Japan. The manga has even set a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book by a single author, and is the best selling manga series worldwide with 430 million copies sold worldwide.

Eiichiro Oda also revealed some upcoming news for One Piece's future at Jump Festa 2018. Not only will the manga see Wano sooner rather than later, the next villain of the series is "one of the legends which lurks in the One Piece world. The greatest enemy ever for Straw Hats will hinder their way...Can you believe Marineford Summit War will look 'cute' compared to that?"

The new live-action One Piece series also got some new information as it was revealed that the series will portray the Straw Hats' adventures from the very beginning, and will take place in the East Blue.

One Piece is currently in the middle of the "Whole Cake Island" arc and is now streaming on Crunchyroll and FunimationNOW.

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