Streetwear brand The Hundreds released a new line of clothes and accessories featuring Luffy, Nami and many of the other characters from Eiichiro Oda's long-running One Piece manga and anime series.
Made in collaboration with Toei Animation, the company behind the One Piece anime, The Hundreds' new One Piece collection features shirts, hoodies, caps and accessories decorated with imagery from the perennially popular shonen series. The Hundreds is a California streetwear brand that was founded in 2003 and has collaborated with a number of other companies throughout the years, including Disney and the NBA. The clothing company previously produced clothing lines themed around comic characters such as Batman and Garfield.
One Piece was first published in 1997, and since then it has become one of the flagship franchises of the Shonen Jump brand and the best-selling manga ever, with over 480 million copies in circulation. It tells the story of Monkey D. Luffy, a young boy who dreams of becoming the King of Pirates. After accidentally eating a Gum-Gum Fruit which gives his body rubber-like properties. Luffy eventually becomes the captain of a colorful group of characters known as the Straw Hats Pirates, and together they set out to discover the truth behind One Piece, a legendary treasure coveted by all pirates.
The manga was adapted into an anime series in 1999, which continues today with over 20 seasons and almost 1,000 episodes produced. A live-action series based on the property is being produced by Tomorrow Studios, which is also producing the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation for Netflix, as well as TNT's Snowpiercer TV series.
The Hundreds' One Piece clothing line is available for purchase online via their website or app, or through select retailers in the United States and Canada. The One Piece manga is available to read online via VIZ, while the anime is available for streaming on Netflix, Hulu and Crunchyroll.
Source: The Hundreds
