Anime[edit]
The first opening of the One Piece anime TV series, "We Are!", won the Animation Kobe Theme Song Award of the year 2000.[127] In February 2001, One Piece placed 9th among anime TV series in Japan.[128] In 2001, the readers of Animage, a popular Japanese anime magazine, voted the anime TV series in 5th place of "The Readers' Picks for the Anime that should be remembered in the 21st Century".[129] In June 2002, the Animage readers voted One Piece to be the 16th best new anime of the year 2001,[130] and gave it another 16th place in 2004 in the category "Favorite Anime Series".[131] In a 2005 web poll by Japanese television network TV Asahi One Piece was voted 6th "most popular animated TV series".[132] Before the poll, Asahi TV broadcast another list based on a nation-wide survey in which One Piece placed 4th among teenagers.[133] In 2006, it was elected 32nd of the Top 100 Japanese anime by TV Asahi and 21st by its viewers.[134][135] Funimation's first DVD release of the series "One Piece: Season 1 First Voyage" was nominated for the Fifth Annual TV DVD Awards.[136]
Events[edit]

One Piece is the first ever manga series to hold a "Dome Tour," in which events were held in famous dome venues of Osaka and Tokyo in spring 2011.
Events were held from March 25 to 27 at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, and from April 27 to May 1 at Tokyo Dome.[3]