Bandai's headquarters in Komagata, Taitō, Tokyo. The game comes from Bandai's card division, whose designers the sources do not name. Photo Aimaimyi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Eiichiro Oda's art is not freely licensed.
The One Piece Card Game
What it took directly
- statedOne Piece Card Game took from the 25th anniversary of One Piece's serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump, which it was made to mark"バンダイ カード事業部は、週刊少年ジャンプで大人気連載中の漫画『ONE PIECE』の連載25周年を記念し" Bandai Card Division press release (June 2022, reprinted by gamebiz; Japanese)
- statedOne Piece Card Game's art took from Eiichiro Oda's own illustrations from the manga"I heard they're gonna use illustrations from the original work and release it worldwide." Eiichiro Oda, announcement comment (March 2022, reported by Anime News Network). Bandai's press release says the same, made with Oda's cooperation
- documentedThe game's DON!! cards took from "Don!!", the sound effect the manga uses for action and excitement"These are called ‘Don!!’ cards, named after the onomatopoeia used frequently in the original manga to indicate action or excitement." Adam Arter, Dicebreaker (November 2022)
- documentedRomance Dawn (the game's first booster set) took from the title of the manga's first chapter and of Oda's early one-shot stories"The first booster pack series will be named "Romance Dawn," which is the title of the first chapter of the One Piece manga, as well as the name of Oda's one-shots" Alex Mateo, Anime News Network (March 2022)
- documentedOne Piece Card Game's special cards took from guest illustrators Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy) and Kentarō Yabuki (To Love-Ru)"The card game announced in August it partnered with renowned Final Fantasy series illustrator Yoshitaka Amano for special illustration cards" Ken Iikura-Gross, Anime News Network (October 2026)
What it learned to do
- inferredOne Piece Card Game learned from the Dragon Ball Super Card Game, and then Hearthstone"it mostly resembles the Dragon Ball Super Card Game, followed by Hearthstone." inferred — IGN's Mike Mamon (August 2022) says the game resembles these; a resemblance a critic sees, not a source the designers name
- inferredOne Piece Card Game's life cards and triggers learned from the Digimon Card Game's security system"This works a lot like the recent Digimon Card Game’s security system" inferred — Dicebreaker's Adam Arter (2022) says it works a lot like Digimon's security system; a critic's comparison, not the designers' account
The tradition it sits in
- inferredOne Piece Card Game comes from Bandai's run of One Piece card games, back to the One Piece Collectible Card Game Bandai America sold in 2005"Bandai America is offering retailers a 10% discount on Starters and Booster Displays for the One Piece Collectible Card Game during the month of November." inferred — ICv2 records the 2005 game; Siliconera reports the 2022 game is a different game from earlier One Piece card games such as Kizuna Boost, so this is a line of products, not a rules ancestry
Where the whole form comes from
- documentedOne Piece Card Game comes from Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since July 1997"Oda began serializing the One Piece manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump manga on July 19, 1997." Anime News Network (2022)
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