One Piece: Ace’s Story: Formation of the Spade Pirates (Novel) Vol. 01

One Piece: Ace’s Story: Formation of the Spade Pirates Novel Vol. 01. Adventure on the high seas continue in these stories featuring the characters of One Piece!

Get the backstory on Luffy’s brother Ace! This volume contains the origin story of Luffy’s adopted brother Ace, and tales of his thrilling quest for the legendary One Piece treasure.

Washed up on the shores of a deserted island at the edge of the East Blue Sea, two men from different backgrounds unite in their shared thirst for adventure. One of them, Portgaz D. Ace, will follow in his infamous father’s footsteps as the fearless captain of a pirate crew. The other, Masked Deuce, becomes the reluctant first member of Ace’s Spade Pirates. Survival is not enough for these seafaring buccaneers, as together they seek treasure, excitement, and a route to the New World.

Biographical Notes:

Eiichiro Oda began his manga career at the age of 17, when his one-shot cowboy manga Wanted! won second place in the coveted Tezuka manga awards. Oda went on to work as an assistant to some of the biggest manga artists in the industry, including Nobuhiro Watsuki, before winning the Hop Step Award for new artists. His pirate adventure One Piece, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1997, quickly became one of the most popular manga in Japan.

Sho Hinata is the author of One Piece Ace’s Story Novel and also, two Naruto light novels: Konoha Hiden: The Perfect Day for a Wedding (2015) Konoha Shinden: Steam Ninja Scrolls (2016).

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