On Monday, December 5, 2016, Weekly Shonen Jump will begin their 2017 publication, and their first issue will celebrate One Piece‘s 20th anniversary! The hit manga series serialization premiered with its first chapter, “Romance Dawn” back on July 19, 1997. Since then, One Piece has sold well over 300,000,000 copies worldwide and a Guinness World Record. One Piece has proven itself an unstoppable juggernaut with the release of twelve movies, almost 850 chapters, and over 760 anime episodes.

When I was in middle school, I decided that I would draw a pirate comic in JUMP. I’ll ignore the atrocities of historic facts and just draw a bunch of jolly pirates. ‘Cause hey, it’s summer. But what I really wonder is why JUMP uses a pirate mark. Why is that? – Eiichiro Oda, July 19, 1997, Weekly Shonen Jump

To celebrate this momentous achievement, One Piece will be featured in the first issue of 2017’s Weekly Shonen Jump, which comes out Monday, December 5th. This will include a special colorspread, a cover page and perhaps other features! Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan will also feature One Piece on the spines throughout the year, much like it did in 2008. There has been no confirmation as to what will be featured on the colorspread, cover page or 2017 spines at this time, but keep a look out for details to come.

Weekly Shonen Jump will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the series Kochikame, which concluded its run earlier this year. Eiichiro Oda collaborated to celebrate the end of Kochikame in September.

One Piece Chapter 848 will also be available with the next issue of Shonen Jump, which will be available worldwide on December 5, 2016. You can check out the special features with a Weekly Shonen Jump subscription. Shonen Jump and simultaneous One Piece releases are now available in: The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, India and Singapore.

Source: Redon, Greg’s The Grand Line