About One Piece Wanted

01Why a site about bounties

Bounties have been part of One Piece since the start of the story. Historically, they measure what the World Government fears; at the end of Wano, Cross Guild invents its own bounty system and turns the mechanism around, putting a price on the Marines themselves. They climb as the story moves on, and at every stage they show who the story has made matter. A bounty is never just a number: it is how the world of the series judges a character.

It is also, in part, a measure of power. Not only that, since the amount follows the perceived threat more than strength, but enough for fans to compare, rank and endlessly debate who is worth what. Quite simply, it is one of the strongest concepts in One Piece.

Yet they are scattered: in a single panel, in a newspaper in the background, in one of the author's answers to his readers, on a databook entry. One Piece Wanted gathers them in one place so they can be read as a whole: compared, followed from one amount to the next, seen across an entire crew at a glance. The aim is to rediscover One Piece through its bounties.

02What the site covers

The site currently holds 338 bounties, carried by 283 characters and linked to 64 organizations. It is built around a few entry points:

• All bounties — one page per bounty, with its poster, its state and a text that places it in the story. A character who has carried several also has a page that follows their progression.
• Organizations — crews, criminal organizations, the World Government and other groups. Each page brings together the bounties its members carried while they belonged to it, with a text about the organization.
• The Straw Hat timeline — the crew's bounties, arc by arc.
• Records — the highest bounties in history, the lowest, the biggest jumps.
• Trivia — characters without a bounty, amounts never revealed, identical bounties, posters out of the ordinary, bounties shared by two.

Other pages group the Emperors, the Warlords, the Supernovas and the Worst Generation.

The site does not stop at wanted characters. Those nobody puts a price on have their own page too: "does this character have a bounty?" is a real question, and an explained "no" is an answer as well.

03Where the data comes from

The source is the series itself: the manga first, then what its author and publisher release around it, the answers to readers (SBS), the Vivre Cards and databooks, and the films and anime when they show a poster the manga does not.

To check a point, the working reference is the One Piece Wiki, where every claim points back to a chapter or to a statement by the author. A community source helps find a fact, not establish it: what counts is the reference to the series.

One rule holds everything else together: invent nothing. When the series has not revealed an amount, the poster reads "???" rather than an estimate. When it has not settled whether a bounty exists, the poster says so instead of settling it on the series' behalf.

• The bounty system — what the series establishes about bounties, and how the site renders each of these cases.

04What the page texts tell you

A poster gives the essentials: a name, a face, an amount. Every bounty page also carries a text of its own, to go beyond what the poster and the page's details can show.

The bounty comes first: why it lands at that moment, what its amount says about the character, what it changes for them. But the series often says little about a given bounty; the text then widens to the character, and in particular to what is specific to them and no other page says.

Organization pages have theirs, on what defines the organization and the weight of its bounties.

05What the site adds to the series

Representing an entire system forces a few choices the series does not make. The site owns them, and states them:

• the posters are recreations, built on a shared template with an open-source generator. They aim to stay faithful to the posters in the series, but draw on them more than they copy them, with their own editorial choices and constraints;
• a third issuer, OPW, meaning One Piece Wanted itself, signs the pages of characters nobody is hunting. Their poster strikes out everything that would imply a bounty;
• when a bounty is plausible without being confirmed, the site draws a poster the series has never published, and marks it "WANTED ?", or "REWARD ?" for a Cross Guild poster;
• Cross Guild posters show symbols; the site adds the corresponding amount.

Those of these choices that affect a particular bounty are flagged on its page, and are never presented as facts from the series.

06How the site is kept up to date

One Piece is not finished, and neither is the site. A bounty revealed by a new chapter or a new source enters it; an amount long unknown gets its value; an uncertain existence changes category the day the series settles it.

The texts evolve too. Every fact established along the way, an epithet, the date of an amount, the outcome of a fight, is recorded to serve the pages that will need it.

07Report a mistake

A bounty is missing, an amount is wrong, a text gets something wrong? Reports are welcome. Each one is checked before it is corrected, like everything else.

• Contact — the site's address.
• Disclaimer — what the site is not: neither official nor affiliated with the rights holders of One Piece.