One Piece, Vol. 12

Luffy and his crew are in Loguetown, the last stop before they sail into the Grand Line. This volume closes out the Loguetown arc.

Luffy has just escaped execution, which was planned by two old rivals, Lady Alvida and Buggy the Clown. Getting away does not end his trouble. The Navy is now on his trail, and it is led by Captain Smoker, who has never let a pirate slip out of his jurisdiction.

This is the twelfth volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, so it picks up an adventure already under way rather than starting a new one. The series as a whole is a shonen manga in the action-adventure and fantasy vein, with comic touches and a teen readership in mind. It has run in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1997.

The VIZ Media edition appeared on October 3, 2006 under the Shonen Jump imprint, rated Teen, and runs 200 pages. Readers who want to see how the crew gets clear of Loguetown and reaches the Grand Line will find that here.