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A Grand Scroll Unfolds: Every Page of ONE PIECE on Display
The exhibition begins with the overwhelming presence of “The Wall.” This massive display features every page from ONE PIECE volumes 1 to 109, meticulously arranged across the wall. Starting from the entrance and curving dramatically through the space, it stretches approximately 3.6 meters high and 140 meters long, leading all the way to the merchandise section—an uninterrupted scroll of art.
If you look closely, you’ll notice that this “The Wall” is made up of actual pages from the commercial manga, carefully taken apart and pasted one by one. Instead of simply printing the archive data from Shueisha’s collection, eight staff members spent about a month putting it all together. According to Masashi Okamoto, the curator of the exhibition and producer of “Shueisha Manga Art Heritage,” “I thought it would be more interesting to have the same physical pages that you all own.” Indeed, the familiar texture of the paper and the smell of the ink strongly personalize the experience of this exhibition. For those who own the entire set of ONE PIECE, this is like having your own universe at home.
