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One Piece
Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic is the best-selling manga in history and a Guinness record-holder — the print-media backbone of an anime-industrial complex now spanning Bandai merch, games and a hit Netflix live-action series.
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· Riley Schatzle
Billionaire Marc Lasry, who co-owns the Milwaukee Bucks, wants all newly minted NBA millionaires to ruthlessly save their money by telling everyone who hits them up for funds that they simply don’t have any. The Moroccan-born Lasry, who made his fortune by focusing on distressed…
· Jacob Wagner
No, “The Onion” did not take over our staff for the day. Someone seriously just bought the above painting for $46.5 million this week at a Sotheby’s auction in New York. The artist behind the painting is Mark Rothko, who rose to prominence in the 60s before he committed suicide…
· Editorial Staff
Tesla’s Autopilot feature, which was released to Tesla owners earlier this month, truly is an amazing piece of technology. It relieves drivers of the need to constantly have their hands on the wheel and, as the video above shows, can possibly prevent terrible accidents and save…
· Editorial Staff
Furniture store chain IKEA recently started selling wireless chargers that can turn any piece of furniture into a wireless charging station. The charging unit retails for $30 and is made by Jyssen.
· Riley Schatzle
The son of a Swiss millionaire decided that instead of working hard to earn the money to buy a new 2015 Ferrari 458 Italia, he would, instead, burn his old one in an elaborate scheme to get away with insurance fraud. However, after some miscalculations, the son found himself and…
· Riley Schatzle
According to British independent tech reviewer MrWhosetheBoss, it only takes seven simple steps to transform a smartphone into a holographic device. You only need an X-Acto knife, a ruler, an old CD case (which is essentially useless anyway), some tape, and pen and paper. Here…
· Riley Schatzle
Brad Kroenig, named one of the top male models of all time by Vogue, managed to push his career into the stratosphere by snagging the attention of legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Kroenig, at 36, is no spring chicken in the modeling game, but because of his talents…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
When Drake took the stage at the Apple WWDC 2015 event yesterday to talk about the much-anticipated Apple Music, it was what he wore that garnered the most attention. The “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late” rapper wore an old Apple varsity jacket that immediately caused a…
· Editorial Staff
Ben Parr has had quite the career. He started his first gig as a lowly writer for rising tech blog Mashable back in 2008, but quickly rose the ranks to become editor-at-large in just three years’ time. Shortly after, he left Mashable and launched DominateFund, an early stage…
· Max Chang
Steve Jobs was known for being many great things: tech visionary, unstoppable entrepreneur and sales genius. He was also a complete asshole as a boss. He expected nothing less than the impossible from the people he worked with. He was known to be the kind of boss that would…
· Max Chang
An entrepreneur has to be a lot of things: determined, creative, sharp and innovative. But which skill is the most important for any entrepreneur? A study out of Penn State and Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland reveals that if there is one skill you should focus on, it’s…
· Alan Van
In Tarantino’s bloodbath masterpiece “Kill Bill,” the mythical Hattori Hanzo sagely tells the Bride, “Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest, and like a forest, it’s easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.” Truer words about revenge and its…
· Alan Van
Well, looks like it’s only a short matter of time before we have a full-on war between humans and cyborgs.
· Benny Luo
There are many different types of entrepreneurs- there are tech entrepreneurs, online entrepreneurs, and then there are rockstar entrepreneurs like Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam. You’ve probably come across Rap Genius at some point, whether you are looking up lyrics to…
· Riley Schatzle
Many people believe in preserving art because it tells important stories that should be passed down to younger generations for years to come. Tattoos, however, are only now being considered an art form by the general public. Charles Hamm, founder of the National Association for…
· Mahbod Moghadam
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal wrote this hit piece on Theranos, basically saying that Theranos is a hoax. The main accusations, mainly coming from former Theranos employees, it seems, are that Theranos uses a lot of other companies’ testing machines and that Theranos’s own…
· Editorial Staff
What is it like to attend an event where all the world’s “top young entrepreneurs” gather to mingle and costs over $1,000 to attend? We braved the sweltering L.A. heat to find out at the annual Kairos Summit in Hollywood this week. Tickets for the event, which were reportedly…
· Riley Schatzle
A Queens couple has been investing in Apple stock since the late 1990s and now they own over $1 million in Apple shares. Ning Wang is the editor-in-chief of Sing Tao Newspapers, a Chinese newspaper chain, and Ting Qian is a communications manager at the Institute of Electrical…
· Editorial Staff
One ingenious 25-year-old has come up with a hilarious solution to the dilemma of photos depicting happier times with your ex — and it could involve Zac Efron or Megan Fox if you want it to. L.A.-based photographer Kaitlin Kelly offers a service that will have her Photoshop…
· Editorial Staff
Wealthy people in China are buying illegal wildlife products that include the parts of endangered tigers, elephants, rhinos and bears. These items are increasingly seen as investments whose values will rise once the animals become extinct, according to activist website TakePart.…
Anime connects to Sony, Toei Animation, and Bandai Namco through streaming, studios, licensing, merch, and games.
If anime for you means Crunchyroll, soundtracks, figures, games, or theater releases, these are some of the companies sitting behind it.
Franchise · Anime
Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic is the best-selling manga in history and a Guinness record-holder — the print-media backbone of an anime-industrial complex now spanning Bandai merch, games and a hit Netflix live-action series.
IP · Gaming
One Piece games is a culture-first entry point into the listed company behind it.
Culture · franchise / licensing
One Piece connects to Toei Animation and Bandai Namco through episodes, games, licensing, events, and collector products.
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Toei Animation is tied to some of the biggest anime franchises and the global licensing machine around them.