V-OP · File 00 · A visual guide to One Piece card history
Explore One Piece cards from 1999 to today, across three eras and nine distinct lines.
Era 01 / 03
1999–2009
The first Japanese releases, from vending cards to card games.
Manga 5th and 10th anniversaries, 2002 and 2007
Era 02 / 03
2010–2021
Arcade machines and phone-linked cards took collecting beyond the tabletop.
Manga 15th and 20th anniversaries, 2012 and 2017
Era 03 / 03
2022–present
The worldwide card game, with organized play and a growing collector community.
Manga 25th and 30th anniversaries, 2022 and 2027
One Piece Card Eras
V-OP · File 00
A visual guide to One Piece card history.
The first Japanese releases, from vending cards to card games.
One Piece’s first trading cards arrived in 1999, bringing Luffy and the crew to Carddass vending machines.
Four random cards for ¥100 made a collection easy to start. The early releases drew mainly on anime screenshots and concept art, while numbered sets and pre-built Grand Box decks gave collectors different ways to follow the line.
Oda’s manga cover illustrations became collector cards, with colorful anime-style artwork and clear-foil finishes.
Released alongside Hyper Battle in 2000–2001, Visual Adventure recreated manga covers and chapter-opening illustrations as anime-style artwork. The cards also followed cover-page side stories featuring Buggy’s crew, Coby, and Helmeppo, giving the series a distinct identity within early One Piece collecting.
One Piece moved into a full collectible card game in Japan in 2002, then English-language collectors in 2005.
Original illustrations, booster packs, and starter decks gave collectors a new way to explore One Piece on cards. The English release, The Quest Begins, arrived in September 2005, with organized play and tournament promos adding another collecting dimension.
Arcade machines and phone-linked cards took collecting beyond the tabletop.
A ¥100 machine dispensed a physical card, then scanned it into an on-screen battle.
Berry Match combined a card dispenser with a video game. For ¥100, players received a physical card whose barcode the machine could read for battle. Machines appeared in toy stores and amusement venues from May 2008. New cards arrived roughly every two months, followed by Berry Match W in 2009 and the IC series in 2011.
One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto and more shared a card game built around Jump’s characters.
Miracle Battle Carddass brought characters from different Jump series into a shared card game. It launched with One Piece and Dragon Ball in December 2009, then expanded to include Toriko, Hunter × Hunter, Naruto and others. One Piece releases used their own OP set numbering within the wider game.
Scan a physical card with your iPhone to summon its character into an on-screen battle.
These physical cards connected collecting to an iPhone app. Scanning a card’s AR marker brought its character onto the screen for battle. Launched in July 2011, the cards also carried barcodes for Berry Match W, linking the same collection to both phone and machine-based play.
The phone-and-card game expanded to Android, letting more players build a pirate crew.
Formation relaunched AR Carddass in June 2012 with redesigned cards and Android support alongside iPhone. Players built a pirate crew from their physical collection and used it in the phone game. Packs contained three cards and cost ¥315.
A fast card battle where a character’s allies could boost its strength.
Revealed in Saikyo Jump in 2015, Kizuna Boost was built for quick play, with a full match taking about 10 to 15 minutes. Both players placed three cards face down, then revealed them at the same time. Character relationships mattered: allies placed side by side could increase a card’s strength.
The worldwide card game, with organized play and a growing collector community.
Choose a Leader, build a 50-card deck, and join the One Piece game that began in 2022.
Bandai’s current game launched in Japan in July 2022 and in English that December. Players build a 50-card deck around a Leader, supported by a separate DON!! deck. Its first booster set, Romance Dawn (OP-01), opened a line that now includes organized play, tournament releases, and multiple language editions.
