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The Straw Hat Pirates have dropped anchor in Los Angeles.

Last month we got word that America would be getting its first-ever One Piece specialty store, and that the wait for it to open wouldn’t be very long. And while it was exciting for fans to look at the concept art for the One Piece Mugiwara Store Los Angeles, now that the shop is actually open we can see what the real thing looks like!

November 6 was the grand opening date for the store, which is located at the Westfield Century City shopping center in Los Angeles. Representatives from One Piece animation rights holder Toei and Sony were on hand, as was Japanese professional soccer player Maya Yoshida, who has been playing for Major League Soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy since 2023.

The real star power here though, of course, comes from the characters of the series, and there’s a three-meter (9.8-foot) tall statue of Luffy in his Gear 5 guise standing at the center of the shop, plus plenty of wanted posters of the Straw Hat Pirates posted inside, as shown by Yoshida here.

Chopper also gets a special “waverider Chopper” design just for the L.A. shop, showing him surfing the waters presumably just off the California coast.

Fittingly for fashion-conscious L.A., there are a lot of exclusive apparel items on offer…

…but this being a proper otaku-oriented retailer means that the shelves are also amply stocked with things such as figures and collected manga volumes too.

Coolest of all, the One Piece Mugiwara Store Los Angeles isn’t a limited-time, pop-up event, but a permanent place for fans to gather, just like the L.A. area’s recently opened Studio Ghibli specialty shop.

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Source, images: PR Times
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