In 1999, Toei Animation released the anime series (based on the1997 manga series by Eiichiro Oda of course) about a funny pirate crew 💀 looking for the "One Piece" treasure! In 2023, Netflix released a funny live action series based on the anime, and in March 2026 (now), they released season 2! :o)
Now, the anime series is still going strong too (there are more than 1,155 episodes already in 2026, wow! 😲) and although the Netflix series probably won't last thát long, it is said there are some new fun characters to be introduced this season of course! 😉
I *loved* the anime series, so in 2004, as my seventh papercraft I made my own papercraft (hand drawn back then because I didn't know any better) of their "Going Merry" ship (because I sucked (and I still do 😉) at making my own characters form scratch to make into papercraft and there just wasn't a game of One Piece back then.... 😊).
It was a lot of fun for me to see that lots of people liked and built it themselves over the years (and took the time and effort to show me how much fun they had: https://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2011/12/papercraft-going-merries-tribute.html)
If you like the Netflix One Piece series and want to build your own "Going Merry" too? You still can of course! 😉
(spoiler alert: The Going Merry gets broken at one point, but it's replaced by the "Thousand Sunny", and you can build that one too as an official one by Toei Animation or one by Paper-Replika.com who also made a bigger Going Merry in 2011: link).
my own free papercraft "Going Merry" from 2004:
download mirror of a repaint of my Going Merry + Mini Merry by chiohunpp (?):
official "Thousand Sunny" by Toei Animation:
(unfortunately not all the download work anymore through the Wayback Machine, but if you search a bit online, you can still probably easily find it somewhere I think - but if you really can't, you can try Paper-Replika's version (who also made a bigger "Going Merry" in 2011) through my blog here: https://ninjatoes.blogspot.com/2013/01/papercraft-one-piece-thousand-sunny_11.html)
And of course you can search online and on my blog here for lots of other papercraft One Piece characters and other Going Merry en Thousand Sunny ships!
Have fun building! (and watching the series of course 😉)
