The author of this world famous manga with more than 500 million copies sold, admitted last month to having found himself confronted with the syndrome of the white page.

"Hello. This is the author. I can't find a plot for One Piece next week. Could you think of one? A really good one, please," the author asked. to ChatGPT, according to a video posted by his team on Twitter.

Within seconds, the program imagined a story where the heroes meet new friends and fight with new enemies.

He tried to sell this story to the author, touting a mysterious tribe, new comrades, and a new perspective on an existing character that would be appreciated by his readers.

But the author challenged him: "Sorry, this is boring," he wrote to him, asking for a better idea.

ChatGPT then imagined a new plot where an alien joins forces with the characters of "One Piece" and his hero Luffy to fight a witch and rebuild his home planet destroyed by an evil spaceship.

"Thank you, that's what I'll draw," replied Eiichiro Oda, hinting that the next episode of the saga would be based on this new plot.

Since the publication of volume 1 in 1997, the hunt for the "One Piece", treasure coveted by all pirates and in the first place Luffy, hero of the series, now has more than 100 volumes to its credit and multiplies records of sales.

Eiichiro Oda (48) has even been awarded a "Guinness World Record" in the category "largest number of copies of the same comic published by a single author".

First declined in an animated series by Toei Animation 1999, which includes more than 1,000 episodes broadcast to date, the One Piece universe has since developed on all possible and imaginable media.

ChatGPT, the successful program that generates texts using artificial intelligence, is now launching into manga thanks to an experiment by the author of "One Piece", the Japanese Eiichiro Oda © Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP/Archives

The upcoming release on Netflix, the streaming platform with more than 200 million subscribers, of a "live action" series, with actors in the flesh, adapted from the One Piece universe is supposed to help him to reach an even wider audience, according to its producers.

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