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If you liked One Piece
Seven picks for after One Piece, from the live-action series and Hunter x Hunter to Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Wind Waker and Treasure Island.
One Piece has been running since 1999 and it still makes people cry over a ship. What keeps it going is an earnest belief in adventure and friendship: Luffy collects a crew of outcasts, each with a dream, and the world gets bigger and more connected the longer you sail.
The picks below are adventures with the same heart, whether you want something shorter while you catch up, or something to fill the weeks between new episodes.
WHAT WE MATCHED ON
Three things One Piece does well
- Crew as familyMisfits who become a family, each chasing a dream.
- A world that keeps growingLong journeys and worldbuilding where small details pay off much later.
- Pure adventureIslands, treasure, oceans and the joy of what is over the horizon.
THE PICKS
7 things to try next
Across movies, TV shows, anime, games, books. Each pick says which of the three it matches, what it does differently, and one thing to know before you start. Save any of them to a list, no account needed.
01 / TV show · 2023
One Piece
Matches: Crew as family
Netflix's live-action version of the East Blue saga, with Luffy gathering his first crewmates and taking on Arlong.
With Eiichiro Oda as an executive producer, the live-action series is a faithful retelling of the start of the story in eight episodes. It is a good way to rewatch the early arcs, or to introduce a friend who will never start a thousand-episode anime.
Some of the anime's cartoon physics looks strange in live action.
02 / Anime · 2011
Hunter x Hunter
Matches: A world that keeps growing
A boy sets out to become a Hunter and find his missing father, making a lifelong friend along the way.
Hunter x Hunter shares One Piece's sense of a huge world to explore, with each arc almost a different genre. Gon and Killua's friendship is as moving as anything on the Thousand Sunny.
It gets very dark in later arcs, and the story is unfinished.
03 / Anime · 2007
Gurren Lagann
Matches: Crew as family
Two young men break out of an underground village and fight their way to the surface and beyond, gathering an army of misfits.
Gurren Lagann has One Piece's boundless optimism and its belief that friendship can do the impossible, compressed into 27 episodes. Its scale keeps escalating until it becomes cosmic.
Loud and over the top, with some fan service that has not aged well.
04 / TV show · 2005
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Matches: A world that keeps growing
A twelve-year-old monk wakes from a hundred years frozen in ice and must master the elements to end a world war.
Avatar is one of the great quest stories in animation, with a crew who become a family, a world explored region by region, and early details that pay off in a perfect finale. It is a complete story in 61 episodes.
The first season starts as a children's show and grows more serious.
05 / Movie · 2003 · Gore Verbinski
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Matches: Pure adventure
A blacksmith teams up with an eccentric pirate captain to rescue the governor's daughter from cursed pirates.
Jack Sparrow and Luffy would get along. The first Pirates film has One Piece's mix of swashbuckling, slapstick and real stakes, and its cursed crew would fit right in on the Grand Line.
Its sequels are long and convoluted; the first stands alone.
06 / Video game · 2002
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Matches: Pure adventure
A boy sets sail across a vast ocean of islands to rescue his sister, with a talking boat as his guide.
The Wind Waker is the game that best captures One Piece's joy of sailing toward an unknown island. Its bright cartoon style, pirates and sea full of secrets make it the closest thing to exploring the Grand Line yourself.
The original has a slow treasure hunt late in the game; the 2013 HD version streamlines it.
07 / Book · 1883 · Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Matches: Pure adventure
A boy finds a treasure map and sails with a crew that turns out to include a charming, dangerous one-legged cook.
Treasure Island invented much of what we imagine pirates to be, from treasure maps to parrots. It is short, exciting and still readable, and Long John Silver is an ancestor of every likable rogue in One Piece.
Its 19th-century language takes a few pages to get used to.
Where to start
If you want a complete story with the same heart, watch Avatar: The Last Airbender. For a game, The Wind Waker. To share One Piece with a friend, start the live-action series together.
Whatever you pick, give it a fair start: the first half hour of a film, two episodes of a show, the opening chapters of a book or the first hour of a game. Then decide.
How we chose
Prepared by OmniTrackr and reviewed by the site owner before publishing. We started from what makes One Piece work for the people who love it, then looked for titles that share at least one of those qualities, deliberately across formats, because a game or a book can carry the same feeling in a different way. Facts were checked against public sources; the comparisons and caveats are editorial opinion.
These picks are not rankings, sponsored placements or anyone's private ratings. Running times, episode counts and availability vary by edition and region. Links go to OmniTrackr title pages, not shops.
First published October 16, 2026. Checked October 16, 2026. Suggest a pick or send a correction · Editorial standards · Pick for me