[aisle] Is One Piece Suitable for Middle School?

[Kristi Pierce]

Common sense Media called it YA.  It has quite a bit of language in it, in
later ones some sexual situations, nudity due to bath traditional Japanese
bathing houses.  Some drinking/smoking/substances, etc.  That is all in the
original anime.  The books could be different: better or worse.  Japanese
cultural standards, especially for nudity, are different.  When anime is
made for US audiences, they often edit it a bit.  The books could be based
on the original Japanese versions or the edited US ones.  Furthermore, some
books could be based on one and some the other!  I would hesitate, but if
you have other YA manga then it would probably be on that level.  Good luck!

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 1:53 PM Erin Wengerhoff via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
>
> My middle school students are begging me to get the One Piece manga series
> for the library. Follett has it listed as an adult interest level, but my
> students are saying it's totally not inappropriate.
>
> Thoughts? Does anyone else have it in their middle school library?
>
> I could also put a YA sticker on it for 8th grade only.......
>
> Thanks for your input!
> Erin
>
>
>
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Kristi L.S. Pierce
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