Lotte Ghana Chocolate Teams With ONE PIECE for Limited Mother's Day Gift Sets

Lotte Ghana Chocolate's second annual ONE PIECE Mother's Day gift sets launched with three newly commissioned illustrations, building on a debut that sold out at 1,200 sets priced at ¥3,480 JPY in spring 2025.

The 2026 campaign centers on character pairings drawn from ONE PIECE's most emotionally charged parent-child storylines. Nico Robin and Nico Olvia represent a bond preserved across impossible distance. Tony Tony Chopper and Dr. Kureha capture the young reindeer's shy gratitude set against his mentor's pride in his continued growth. The third pairing shows the young cook Sanji cradled in his mother Sora's arms. Each illustration was newly drawn for the occasion, following the 2025 precedent of six original images covering familial bonds including Bonnie and Kuma, and Nami, Nojiko, and their mother Belle-mère.

The collaboration brings together two properties with serious commercial scale. Ghana Chocolate, which Lotte launched in 1964 by adapting Swiss-style milk chocolate for the Japanese palate, has held Japan's top chocolate market share since 2017, the year annual sales first exceeded ¥1.2 billion JPY. ONE PIECE, the manga created by Eiichiro Oda and serialized since 1997, has surpassed 600 million copies in worldwide circulation as of Volume 114, released March 4, 2025, with more than 450 million of those copies in Japan alone. The series holds the Guinness World Record for most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author, first certified in 2015 and renewed in 2022.

The 2025 debut established the scarcity model that gives these sets their collectible premium. The Ghana Chocolate Selection Gift Box No. 26, sold exclusively on Lotte's online shop with a Mother's Day original illustrated sleeve, sold out at its 1,200-set cap. Retail availability ran parallel through a campaign at Lawson and 7-Eleven convenience stores nationwide from April 29 to May 12, 2025, where qualifying chocolate purchases came with exclusive ONE PIECE × Ghana clear files. Ghana Chocolate's X account ran a concurrent giveaway, selecting 100 winners by lottery from followers who reposted the campaign post.

A Father's Day phase of the 2026 campaign is set to launch in late April with additional exclusive character visuals, extending the collaboration through June. The franchise's recent licensing history, which includes partnerships with Baskin Robbins, the LA Lakers, the Boston Red Sox, and JR West's Shinkansen trains, confirms that ONE PIECE is being positioned well beyond traditional anime merchandise. A limited chocolate gift set built around Sora's love for Sanji or Olvia's sacrifice for Robin is, in that context, precisely the kind of emotionally calibrated product that separates a genuine collaboration from a logo placement.