[Discussion] One Piece sold 300 Million Printed Copies

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Congratulations Oda sensei ! A new milestone.


History of milestones up to 2008:

One Piece has the highest total manga sales within Japan, and is currently Weekly Shōnen Jump's most acclaimed and all-time best-selling title. The manga is the first to increase the sales of Weekly Shōnen Jump in eleven years. As of volume 65, the series has sold over 260,000,000 copies domestically and is the fastest manga to reach sales of 100,000,000.

2008: One Piece was the best selling manga in Japan with 5,956,540 volumes sold. Volume 49 with 1,544,000 copies was in fourth place, Volume 50 with 1,678,208 copies hold the first place and Volume 51 with 1,646,978 copies was in second place.

2009: One Piece was the best selling manga series in Japan with 14,721,241 volumes sold. Volume 53 hold the first place with 2,057,528 copies sold, volumes 54, 52, and 55 place second, third and fourth respectively with 1,963,696, 1,952,551, and 1,810,410 copies sold respectively.

2010: Volume 59 holds a manga initial circulation record in Japan with 3.2 million copies. The volume set a new record for the first-week sales by selling 1,852,541 copies.

2010: The first half One Piece was the best selling manga in Japan with 15,220,095 copies sold approximately. Volume 57 was in first place and Vol. 56 in the second with 2,305,594 and 2,276,013 copies sold respectively.

2011: One Piece was the best selling manga in Japan with 37,996,373 copies sold. Volume 61 was the best selling volume in Japan with 3,382,588 copies sold.

2012: One Piece was again the top selling manga in Japan, selling an estimated 23,464,866 copies. Volume 65 sold the most, with 3,336,992 copies sold.

In response to the Oricon survey question about which manga people would want to see in live action movie, One Piece takes second place behind Slam Dunk. Another survey asked 6,000 participants the question "Which manga do you think is the most entertaining?" One Piece took first place with Dragon Ball taking second.
 

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Its because One Piece is a fantastic manga which has diverse characters with their own distinctive heritage, laugh, personality and awestruck fight scenes accompanied by epic soundtracks!! :hyper:
 

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Meh... One piece is okay...
 

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Oda is so inspiring. :cool:
 

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Congrats to Oda. He did create a fantastic manga.
 

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lol its no longer news that one piece those this well in japan.

one piece is officially the new dragon ball lol
 

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ONE PIECE = Humanity

and yeah, Zoro is the reason behind the sales.
 

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lol its no longer news that one piece those this well in japan.

one piece is officially the new dragon ball lol

sorry but DBZ hasn't been able to compete with OP for quite some time now

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Congrats to Oda, and OP fans - Naruto fan.
 
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