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The era of horrible English dub of One Piece is long over. It's freaking 2014 and believe me, today, 9 out of 10 average western anime/manga fans who have an internet connection in their houses, have at least heard of One Piece.
The difference is still big, even while comparing the results from the month of June, 2014 alone.
You can completely omit US and Europe from the Google Trends diagram and compare the results from only Asia and Africa, Naruto will still have a higher 'interest score'.
And regarding the overall western manga sales being low, the reason for that is simple: online providers of manga scans (Panda and Sream currently). I'm pretty sure, that if those scanlators stopped posting the manga scans weekly, all the millions of fans, those who wake up early in the mornings on Wednesdays just to read Naruto, would go crazy, buying all the available English volumes, hence increasing the western sales rates and the overall market share.
All in all, I don't see why this current conditions makes you (One Piece fans) mad, as we (Naruto fans) acknowledge the fact, that One Piece sells way more than Naruto. You've got the sales, we've got the popularity.
I never said you dont have the most popularity popularity atm lol, but than again so does Justin Bieber