Popular manga One Piece is breaking Japanese national publishing records again with the release of the 60th volume in the series on November 4th.
One Piece’s publisher Shueisha is putting out 3.4 million first-print copies of One Piece Vol. 60, the company told the Japanese media on November 1st. The last several volumes had all broke new territory in the Japanese publishing industry. One Piece Vol. 59 saw 3.2 million copies go out on its first run, and Volume 57 was the first comic to break the 3 million mark. Vol. 60 finishes a long-running plot line, telling the story of the end of the ‘war on the summit,’ and then goes on to a back story depicting main character Monkey D. Luffy’s life as a young boy.
Shueisha also boasted on November 1st that One Piece has now surpassed 200 million total printed volume copies since 1997, a company record. Four other comics where noted by the Shueisha to have toppled 100 million prints as of April of this year; they included: the world famous action series ‘Dragon Ball’ (152 million), the long-running police comedy dubbed ‘Kochikame’ (142 million), basketball comedy/drama ‘Slam Dunk’ (117 million), and ninja-themed ‘Naruto’ (100 million), Oricon Stylereported. Shueisha attributed the success of One Piece to the variety and charm of its characters,Sankei News added.
Shueisha will also be releasing ‘One Piece Green – Secret Places –’ on November 4th. Green is a compilation of One Piece information, and promises to share more than 80 One Piece secrets.
One Piece Vol. 60 will be priced at ¥420 (w/tax).One Piece Green will go on sale for ¥820 (w/tax).
Yay!!! I love One Piece!! This is the best manga I ever read..
Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece has been serialized in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump starting on August 4, 1997. The chapters have been published into tankōbon volumes by Shueisha since December 24, 1997. As of November 2010, the series spans over 600 chapters and 60 tankōbon volumes.
The One Piece series was licensed for an English language release by Viz Media publishes its English-language adaptation of the series, chapterwise in the manga anthology Shonen Jump, since the magazine's launch in November 2002, and in bound volumes since June 2003. As of March 3, 2010, 38 English-language volumes have been published. However, Viz Media released a statement in July 2009 confirming the release of five volumes per month in North America during the first half of 2010, greatly increasing that number. In the United Kingdom, the volumes were published by Gollancz Manga, starting March 2006, until Viz Media replaced it after the fourteenth volume. In Australia and New Zealand, the English volumes have been distributed by Madman Entertainment since November 10, 2008.
One Piece is the highest-selling manga in the history of Weekly Shōnen Jump in Japan and the first manga to increase the magazine's sales in eleven years. Volume 57 holds a manga publishing record in Japan, with 3 million copies published in its first printing alone. In addition of breaking the previous manga record held by One Piece volume 56, it also broke Japan's all time first print publishing record of all books, passing the previous record of 2.9 million copies, held by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Overall, the series has re-written Japanese record for first print manga publication 6 times with Volumes 24, 25, 26, 27, 56, and 57. The first week sales of 1,690,932 also breaks Japanese all time sales record for all book in it debut week and is the fastest book to reach 2 million mark in its second week for single volume book. It is also currently the highest selling manga series of all time with over 200 million copies sold. It is the fastest manga series to reach sales of 100 million.
One Piece was the best-selling manga series during 2008 in Japan with 5,956,540 volumes sold. Volumes 50, 51 and 49 placed first, second, and fourth, respectively, on Oricon's list of best selling manga volumes, with sales of 1,678,208, 1,646,978, and 1,544,000 copies sold respectively. Additionally, Oricon conducted a popularity survey with Japanese male and female readers between with ages ranging from ten to forty to determine the "Most Interesting Manga of 2008". In that survey, the four One Piecevolumes published that year, volumes 49, 50, 51, and 52, placed first with an approval rating of 45.9%. In ICv2's list of "Top 25 Manga Properties Fall 2008", One Piece made a 15th place. In 2010 One Piece had improved to 2nd in ICv2's list of "Top 25 Manga Properties--Q3 2010".
According to Anime News Network, which gathers its rankings for Oricon, One Piecemaintained its top spot in 2009 with 14,721,241 copies sold, more than second [Naruto] and third place [Bleach] combined. The four volumes released during that time frame 53, 54, 52, 55 ranked 1–4 respectively for single volume sales.
Good job, Oda san!! waiting for the latest chapter...
3 comments:
wew... one piece... i love Luffy... hehe.... Although one piece has a long,long story but it still has its charm. Luffy cs's changes each time. They become more mature. Nice info... ^^
Congratz, Oda san. this is the best manga i ever read. if you want to read manga about friendship and adventure, One Piece is the best choice.
although reading comic isn't my hobby, i think it's a good achievement of Oda-san.
Congratulation!
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