It is extensively recognized that One Piece is one of the best promoting manga of all time, however a brand new gross sales determine drives dwelling simply how profitable Eiichiro Oda’s epic is.
Each single certainly one of One Piece‘s 100 volumes have now offered over 1 million copies every.
This staggering gross sales achievement was revealed by Japanese gross sales tracker Oricon on Sept. 10. The one hundredth collected quantity of Eiichiro Oda’s shonen manga was launched in Japan on Sept. 3 and has already offered over 1.1 million copies, which now signifies that every particular person quantity of One Piece has now cleared the 1-million gross sales mark. One Piece is the sequence with essentially the most volumes to surpass the 1 million milestone, adopted by Attack on Titan in a distant second with 34 volumes, and Naruto in third with 31 volumes. Whereas each quantity has cleared the 1 million mark, the vast majority of volumes from the primary ten years of the sequence’ run have additionally managed to promote greater than 3 million copies every.
The brand new gross sales achievement and the discharge of the manga’s one hundredth quantity are the newest main milestones that the One Piece franchise has achieved in 2021. Oda’s long-running manga revealed its one thousandth chapter earlier this yr and the One Piece anime, which debuted in 1999 and has remained certainly one of Japan’s highest rated exhibits all through its run, will air its one thousandth episode quickly.
One Piece was created by Eiichiro Oda and debuted in Weekly Shonen Leap in 1997. The sequence is now one of the best promoting manga of all time, with virtually half a billion in copies in circulation worldwide. Along with the manga, anime, and the handfuls of video video games primarily based on the sequence, One Piece merchandise additionally continues to be a giant vendor: the varied corporations concerned with producing merchandise for the sequence reported that from 2018 – 2019, One Piece generated over $468 million {dollars} in gross sales of clothes, toys, and different merch that includes the sequence’ iconography and characters.
The sequence’ subsequent evolution will probably be a live-action sequence by Netflix and Tomorrow Studios, who’re additionally concerned within the manufacturing of the upcoming Cowboy Bebop live-action remake. The brand new sequence is being written by The X-Recordsdata’ Steven Maeda and Luke Cage’s Matt Owens, and will probably be govt produced by Oda himself.
Along with the franchise’s industrial success, One Piece has additionally been a crucial darling all through its 24 yr existence. The manga has been nominated for a Kodansha Manga Award, and was a three-time finalist for the distinguished Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award. The sequence’ worldwide cultural affect was illustrated on the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, when a number of athletes from completely different nations publicly displayed their love of One Piece in the course of the competitors. In 2021, Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi named One Piece as one of the best manga of all time.
Regardless of One Piece‘s on-going success, Oda has not too long ago hinted that his opus will quickly attain its last conclusion.
Supply: Oricon, through Anime News Network
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