One Piece has just reached a new milestone. This places the manga among the ranks of the world’s most famous superheroes.
What has One Piece achieved? As the One Piece insider newworldartur reveals on his X account, One Piece has now sold over 600 million manga volumes. This sales figure includes the 113 volumes that the manga has published so far. Included are 1155 chapters full of adventures featuring Luffy and the Straw Hat crew.
Since the first edition of the manga was released in 1997, One Piece has achieved this incredible sales number in almost 30 years. The franchise has long been the best-selling manga of all time.
This is partly due to the fact that it is one of the longest-running mangas. But with 600 million units sold, it now also measures up against the comic world.
One Piece measures up to Superman
What does that have to do with Superman? In the manga world, only comics that originate from Japan are counted. However, there are also comics from the rest of the world, and Superman leads the sales units there. According to Statista, this comic has also sold over 600 million units.
The big difference: The first adventures with Superman appeared in 1938, making the franchise nearly 90 years old. Furthermore, Superman is said to have launched over 18,700 issues (as seen on Comic Vine).
One Piece is still far from such a gigantic number. Since we don’t have exact sales figures, we can’t say for sure who leads between One Piece and Superman. However, the manga has sold a similar number of volumes as Superman and even left other comic giants like Batman and Spider-Man behind. And that is the astonishing part.
Is there still an exciting announcement? In this context, it was also revealed that a popular voting event will return (as reported on Reddit). In the past, fans were able to vote on which character from One Piece is the most popular. What was special about this voting was that really all people and even animals were included as options.
This survey is set to be repeated as the second global character popularity poll. It is expected to start soon. However, the exact date has not yet been announced.
It’s nice that so many characters are considered in this survey, who have appeared in over 1500 chapters. But with so many figures, some characters are neglected. MeinMMO presents 5 that we want to see more often: There are many cool characters in One Piece, but these 5 we see far too rarely
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