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One piece vol. 50 sells 1 million copies in a week of release
Naruto vol. 42 has been released for 6 weeks and has only sold 922,782 copies as compared to One Piece’s sales of 1,074,745 in one week. I’ve been surprised lately how One Piece actually manages to stay interesting even after going for more than 10 years as compared to the other Jump comics that tend to lose steam after a few years…
Dengeki Gakuen RPG official site
Completely zero information as like before, aside from the title.
Bazett appears in Fate/Unlimited Code
Except she’s already dead. …or technically not dead. I hope she’ll be unlockable in the game. I mean, even Luvia is in there.
Surge in police patrols in Akihabara
And they apparently patrol the area with the police baton always in one hand now, instead of having it hang by the waist as before. Patrol cars are also being sighted frequently.
Akihabara’s main road will also no longer be closed from vehicular traffic on Sundays or public holidays for an undetermined period of time now. I guess they might take the chance to finally end it.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
HAY GUYZ, I’M VISITING AKIBA! RIGHT NOW IT MIGHT JUST FOR A MONTH OR TWO, BUT IF I CAN GET THE BALL ROLLING I’LL BE HERE TO STAY!
http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=4868
June 12th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
>>Except she’s already dead
ATATATATATA
June 12th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Is that mostly dead or dead dead?
June 12th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
One Piece sales are not really big news. A One Piece volume sold 2.6 million in 2002, and 2.2 million in 2006. It’s actually dropping in sales, like almost everyone else. A Naruto volume sold 1.6 million in 2005. Oricon is only reporting on it since it just started its revised book ranking system in April.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
>CrystalFalls
Oh One Piece being interesting was a personal opinion on the recent issues of Jump and not a comment on the sales.
Also about that comment about 2.6 million in 2002 and 2.2 million in 2006, that was the total number of books that was printed on the first print run, not the total sales numbers (this is the first time actual sales numbers are being collated and released).
The first print run for Volume 48 of One Piece was still 2.44 million when it was released in December 2007, as compared to Naruto’s 1.48 million first print run for vol 40 (1.62 million was Naruto’s highest print run). Also, Hunter x Hunter’s vol 25 first print run was 1.52 million, which baaasically places it in the no.2 position in Jump and shows why Togashi never gets kicked out.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
It’s true that the old stats are not total sales numbers, since the old volumes have been reprinted several times since (hence the year caps). However, the Oricon’s new numbers are also not total sales numbers since Oricon doesn’t track all sales and it clearly says that these new figures are estimates.
Either way, older One Piece volumes have sold more than newer One Piece volumes–which is no knock against a great series like One Piece, since that’s basically true for many other series.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Yeah but in the end, you shouldn’t be comparing the number of books that were sold in a week against the number of books that were printed in a print run because they’re completely different things.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Hey. You know…
Japan can finally solve their unemployment problem: Create more police jobs. :)