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It’s been noted on 5ch that One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda lists the series’ cumulative print run right in his own profile. Each volume reportedly has an initial print run of around 3 million copies, but some pointed out that POS sales data shows a steady decline in actual sales, splitting opinion in the thread over how to read the gap between print numbers and real sales. The discussion expanded into comparisons with the print runs and volume sales of other titles like Demon Slayer, BLEACH, and Dragon Ball, with posters repeatedly raising the question of how meaningful a simple cumulative-print-run comparison really is.
What people said
Yeah, the old man's amazing after all!
Thanks, Pops
Harry Potter first, surely
He hated it so much when the story went exactly the way fan theories predicted that he started deliberately subverting them — and once you do that, you can't really do power-compatibility battles anymore
Though 'magma beats fire' was painfully bad
Give the forest back 😭 (joking about all the trees wasted on unsold copies)
That sales drop is brutal — put another way, it means more than two-thirds of former readers have decided it's just not interesting anymore
Neither Demon Slayer's momentum nor One Piece's is going anywhere
Meanwhile that manga called BLEACH, where it's only the fanboys who are loud…
seems like its momentum died out ages ago lol
Number two is Dragon Ball (nicknamed 'Gobo' here) at 260 million, so this is #1 by a landslide
Isn't it pretty pathetic that BLEACH fanboys used to trash-talk Demon Slayer, and now they're using it as their measuring stick?
Dragon Ball also beats One Piece
So both One Piece and Demon Slayer are each impressive in their own way, then
I only ever see Demon Slayer fanboys bring up per-volume sales
Tanjiro looks totally confused lol
old Naruto and old BLEACH also had episodes that were genuinely low-quality and shoddy
plus there's a ton of boring filler-original episodes too
When did anyone say that?
If you're gonna call the One Piece anime low quality, doesn't that make the manga itself garbage too, by that logic?
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
In the publishing industry, ‘print run’ refers to the number of copies delivered to distributors and bookstores, a different statistic from ‘actual sales,’ which reflects copies that actually reached readers. Cumulative print-run figures are sometimes published including copies later returned unsold, so the claim that first printings have held around 3 million copies per volume even as POS sales figures keep declining points to a growing gap between these two numbers. In this case, a single line in a profile section sparked a wider discussion comparing print-run rankings and sales with other titles such as Demon Slayer, BLEACH, and Dragon Ball. Whether you judge by cumulative print run, per-volume sales, or POS data changes the picture considerably, and that was the crux of the disagreement in the thread — it’s worth noting that such numbers often get compared without clearly stating their source or the date they were tallied.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread ‘[Image] One Piece’s original creator mysteriously writes his cumulative print run in his profile……….’
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