The record is held by Eiichiro Oda’s A piece in the Guinness Book of World Records has received an update. The manga series has generated more copies than it did when it first received the world record in December 2014.
Hiroyuki Nakanoeditor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Jumpshow new Guinness certificate on official A piece employee account on Twitter. It shows that there are already 416,566,000 copies A piece The book was circulated from December 1997 to July 2022.
The Japanese press release notes that the number in the certificate only counts the number of books published domestically in Japan. The Twitter account adds that the manga has more than 500 million copies in print worldwide. That means about 84 million copies have been circulated outside of Japan.
In June 2022, Eiichiro Oda has one month hiatus from the publication of new chapters. He wants to recharge and prepare for the final season of the series. The hiatus did not reduce the series’ popularity, the series continued to be published in the July 25, 2022 issue of Shonen dance.
In addition to the original manga, anime and game adaptation of A piece are also blooming. The A piece Movie: Red movie will release in Japan on August 6, 2022 and in West in autumn 2022. Meanwhile, Bandai Namco is improve One Piece Odysseyan RPG that will arrive on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, and PC in 2022.
