One piece ready to set a new record? Released just a week ago, volume 100 of Eiichiro Oda’s manga has sold 131,270 copies in just three days, announces Glénat, according to data from the GFK institute. “This feat makes One piece volume 100 the number 1 in sales of the book market on its launch week ”, rejoices its publisher in the press release.
And it’s not over. Apart from this new chapter of Luffy’s adventures, eagerly awaited, Glénat specifies that volume 1 of One piece “Continues to please and attract new readers”. As proof, the 11,843 copies sold over the same week, or 260,000 over the whole of 2021.
A print run of 250,000 copies
The success is up to the expectations of the publisher, since volume 100 was printed in 250,000 copies for its release, the largest circulation of all time for a manga. These prints include the classic manga from this chapter but also a collector’s edition with its faux leather cover.
One piece Will he dethrone the great bookstore success that is Asterix and the Griffin ? As revealed The Parisian by mid-November, the latest adventures of the Gauls had sold over 1.2 million copies in less than a month. A challenge that the manga phenomenon could take up.