Summary
- Eiichiro Oda is the 7th best-selling author in history, with over 530 million sales of One Piece.
- One Piece’s popularity during the Summit War shows potential for even higher sales as the series nears its conclusion.
- Oda and One Piece could break into the top 5 best-selling authors, with potential for over 700 million sales.
One Piece is the biggest manga ever, and it is written and illustrated by the famous Eiichiro Oda.
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The One Piece series is long, and filled with exciting moments and adventures, the characters and the story have captivated fans so much so, especially over the last almost 3 decades, that this manga has become one of the best-selling stories of all time, making Oda one of the best selling authors in history.
Eiichiro Oda is One Of the Best Selling Authors in History
The 7th Best Selling Author
Eiichiro Oda is the famous mangaka who is currently still working on his series, One Piece. Oda’s One Piece has done incredible numbers, currently being the most-sold manga in history, and by far.
However, Oda isn’t just competing on the manga side, his sales are so incredible that he is able to compete with the best-selling authors in history.
In fact, right now, Oda is ranked as the 7th best-selling author in history, being the only one on that list that has a manga, and not a novel. Oda, in the last few years, beat JK Rowling with her huge Harry Potter series.
The current sales estimate for One Piece is over 530 million. And, One Piece has still not ended, so this sales figure is only going to go up, especially as the final arc starts and the backlog sales commence. One Piece could easily go over 700 million by the time it ends, and more than that afterward, as its popularity will not necessarily decrease.
In that way, Oda could potentially break into the top 5 best-selling authors in the world. There are definitely a few authors that would be pretty impossible to surpass, like Agatha Christie or Shakespeare, but One Piece and Oda will definitely have their spot in the Hall of Fame of best-selling single authors.
I’m going to be King of the Pirates! — Monkey D. Luffy
The One Piece series itself experienced its highest sales ever during the Summit War, when the Marineford arc was drawn. All these exciting events made the manga sell unprecedentedly, and from what fans know, this will be nothing compared to the Final War to come which will conclude the series. Of course, One Piece projects will likely continue, such as prequels, sequels, and other anime adaptations. These all help the manga.
One Piece
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
