One Piece manga volume 67 breaks all time first print record in Japan!

4.05 million copies sold!!

Only followed by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by 2.9 million when it was released!

Saiyan Island has compiled a list of the first print numbers for the last 12 One Piece manga volumes. As you can see, the numbers just keep on increasing!

One Piece Manga Volume 67 – 4.05 million
One Piece Manga Volume 66 – 4.0 million
One Piece Manga Volume 65 – 4.0 million
One Piece Manga Volume 64 – 4.0 million
One Piece Manga Volume 63 – 3.9 million
One Piece Manga Volume 62 – 3.8 million
One Piece Manga Volume 61 – 3.8 million
One Piece Manga Volume 60 – 3.4 million
One Piece Manga Volume 59 – 3.2 million
One Piece Manga Volume 58 – 3.1 million
One Piece Manga Volume 57 – 3.0 million
One Piece Manga Volume 56 – 2.85 million

 To date, 270 million copies of the One Piece manga series have been printed, the largest number ever by a Shueisha manga series in Japan!

One Piece Z movie second trailer with more footage

The teaser highlights the battle between Luffy and "Z" (Zetto), the Straw Hat pirate crew's "strongest enemy yet." One Piece manga creator Eiichiro Oda personally designed Z.

The movie premieres on December 15.

One Piece's Eichiro Oda and Naruto's Masashi Kishimoto to redraw Kingdom manga!

AMAZING AND EPIC!!

One Piece creator Eichiro Oda and Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto are both participating in the "Social Kingdom" campaign in Japan to celebrate the upcoming television anime adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara's historical manga Kingdom.

 Manga creators, celebrities, and voice actors from the anime adaptation are contributing to the project to redraw the 26th volume of the Kingdom manga. Anyone with a Twitter or Facebook account can also participate. 

Participants select one of the about 1,000 panels from the book, redraw Hara's illustrations, and upload the art to create a new version of the manga.

Here's the link to participate:
http://socialkingdom.jp/

 Here are some samples of the redrawn panels:

 The campaign's creators plan to submit the "Social Kingdom" project to Guinness World Records as the "Manga Written by the Most People." The manga's story begins with Xin and Hyō, two boys without families in the Warring States Period when China has been embroiled in war for five centuries. Despite living like slaves, the boys strive to realize their dream of becoming warlords.

source: ANN

One Piece Z teaser 2

Another teaser trailer has sufficed, featuring Zeto, the character created by Eichiro Oda himself.

Tatsuya Nagamine is directing the film with Eiichiro Oda executive producing. The movie will hit Japanese theaters on December 15.

One Piece volume number 64 Gets Japan's 1st 4-Million prints!!

The Japanese publisher Shueisha is producing four million copies of the 64th volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece pirate manga — the latest volume in the series to set a record for the most copies in its first printing in Japan.

The volume is shipping on Friday. One Piece has been setting records in first printings since volume 56, which held the manga record in December of 2009 for 2.85 million copies. Volume 57 was the first volume to hold the record for all books in Japan, since its 3-million-copy first printing topped Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix's 2.9 million.

 Since then, every volume except volume 62 (published two months after the March 11 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake disaster) has set a new record in first printing. As of the 64th volume, Shueisha has published over 250 million copies of the manga series; One Piece has had the highest number of copies printed of any Shueisha manga series in Japan.

 The manga follows a rubber-bodied boy named Luffy who aims to become the Pirate King by leading a motley crew, including a three-sword-wielding Zoro and the female navigator Nami. The manga has been running in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine since 1997, and the ongoing television anime series premiered in 1999.

source: ANN