New One Piece special will premiere on December

Following the special we had around Nami, FujiTV announced that a television anime special, One Piece Episode of Luffy: Hand Island no Bōken (One Piece Episode of Luffy: The Hand Island Adventure), will air on Saturday, December 15 at 9:00 p.m. One Piece anime airs on Sunday mornings.

 These specials serve as a tie in for the upcoming movie One Piece Z, which premieres also on December 15. Author Eichiro Oda is supervising the scripts.

The story of the Hand Island no Bōken special is set a little before the events of One Piece Film Z and depicts a major "Hand Island" incident during the New World storyline. The story is set at "Cannon Town" where a parent and a child work as craftspeople. The incident revolves around them and a commodore of a marine base. The special will also have a flashback scene to the story in the first chapter of the manga, but with new animation.

One Piece is the most sold manga in the history of Shonen Jump magazine

Japanese publisher Shueisha published their all time top 10 best selling manga titles from Weekly Shonen Jump magazine by volume sales in their advertising guide, as of February of 2012:

'Nuff said, One Piece exceeds them all by far. 

Source: ANN

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!

Sailor Moon manga soars again in U.S bookstores! Naruto at #3

The fifth volume of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga ranked #2 in Nielsen BookScan's list of top 20 graphic novels in American bookstores for May, only to be beaten by The Avengers: The Ultimate Guide to the Earth's Mightiest Heroes, which took the #1 spot.

Whereas the 56th volume of Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga ranked at #3. The other two manga volumes in the top 20 are the 62nd volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece (#13) and the ninth volume of Yana Toboso's Black Butler (#16). The same volume of Black Butler had ranked at #14 in April.

source: ANN

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