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It is a given that One Piece is immensely popular in Japan, but is there any
statistical data indicating the scale of its popular it is (historically, with
respect to other popular series) in Japan?

Note that I am **NOT** asking "What makes One Piece so popular (in Japan)?"


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How popular is One Piece in Japan?


The wikipedia article about One Piece has some interesting statistics.
According to [it](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece#cite_note-
comipress2008-1), in 2008 Once Piece became the highest-circulated manga
series (whatever that means), achieving a circulation of 5,956,540, according
to [this page](http://comipress.com/article/2008/12/31/3733). To compare:
Naruto, which had the second place, had a circulation of 4,261,054.

In 2010 it was announced that 260 millions of manga volumes had been sold, and
Volume 61 set a record as the highest initial print run of any book in Japan
in history, with 3.8 million copies. If you think about it, it's _huge_. It
even beats Harry Potter's sale rates.

It is also mentioned that One Piece is the best-selling series of all time in
manga history, exceeding [270 million
volumes](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-23/top-10-shonen-jump-
manga-by-all-time-volume-sales) sold as of [February
2012](http://adnavi.shueisha.co.jp/mediaguide/2012/pdf/boys.pdf).

![The Big Picture](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6p1rQ.gif)

Just to compare (although it may not be an exact analogy),
[here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#List_of_best-
selling_book_series) is the list of the most selling book series in history.

You can find some more infomation and numbers in [the "reception"
part](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece#Manga_2) of the article.


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