Popular manga series �ONE PIECE� has released its 64th volume; publishing company Shueisha revealed on November 4th that 4,000,000 copies of the newest addition to the series had been issued.� This is a first for both the publishing company and Japanese publishing.
Since 1997, Oda Eiichiro�s series has been serialized in �Weekly Shonen Jump.�� Since the release of the first volume in the series, there have been a total of 250,000,000 prints and reprints of the series.� In 2010, 3,000,000 copies of the 57th volume in the series were initially issued; in contrast, only 2,900,000 sets of �Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix� were initially issued in 2004. (Sayzansha, 2004.)� Since then, the number of volumes issued upon release has increased with each new addition to the series.
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"ONE PIECE" breaks publishing records with the release of its 64th volume
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