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smokes
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amazing..
and the manga is halfway through.. the only shounen manga that deserves investing time in it. |
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Emma Iveli
Posts: 679 Location: Hobo with internet |
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Wow... that's amazing.
One Piece is my absolute favorite and it's understandable why it's so popular. The story is awesome. Imagine what it would be like in America if Funimation got it first thing. |
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Zach Logan
Posts: 5 Location: New York, NY |
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Fantastic news! One Piece just continues to break my expectations at each go around on the Oricon rankings. Glad to see such a deserving series dominate the top five selling Manga volumes of 2010. Here's to a repeat in 2011!
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Sailor S
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It probably would be much like it is now. Slightly improved, but not a whole lot. Now, if Funimation had been able to bring it out when DBZ was at the height of its popularity, then perhaps there would have been a difference.
While I'm sure it's just a tiny drop in the bucket, I wonder if that takes into account world wide sales, or if that's just in Japan itself? I'm not sure if the Oricon charts track all that or not. |
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littlegreenwolf
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No different I bet. We here in the West don't like anything to do with pirates unless it involves Johnny Depp. Hollywood has known this for decades, and it's why just about every pirate-based movie and tv series has flopped. Pirates of the Caribbean is the exception. Now ninjas ... ninjas are a foreign concept to us, and hence we get a lot of ninja movies and properties. Ninjas automatically get a "cool" factor here while pirates are laughed at. |
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InnocentSorrow59
Posts: 156 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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I'm from the West and I like pirates. xD But you're right. Finding anyone who likes pirates and not ninjas is rare. (Unless the pirates are from Pirates of the Caribbean.) Pirates don't necessarily get laughed at, but they don't have such a high cool rating. Still, as a One Piece fan, I am happy. WHOO!!! GO ONE PIECE!! And of course the man behind it all, Eiichiro Oda. His awesomeness is unmeasurable. |
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Shay Guy
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Cosplaybunny
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Yep that's why no one here has heard of Treasure Island, Goonies, Pirates of Panzanse, Princess Bride, or Peter Pan. Those darn pirates just ruin those movies. |
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SonicRenegade84
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Wolf was talking about movies nowadays.
And this record doesn't concern me since OP has been popular in Japan for some time now. Though it amazes me that it's taken 13 years to make 60 volumes of a manga. And that's without a break? -_- hmm... |
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ArsenicSteel
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Well those volumes have only been published in Japan so far. Oricon's numbers are just based on what sells in Japan. |
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ssgOverlord
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What's hard to believe? He'd be roughly 30 chapters short assuming he continuously worked from serialization, and that's not much honestly, considering breaks and double issues. To me that's impressive. |
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Keiichi-chan
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yay! go, one piece and nodame!!
re: whether one piece would be popular or not, one piece would be a lot bigger in the US if it aired somewhere like adult swim, even now. it's never been on tv, uncut, in a place where people will actually see it. |
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Dumnerd
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Besides, if by some miracle One Piece did get picked up by [as], they'll treat it like all other anime on the network: - It would air early Sunday morning w/ no encores (so if you don't have a DVR, you'll be SOL); - It would be in SD only and non-anamorphic widescreen (the HD simulcast would be upscaled from the SD broadcast w/ what I call "wide-stretching"); - No ads for it during any other [as] program (but [as] will run ONE ad, just before One Piece airs). In short, it's a no-win situation. On the other hand, if One Piece got on Nicktoons, Disney XD or even on FUNi's own network, FUNimation Channel, maybe; but as it stands now, I think FUNi is better off streaming the series online w/ DVD releases for those of us who still collect them. |
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whitefangrazorblade
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Great news for me as well as to other ONE PIECE fan out there. This manga is worth the time reading, hopefully next year more volumes will be sold, well i'm sure of it, ODA will continue to impress us specially now that the characters are a lot stronger than they are before, fight will be intense, and we are approaching the New World of adventure.
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littlegreenwolf
Posts: 4796 Location: Seattle, WA |
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Goonies was about finding a Pirate Treasure, the kids weren't pirates. Pirates of Penzance is an opera - do we really need to go why this isn't popular with youth? Princess Pride had "dread pirate roberts" but never got into the pirate stuff, and peter pan... pirates are the bad guys who are for the most part laughed at. Go look up pirate centered movies and you'll see a long list of flops. I still think Cutthroat Island is one of the most underrated movies of the 90s, but alas, people just don't like a good pirate adventure here. |
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