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NEWS: One Piece #62's 1st Printing Matches #61's 3.8-Million-Copy Run

I guess we hit the ceiling on how many copies of manga they can do for a single print run.

Called it.

yamiangie wrote:

I guess we hit the ceiling on how many copies of manga they can do for a single print run.

It's because of the earthquake+tsunami - lots of shops and lives destroyed. No sense printing more when less could be sold.

enurtsol wrote:

Called it. yamiangie wrote: I guess we hit the ceiling on how many copies of manga they can do for a single print run. It's because of the earthquake+tsunami - lots of shops and lives destroyed. No sense printing more when less could be sold.

Are you serious? Unless you have some source to back that info up, that sounds like pure hyperbole. I don't think this has anything to do with the earthquake and only has to do with the fact that they doubt it'll outsell the latest volume, since the last two have sold so much its becoming doubtful any manga could really do better.

If only OP was this popular in America

That's an amazing run, especially considering the circumstances.

Lizzie_B wrote:

If only OP was this popular in America

No kidding, wouldn't that be awesome? It's a somewhat difficult series to warm up to, but once you get into it y'can't help but fall in love with the series.

koinosuke wrote:

enurtsol wrote: Called it. yamiangie wrote: I guess we hit the ceiling on how many copies of manga they can do for a single print run. It's because of the earthquake+tsunami - lots of shops and lives destroyed. No sense printing more when less could be sold. Are you serious? Unless you have some source to back that info up, that sounds like pure hyperbole. I don't think this has anything to do with the earthquake and only has to do with the fact that they doubt it'll outsell the latest volume, since the last two have sold so much its becoming doubtful any manga could really do better.

You must've been missing all the Japanese news where a lot of sales are nosediving. A large area of Japan is inhabitable whether to wreckage or radiation. Up to 30,000 people are gone; multitudes more can't go back to their homes or lost big savings. Heck, April's new car sales -Japan's powerhouse- haven't been so low since 1968! It's amazing that One Piece's print run didn't decline - who's gonna buy all that and where are they gonna put it? The continuing crisis has done a number on the Japanese economy.

enurtsol wrote:

You must've been missing all the Japanese news where a lot of sales are nosediving. A large area of Japan is inhabitable whether to wreckage or radiation. Up to 30,000 people are gone; multitudes more can't go back to their homes or lost big savings. Heck, April's new car sales -Japan's powerhouse- haven't been so low since 1968! It's amazing that One Piece's print run didn't decline - who's gonna buy all that and where are they gonna put it? The continuing crisis has done a number on the Japanese economy.

I live in Japan. Believe me, the situation in areas up north is terrible...but nothing like the image you and the media seem to like to paint of vast swaths of land destroyed and a huge percentage of the population displaced. It's a tragedy that lays heavy on all our minds...but the great, great majority of Japan remains physically unaffected, including Tokyo and the entire Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe region, where a huge percentage of all Japanese people live. This idea that there aren't places to "put" more manga is ridiculous. Sure, the economy is down, but this is a $3 manga we're talking about, not a car that costs thousands of dollars. The earthquake has little or nothing to do with this.