I don't think so. Superman is at 600 million copies sold. One Piece has around another 5 years. It'll be hard to reach that mark, unless there's some sort of an explosion, like in earlier years.
I imagine it'll overtake once we get into the final arc and hype/word of mouth goes through the roof.
The story is pretty good. The worldbuilding and characters are incredible.
Their best chance is to re-release the entire series in color like the digital version.
It is a great adventure story. It takes a few volumes to find it's groove but once it does it rarely stumbles. Great characters, an intriguing plot and fantastic world building. It's also only a few years away from ending according to its creator.
Pretty good but I think where it really shines is the character work, so many incredible ones with great backstories.
Don't manga usually get a push when they end and people go and buy older volumes to catch up? I think One Piece ending will be hyped up as a major event.
Are you thinking about Spider-Man? Superman is #1. OP hasn't overtaken it.
300 million I think which is even more impressive considering it only released 42 volumes.
Think it's any Batman related book
This is me, I set a side a small amount of moneys every months, so when One piece finish I'll buy the whole thing.
It just never hit that level of popularity in the US for whatever reason. If it had then it would have the sales record already.
Source
That is absolutely 100% the case though.
One Piece Hits Major New Sales Record
One Piece might have lost a reigning sales record to Demon Slayer last year, but that doesn't mean [...]comicbook.com
It sold 390 million copies in Japan and 80 million copies in all 42 other countries combined (back when it was at 470, not 480).
If you look at the quality over time no other Shonen manga has it beat. It doesn't stumble for over 500 chapters.
One Piece is #3 currently. Batman & Superman are still ahead as they have decades of sales
This is about individual series sales, not magazine sales. Those are tracked separately. But even in that category, Micky Maus isn't the best selling as Shonen Jump has sold over 7 billion to Micky Maus' 1 billion.
I didn't know there was a difference between magazines and other comics. When I read Micky Maus as a kid it was a flimsy book just like Spider-Man.
The Wikipedia article flags both those numbers as dubious and the source cited for Spiderman adds the total to just under 400 million. There's probably a discussion on the article page about fixing it
Need official art of this guy dunking on Bruce. lol
Our true hero Batman
