Iwan A. Fanani

ONE PIECE (ワ ン ピ ー ス

HISTORY OF ONE PIECE

One Piece (ワ ン ピ ー ス wanpīsu) is an anime and manga about a group of pirates led by Monkey D. Luffy who went looking for a legendary treasure called One Piece. Luffy into a rubber man who has the power to lengthen his body after inadvertently eating the fruit Gomu Gomu, one of the fruit of the devil. During the trip Luffy met many new friends and enemies are diverse.

One Piece created by Eiichiro Oda. Comic started in 1997 in Shonen Jump published by Shueisha and still continues. TV version of his starts in October 1999. In Indonesia, the manga is published by Elex Media Komputindo and up to now has reached volume to 60 more. His TV version, which was produced Toei, has reached 500 episodes in Japan. Until now, One Piece has released 12 films, the last one was released on December 15, 2012. In Indonesia alone RCTIdan ever aired on Global TV.

In February 2005, One Piece record in Japan as a manga publishing the fastest reach 100 million copies. Until now the One Piece is one of the best-selling manga in the history of Japan with sales of more than 260 million copies. Besides the One Piece manga also broke the record for the highest first printing. One Piece a lot of praise among readers, especially in terms of images, characters, humor, and stories.

One Piece manga began serialized in Shonen Jump magazine issue # 34 on August 4, 1997. The anime began to be produced by Toei Animation, Fuji Television on October 20, 1999. At first, Eiichiro Oda One Piece plan will run about 5 years, and he has set the ending. But he was too "enjoy" the story and now he does not know when One Piece will end.

One Piece is the best-selling manga in the history of Shonen Jump. Manga is also why Shonen Jump total sales rose in the last 11 years. Volume 25, holds the record sales of manga in Japan, with 2.63 million units sold in the first printing. And 46 volume reached more than 140 million units sold and is the fastest manga which achieved total sales of 100 million.

Until now One Piece broke the record as the best-selling manga in history. The success of One Piece even exceed the combined number 2 Naruto, no 3 Kimi ni Todoke, Fairy Tail No. 4, No. 5 Bleach, Bakuman No. 6, No. 7 Gintama, and No. 8 Fullmetal Alchemist One Piece with total sales of more than 300 million copies.

One Piece also broke the world record for the fastest selling with volume 63 sold 2,119,400 in 4 days (although the previous record also held by One Piece volume 60 and 61). Moreover One Piece Japan also set a record as the largest first print run. One Piece volume 63 holds the Japanese record with 3.9 million copies in the first printing (although the previous record held by One Piece 60, 61, and 62) the record before the One Piece is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixdengan 2.9 million copies.