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One Piece keeps beating records; volume 65 will be printed 4 millon times

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date January 30, 2012
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One Piece volume 65 will be released in Japan on February 3rd; 4 million volumes will go on sale beating the previous record of 3.8 million volumes, also held by another One Piece volume. If you do the math that means that around 3% of the Japanese population is reading One Piece at the moment, most likely even more.

One Piece volume 65 cover. The volume will be released at the end of this week

Selling more than a million volumes is considered a huge success for a manga in Japan. There are not many manga series that can achieve such a feat: Nodame Cantabile, Bleach, Naruto, Full Metal Alchemist and Kimi no Todoke.

Regarding total volume sales since the beginning of a manga series, One Piece is the number 1 manga series in the historical ranking having sold 250 million volumes in Japan, followed by Kochi no kame and Dragon Ball both having sold nearly 200 volumes.

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Rikugi-en Garden

The other day CaDs and I decided to explore a little bit the area north from Yamanote line. It is not one of the most interesting areas in Tokyo but there are some places that are worth a visit. We went to Komagome station and walking five minutes out of the station we arrived to Rikugi-en gardens (六義園 ,Google Maps).

The park was built at the end of the 17th century by the fifth Tokugawa shogun and has belonged to the Tokyo townhall since almost one hundred years ago. The design of the gardens emulates the landscapes of other places in Japan, for example, the lake is a representation of the coast in Kamakura. In the center, next to the lake, you can have a matcha with some candy for 500 yen.