ONE PIECE is often at the top of the charts, whether it's sales figures, manga or anime ratings, or other types. The legendary pirate world created by Eiichiro Oda is currently at the peak of the wave, but was the situation the same years ago? Let's find out together.
As many are aware, Weekly Shonen Jump magazine conducts a weekly poll asking readers what their top three shows of this issue are. This then greatly affects the order of appearance of the series in the magazine. A fan wanted to replicate this order, how many times ONE PIECE landed high in the polls and therefore more or less understand the trend of manga since its inception.
The result is the table you see below with the ONE PIECE votes for each story arc. The user boss Aesop also divided the various narrative threads into several stages in order to observe a broader trend. in the left column a chronological trend can be seen and it can be seen that ONE PIECE has always been constant over time, with excellent results from the start. In particular, the first narrative arc has an average value of 3.41, despite the worst public reception to date.
That is, right from the start ONE PIECE was in the top 3 most popular manga by Weekly Shonen Jump, bearing in mind that the first manga of the magazine is always the one with the first color pages, therefore forcing everyone to drop one position regardless of their previous results. Afterward, ONE PIECE no longer fell out of the top 2which confirms how much the increase in value has remained almost unchanged over time.
And now who knows how the polls will go on the Egghead saga which is obviously still ongoing and therefore the 2.44 is only temporary, although unlikely to be placed in any other positions than intended.
