The longevity of a series can sometimes turn into a double-edged sword that writers must best manage without making obvious narrative compromises or questionable evasions. Eiichiro Oda, the father of ONE PIECEon the other hand, he masterfully manages the impressive number of chapters of his masterpiece.
We’re in the final stages of the Wano saga, but the serialization of the narrative arc was caught up in a pandemic and an increasingly worrying routine on the part of the Sensei, which inevitably forced him to slow down the release of the weekly chapters. Currently actually Oda takes a break about every 2 or 3 chaptersnecessary to give him the opportunity to catch his breath with the working rhythms and the management of the script.
Anyway, a fan recently packed all the latest Oricon data for the last 14 years into an iconography to better understand itSelling performance of ONE PIECE. As you can see from the graph at the end of the news, the sales of the manga have therefore been declining for several years, a decline that is due both to the longevity of the series and to the fewer chapters published each year, which also affects the Number of volumes published by Shueisha. Obviously, these numbers are and will remain very high and there is nothing to worry about, but it is interesting to note the downward trend in manga sales since the 2011 peak.
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