Saying that Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece manga is extremely popular would be a complete understatement as the beloved shounen manga series has now reached yet another milestone — 300 million copies sold.
Arrr, that’s right lads and lassies, the straw hat pirates have sold that much manga since 1997 and to celebrate, Shueisha, publishers of Weekly Shounen Jump have announced that One Piece will be “jacking” newspapers across 47 prefectures all over Japan, by running a full-page, full-colour advert in these newspapers, as part of a “San Oku Thanx” campaign.
“San Oku” literally means 300,000,000 in Japanese. But when you replace the “o” in “oku” with the Straw Hats’ Pirates logo, like in the image below, you could also read the wordings as “Sanku”, which sounds like “Sankyuu” — the way that the Japanese pronounce “thank you”. So that answers the question why they’re celebrating the 300,000,000 milestone.
For a period of 20 days starting November 1, 2013, full-colored ads will be distributed. These ads will feature One Piece characters along with the attractions and specialties of each of the 47 Japanese prefectures these newspapers will be distributed in.
Part of the celebrations is a T-shirt design collaboration which will feature a design contest which should include the attractions of the prefecture as well as One Piece characters.
November 1: Aomori and Hokkaido
November 2: Iwate and Akita
November 3: Miyagi and Yamagata
November 4: Fukushima
November 5: Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa
November 6: Tochigi and Gunma
November 7: Yamanashi
November 8: Shizuoka and Nagano
November 9: Niigita and Aichi
November 10: Gifu
November 12: Fukui, Toyama and Ishikawa
November 13: Kyoto, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama
November 14: Nara and Mie
November 15: Hyogo
November 16: Okayama, Hiroshima and Tottori
November 17: Shimane, Yamaguchi and Kagawa
November 18: Tokushima, Ehime and Kochi
November 19: Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto
November 20: Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima and Okinawa
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Via Comic Natalie
One Piece celebrates 300,000,000 milestone with newspaper print ads all across Japan
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