It is an installation worthy of a Goncourt.
On Wednesday, volume 100 of the
One Piece
manga
will be released in France with an exceptional circulation of 250,000 copies.
“This is the biggest print run ever for a manga on the French market,”
says Benoît Huot, manga editorial manager at Glénat.
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The enthusiasm is such that the collector's edition of volume 100, with its faux leather cover, has been out of stock for several weeks on e-commerce sites.
“However, we have increased the quantities to meet demand.
This represents several tens of thousands of copies, ”
continues the manager.
The unlucky ones will have to fall back on book resale sites, where
One Piece
Collector's Editions are
trading for five times their original price.
Sales of volume 100 are already shaping up to be exceptional.
Published in September, the previous volume of the saga sold 73,000 copies in a single week, a historic score for a manga.
“In this segment, we
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