"One Piece" sets Guinness world record for selling over 500 Million issues, Eiichiro Oda surpasses J.K Rollings as the 9th best selling author ever

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One Piece Manga Sets Guinness World Record With Over 500 Million Published

Shueisha announced on Thursday that Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga has surpassed 500 million copies published worldwide as of the release of the manga's 103rd compiled book volume on the same day.

416,566,000 of those copies are in Japan, and 100 million copies are in 60 countries and territories outside of Japan. (In the past, Shueisha has used the Japanese term for "published" in reporting its manga statistics, but clarified that these figures include both print and digital copies.)

with the announcement Oda surpassed J.k Rollings and became the 9th best selling fiction author in history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_fiction_authors

Author	Min. estimated sales	Max. estimated sales	Original language	Genre and/or major works	Number of books	Nationality
William Shakespeare	2 billion[1]	4 billion[2]	English	Plays and poetry e.g.A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet	42	English
Agatha Christie	2 billion[3]	4 billion[2]	English	Whodunits including the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot series	85	British
Barbara Cartland	500 million[4]	750 million[5]	English	Romance	723	British
Danielle Steel	500 million[6]	800 million[7]	English	General fiction, Romance	179	American
Harold Robbins	750 million[8]	750 million[9]	English	Adventure	23	American
Georges Simenon	500 million[10]	700 million[11]	French	Detectives, Maigret, romans dur	570	Belgian
Enid Blyton		600 million[12]	English	Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven	800	English
Sidney Sheldon	370 million[13]	600 million[14]	English	Suspense	21	American
Eiichiro Oda	516.5 million[15]	516.5 million[15]	Japanese	Manga, One Piece	103	Japanese
J. K. Rowling	500 million[16]	500 million[16]	English	Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Cormoran Strike , Young Adult,fantasy, crime fiction	22	British