Okay, by 8 billion I mean 1 million. But that means that volume 50 of One Piece sold 1 million copies in one week. THAT IS A LOT OF COPIES. The actual total number, as of Oricon’s update, was 1,074,745…and it’s only rising, I’m sure.

Now, that doesn’t make it the top-selling manga to date. Nana volume 19 sold 1,374,035 in one week (I’ve been corrected, apparently that’s the 1-month sales figure for that volume– and a couple of people have mentioned that this isn’t One Piece’s highest figure, either, but does that make it any less spiffy?). But hey, Naruto v42 has only sold 922,000 copies in six weeks. Not bad for a shounen series that’s been running for 10 years, eh?