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One Piece Manga Gets 2 Books in June, July Compiling Chapter Cover Stories
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
This year's 25th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that Shueisha will release two books of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga that will compile the chapter cover stories from the manga. The two volumes are titled One Piece DOORS. The first volume will ship on June 4, and the second volume will ship on July 4. The volumes will also include a "special page."
Shueisha will also release the 89th volume of the main manga on June 4. The official One Piece Twitter account posted a picture of the cover of the volume on Friday (pictured at right).
Oda launched One Piece in Weekly Shonen Jump on July 19, 1997. The manga has 360 million copies in print in Japan and 70 million copies in print in over 42 other countries and territories, for a total of more than 430 million copies in print worldwide. The manga won the 41st Japan Cartoonist Awards in 2012, and set a Guinness World Record in 2015 for "the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author."
Sources: Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #25, One Piece Official Twitter Account
