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bigivel
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Yep, One Piece is number one best selling manga this year too!
Shingeki will only do 15 Millions while One Piece has at least 17 Millions. |
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dtm42
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So even a colossus such as Attack on Titan was not enough to overthrow the overlord. Damn. |
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pykrete
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17.207 million copies already includes volume 71 which went on sale this November?
If yes, woah - it was close. My spreadsheet has 14505951 for Shingeki, not yet including the unranked weeks for volumes 1 to 10 and the special edition sales. Had One Piece not released 4 volumes, only about a million difference. |
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Banken
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For what it's worth, 300 million copies means that every single man, woman, and child in Japan has, on average, 2.5 volumes of One Piece.
At 500 yen a piece (the average current price of a new manga volume, although Jump series are more like 450 yen...ten years ago it was more like 375 yen), that's 150 billion yen in sales. Which is 1.5 billion dollars. Assuming Ota gets 10% of sales (which is probably higher than he actually gets), that means he's made 150,000,000 million off manga royalties alone. Assuming he gets that in Anime royalties, he's worth 300,000,000 dollars. Oh, to be talented and creative... and really, really [expletive] lucky. (2 hours of sleep per night be damned!) That said, One Piece will probably be his last series. 1. because it is the cash cows to end all cash cows. 2. because his work schedule will eventually kill him. |
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bigivel
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10% of royalties is the average a amateur mangaka receives! Unless Oda is a super good(or stupid) guy then he should receive more than that(around 15%). He slept 3 hours per day when he was working on Strong World movie, normally he sleeps the normal 6-7 hours a day(probably  ). Well, the only thing that I know is that he only works like crazy when completing a manuscript, and that takes 2-3 days(in those days he probably don't sleep), and he has at least one entire day to relax(this was all said by him in an SBS).
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dtm42
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Oda is not as rich as people think he is, although he's still quite wealthy:
animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-12-22/magazine/one-piece-creator-oda-made-2-billion-yen Two billion yen is like twenty million American dollars, and that was just one year's worth of income (includes merchandising). Interesting that the royalty percentage used was ten percent. |
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grooven
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Banken
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That's per year. I'm talking about net worth, although he'd be losing about 40% of it to taxes since he's in the highest tax bracket in Japan, and obviously may have used a good deal of it. |
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dtm42
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Not necessarily. Akagi has been going since 1992 and yet its sales per volume are one-fiftieth that of Attack on Titan. Longevity does not always equal sales. One Piece does have a huge amount of total sales, but Attack on Titan almost dethroned it over sales in a single year. Almost.
Oh, I know. But it was interesting to see how the calculation was done for his yearly income, especially with regards to royalty percentage and the amount of merchandise. |
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yukimasuka
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in one of the popular japanese program, they estimated that oda make around $40 million. in either cases, both figures are estimate. in the ANN link u gave, the magazine did not take into account for anime royalties. also, oda wrote and PRODUCED strong world and Z. this means that he gets a large amount of money. and dont forget, the subway and nonmanga magazine campaign during the 200 million celebration must have bring him some $. also, the newpaper campaign that been going in nov 2013 is significant $wise. dont forget the taiwain OP exhibition as well as smaller campaign to celebrate 300 million copies. and that calc from the link did not take into account that Oda gets paid for weekly publication as well. im sure he is one of the highest paid mangaka in SJ when it comes to $/page. 19 pages (color pages & cover cost more and OP has plenly of those per year) and ~40 weeks, including the breaks he tends to take. and dont forget oversea licensing, iirc one ANN article says that OP oversea profits is around 5-10 million (no sure exactly). im sure oda gets some of that too. Last edited by yukimasuka on Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:36 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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yukimasuka
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sure, it almost did if u only look at it this year wher OP sale is slowing decreasing after it massive spike from 2009-2011. im sure of 1 thing though, AoT might not see this figure again next year. second season anime might not even have this massive boost. sadly, AoT is gonna end in at or in 20 volumes. i really want to see how far the series can go. at least, they are "milking" it before it dies off like other short running hit. |
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Sariachan
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2. Don't even joke about it. 
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Banken
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I'm serious. Three hours of sleep a day for 15+ years should have already killed him (or at least caused many more health-related hiatuses than it already has), unless he's been strongly exaggerating this whole time. |
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Sariachan
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Read bigivel's post; I don't think Oda always "sleeps" like that. ^^' |
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bigivel
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He was only doing that schedule when working for Strong World! People change stuff just to make things seem crazier. He said that in an interview at the time ow Strong World! Why should we believe that after that he would do the same thing? In an SBS he tells how is weekly schedule is and has nothing like 3 hours sleep. In the SBS he says(In my words): 1- Time to relax with family and other things(days. How many I don't know, probably the weekend). 2- Reunion with editor about what to do in next chapter. 3- Really thinking what to do in next chapter. 4- Definitive discussion with editor about what to do in next chapter. 5- Making NAME. 6- Receive response of editor about NAME. Things to remove and Changes to make. If I don't agree with the editor changes, then fight otherwise make the changes and repeat the cycle. 7- Name made. Call assistants and for 2 to 3 day we go crazy making the manuscript. 8- Reunion with Volume producers(they aren't the magazine, is another section of the company, called Jump comics) about next volume. We decide the name of the volume, the cover and the extra things to put in it. Notice that 1 to 6 and 8 don't make a person to stress and only sleep for 3 hours. In 7 is probably the only time where he works so hard that don't sleep or only sleeps a little(3 hour?). If you add the Production of Strong World than Is easy to see that he would work for the movie in the afternoons, probably everyday(minus weekend and the 2 to 3 days of making the manuscript) making him work for the magazine at night and the morning and having only little time to sleep. |
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