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NARRATIVE. The cult manga appeared in 1997. Twenty-five years later, 500 million copies have been sold worldwide. In Japan, it has become an industry.
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From our correspondent in Tokyo, Karyn Nishimura
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Erika is Japanese, she goes shopping in the streets of the crazy district of Shibuya in Tokyo, she is almost 50 years old. She was still a student or young employee when she started reading One Piece in publishing giant Shueisha’s weekly magazine Shonen Jump. However, it was already no longer in the core target of this periodical generally intended for teenagers. But it doesn’t matter, Erika is from this generation who let herself embark on the adventures of Luffy with her elastic body and her crew of pirates, from the first episodes published in 1997. One Piece has been, for a quarter of a century, the flagship series of Shonen Jumpa veritable nursery for cult manga, from dragonball at Demon SlayerPassing by naruto.
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