For those Narutards claiming that Naruto is more popular than One Piece, you guys COMPLETELY FAIL at doing research. One Piece is considered to be the superior anime/manga when compared with Naruto. One Piece is more original, more funny, has more plot twists, it's more complicated, has better character development, less fillers, more intense fight scenes, better flashbacks, better drama, and better plot and characters. I recommend one piece more. Also, One Piece is more popular than Naruto. In Japan, it has topped DBZ in sales and became the best selling manga. Each year, it sells more than naruto and bleach combined. It is also the #1 most popular anime and manga in 80% of Asian Countries (including Japan and China, which have the top two highest anime fans populations in the world). It's also more succesful than Naruto in some parts of europe. Worldwide, one piece is more popular than naruto and bleach (i know sales is what makes a manga good but i'm just saying that it couldn't be that popular if it sucked) because 2/3 of the anime/manga fans live in asia. Japan alone has over 50% of the manga fans on this planet. Should I add the entire asian continent as well? One Piece clearly wins in popularity. Overall, like I said, One Piece is better. If anyone out there isn't listen to me, then listen to Akira Toriyama who said one piece is the best manga he ever read. Toriyama also considers one piece to be the true successor to his DBZ manga. The rest of Japan sees One Piece as superior to Naruto. Naruto is nowhere near as popular as One Piece in Japan and Asia. One Piece holds the records in Japan for:
-Being the best selling manga of all time in Japan
-Being the fastest selling manga to reach 100 million copies in Japan
-Having the best selling manga volume in all Japanese history (volume 24)
-Being the first manga to sell over 200 million copies in Japan
One Piece has been #1 in Japan for the past 12 years and Naruto wasn't even close.
2/3 of the anime fans on this planet live in Asia, which means that Asia has a higher number of fans and sales than the rest of the world combined (mostly due to the huge number of fans and sales in Japan and China). Why do all the anime and manga website list Naruto as #1 and not One Piece? Those popularity lists are for the countries that are outside of Asia ONLY. The anime fans that live outside of Asia go on English-speaking websites. But the anime fans that live in Asia go on anime websites where everyone speaks Japanese and Chinese only. When it comes to anime and manga, Asia and the rest of the world completely ignore each other. People that live outside of Asia go on their OWN anime sites and completely ignore the animes sites that people in Asia go on (they ignore those sites because they are not in English but in Chinese and Japanese). And people from Asia do the same thing to them. They barely ever go on the same anime/manga websites that the rest of the world goes on. That is why Asia and all of the other countries in the world are like 2 separate universes when it comes to anime/manga. And this is proven by the fact that there are barely any anime fans from Japan and Asia on the English-speaking anime sites.
As of this month, One Piece sold 200 million copies in JAPAN ALONE SO FAR.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2010-10-21/one-piece-manga-has-200-million-books-in-print
Dragon Ball is said to be the best selling manga of all time worldwide with 300 million copies sold. This means One Piece is #2 at the moment in worldwide sales. If you add all of the copies One Piece sold in China and the rest of Asia (where manga is just as popular as in Japan), then this means One Piece sold OVER 200 million copies worldwide and is close to topping DBZ(keep in mind that China has 1/3 of the world population and most of those people are anime fans like in Japan).
Let's take a look at Naruto. It only sold 110 million copies in Japan (Japan owns 50% of the worldwide share). That is very poor compared with the top mangas in Japan. And America is known to have the highest number of anime fans outside of the Asian continent. USA sold 8 or 9 million Naruto copies (Naruto is the best selling manga in USA). This means that all other countries outside of Asia sold LESS than that. In the end, Naruto is lucky if it barely reaches 200 million copies worldwide. One Piece has already reached that and is currently the #2 most popular anime/manga worldwide.
You Narutards are the saddest trolls in the world. You need to get over the fact that One Piece is more popular than Naruto, that One Piece sold more copies, that One Piece is more loved by Japan than Naruto, and that it is considered to be the next Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama himself, by Japan, and by most anime fans.