In first look this seems be amazing, but the sales rapidly falling down the past years with make me worry about the endphase of the manga if more breaks coming up and the sales keep going down like this...
As compare, here the sales of One Piece past years:
Since 2008 we always got insane large of volume sales each year, the past years it fall more and more below, last year One Piece sold 7.197.000 with is still amazing.
But this year only 5.1M is pretty mild if we count it for One piece standarts...
Usually One Piece sales are around 6-10mio each year..
It is very depressing and shows One Piece's attitude. Shouldn't live action bring in more fans? At least as far as sales are concerned, you hardly see any of that. And the fear I had is confirmed that more One Piece readers are distancing themselves from the manga. And I think that's a shame. I mean, the anime is doing well, isn't it? We didn't actually have a bad arc with Egghead. The sales make you think and the numbers are going down more and more, which is not good.
I hope next year things will calm down, but these numbers are really not a good sign.
Since the sales from this year are below of these from 2008, means since 16 years One Piece sales became lower than these of 2008...
Hope Oda will recover and find his strength to end this manga without rushing things.