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>you had no source for your data
False, you piece of shit Kimetsutard, but I already expected your cope. I have multiple. Lmao. I cited:
>Fuji TV (2013)
>Sankei Shimbun (2008)
>Livedoor News (2009)
>Shueisha Weekly Playboy (2008)
>Oricon (2008)
>Nikkei Entertainment (2005)
>Bandai sales reports
>Wikipedia citations (updated with verifiable media sources)
>Asahi Shimbun (2005)
These are legitimate Japanese publications and primary sources not fan blogs, not rumors. So cry harder, you Spic. Dragon Ball is the highest selling manga per volume in history.
>pirated copies that you have no way to track
Wrong again, Spic. The Asahi Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper, specifically estimated 100 million pirated copies in China by 2005.
That's not "a guess", that's a researched journalistic figure, published in a major outlet and cited in Wikipedia. Same with South Korea (30 million). See picrel and cry, the exact publication date and page number from Asahi’s Osaka edition:
>朝日新聞（大阪版）2005年12月6日付朝刊 8面
No speculations here. That's data.
>You won't find a single source that tells you DB has officially sold 400 million
Partially true, but misleading. It's true that no source says "Dragon Ball has sold exactly 400M officially." But that's because Shueisha stopped reporting the real number after pushing 350M+ between 2008 and 2013, which is exactly my point. That doesn't mean the number is false, it means it's undercounted due to corporate opacity, and not refuted by any factual counter-source. Meanwhile, I provided clear evidence:
>Multiple media outlets confirm 350M by 2008-2013
>Sales continued post-2013 (Super, reprints, kanzenban, box sets, etc)
>Pirated + unofficial editions add another 130M+ (as sourced)
That reasonably puts Dragon Ball at 470M-500M+ globally, as Wikipedia itself says and they've actually reviewed the same sources.