>>281979152
Lolno. They're not being dismissed because of Wikipedia, they're being critiqued BECAUZS Shueisha reused the same 260M stat from 2002 repeatedly even after publishing 350M numbers in their own publications and they stopped updating Dragon Ball's official total, despite third-party sources (Oricon, Nikkei, Fuji TV, Sankei, etc) doing so.

Hell, they submitted One Piece for Guinness, while never submitting DB, even though it had already passed the threshold. This isn't about being anti-Shueisha or whatever, it's about recognizing when a publisher is manipulating which stats to surface based on what product they're pushing. Shueisha even submitted One Piece in Guinness in 2014 for "most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author" when Dragon Ball sold more at the time.

Exhibition #5: The Guinness World Record PR Stunt
Source: Guinness Record announcement (2015)
Claim: One Piece was recognized for "Most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author"
Total: 320,866,000 copies
As of: December 2014

BUT, here's the kicker: Dragon Ball was already confirmed at 350M+ copies in 2008. That's six years earlier than One Piece's 320M. But Dragon Ball was not even mentioned in Guinness, even though it had already crushed that number.

The record is only for 'same comic book series by a single author", meaning Dragon Ball qualified 100% (Toriyama is the sole author of the original 42 volumes). So why wasn't Dragon Ball ever submitted or entered into the record?
>>281551244
Kiss ass, faggot.