This fall, the One Piece manga reached the print landmark of 300 million copies. To commemorate the milestone, a Sanoku ThanX campaign launched, in which a celebratory "Across Japan! OPJ47 Cruise" hit Japan's 47 prefectures, with special newspapers ads reflecting local geography, specialty or cultural heritage of each region.

 

Now completed, see the set of ads...

 

Hokkaido

 

Aomori

 

Akita

 

Iwate

 

Yamagata

 

Miyagi

 

Fukushima

 

Ibaraki

 

Saitama

 

Chiba

 

Tokyo

 

Kanagawa

 

Tochigi

 

Gunma

 

Yamanashi

 

Shizuoka

 

Nagano

 

Niigata

 

Aichi

 

Gifu

 

Fukui

 

Toyama

 

Ishikawa

 

Osaka

 

Kyoto

 

Shiga

 

Wakayama

 

Mie

 

Nara

 

Hyogo

 

Okayama

 

Hiroshima

 

 

Tottori

 

Shimane

 

Yamaguchi

Kagawa

Tokushima

Ehime

Kochi

Fukuoka

Saga

 

Nagasaki

 

Kumamoto

Oita

Miyazaki

Kagoshima

Okinawa

via Yaraon

 
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.