On December 29, 2015, Fuji TV revealed on their show, “The Amazing People That The Elite Are Jealous Of” (一流が嫉妬したスゴい人), that One Piece author Eiichiro Oda is jealous of another manga series. The series in question, Your Lie in April (四月は君の嘘) by Naoshi Arakawa, struck Oda with awe for a number of reasons as discussed in our previous post. The show certainly did not exaggerate when naming Oda among the “elites”; Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is the best-selling manga series ever with close to 400 million copies printed worldwide, earning him a Guinness World Record in 2015. Naturally, it didn’t take long before Oda’s influence made an explosive, public effect on Your Lie in April. The series sold out in bookstores across Japan by the end of 2015, a mere few days after the show aired, and reprints were promptly announced to meet this sudden wave of demand.

Since Fuji TV’s show aired during the afternoon (11:55AM to 12:55PM) on December 29, viewers of the show were already running to bookstores on the same day to purchase their copies of Your Lie in April. However, since most of the volumes went on sale years ago (Volume 1 hit the shelves back in September 2011), it didn’t take long before bookstores across Japan ran out of stock of this newly coveted series.

Immediately after the show aired, the title of the series (四月は君の嘘) also trended on Twitter, and bookstore employees were left curious as to why customers of a relatively older age group were suddenly purchasing the entire set of Your Lie in April manga volumes. The official Your Lie in April twitter account tweeted as early as January 5 that they were scheduling a reprint of all volumes. They further updated on January 13 that the reprints should hit the shelves in bookstores starting January 28.

SOURCE: hon-hikidashi.jp