You Can Now Own the Magazine Where One Piece Began - via a Solana Token

Phygitals sealed and tokenized the 1997 magazine where One Piece began. Solana promoted the launch on Friday, and the first tokenized One Piece manga now trades onchain.

The issue carries the main characters' debut appearance, which arrived before the first collected volume reached shops. Grading firms count only 118 copies worldwide.

Why the Tokenized One Piece Manga Is So Scarce

The manga One Piece, written by Eiichiro Oda, was initially published in the Shonen Jump magazine No. 34 of 1997. Readers treated the magazine as cheap, throwaway newsprint. Most copies, therefore, went straight to the bin.

Almost nobody expected a record. One Piece passed 600 million published copies worldwide in March. The publisher Shueisha announced the milestone on the jacket band of volume 114.

Scarcity then attracted forgers. Reprints and outright fakes of the issue flood resale sites, and an official 2017 reprint edition adds more confusion. Dealers now treat authentication as the main hurdle for buyers.

Authentication carries real money. Reference guides put ungraded first prints in the low hundreds, while graded slabs trade in a separate market. Heritage Auctions ran a Beckett-graded copy of the issue in March. Graders slab originals and reprints separately, which remains the only dependable tell.

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