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In March 2026, One Piece hit 600 million copies sold, so creator Eiichiro Oda wrote the series' true secret on paper, tore it in half, ran the top half in newspapers, and sank the answer half—sealed in a chest—651 meters into the sea, to be raised only when the story ends.
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