One Piece in Finland

One Piece in Finland
In Finland One Piece has been out in manga form since 2005. It is published by Sangatsu Manga which is a company in Bonnier group. When One Piece manga first came out in Finland, new volumes hit the stores once a month - last Friday of every month. Later when volumes were closing Japanese release they started to bring a now volume out 6 times a year. Latest volume in July 2010 is 52. volume. There hasn't yet been One Piece anime out in Finland in any form at the moment.

One Piece is second most selling manga in Finland (first being Dragon Ball, which is also published by Sangatsu Manga), but One Piece is catching up fast with help of re-releases of the earlier volumes.

One Piece is translated straight from Japan to Finnish by Antti Valkama, but with earlier episodes he was assisted by Heikki Valkama. Translations are said to be faithful to original release, and by the request of readers the have decided to keep original sound effects with translations to finnish in small font above them.