Re: Weekly Shonen Jump [2011] - Discussion and TOC Talk - Part 2
Negative Syndicate wrote:
Yes, D.Gray-man is currently second highest selling series in SQ. However, I wonder if Shin Prince of Tennis can take that place by boost from its anime.
Well.. I think it will get a boost.
IMO its.. kinda weird how mangas lose lots of readers when they change magazines, I mean D Gray changing to SQ and losing readers and now Prince of Tennis which basically changed magazine to SQ and has lost some (lots) of readers, although To Love Ru has retained its readers, they are the most deboted, for ecchiness!! Correct me if I am wrong.
Asclepius wrote:@perroloco - Lenalee's hair is long again. But we are at volume 22, a long way to catch up and... you have to survive chapter 187 and the Kanda arc.
! Lenalee!!
But I don't think I will go through the hassle of buying the volumes (Or reading Edited Mangas, for that matter..) because I didn't drop the manga because of Lenalee's hairdo change (LOL, maybe my earlier post suggested otherwise) I stopped reading it because quite frankly I just couldn't get into the story.. The battles were dull (IMO) and to tell the truth I couldn't understand the drawings, I literally COULDN'T undestand what was going on in some battles, maybe because of Hoshino's style.. Too sophistacated for my tastes maybe.
Bomber D Ruffi wrote:
I disagree. If you mean popularity wise, no way. I love Gintama, but it will never EVER be what Kochi kame is. If you mean length wise, that too is a negatory. Gintama's got maybe a year or two left before it ends. Recent events in the manga seem to indicate that Sorachi's ready to start wrapping things up.
I agree with you, Gintama should end. It should have already ended if we take in account what Sorachi had said back when Gintama was starting, but it hasn't. I said it could very well be, its not unheard of manga stories resolving their plot and continuing, a recent example being BLEACH. And while Gintama isn't episodic like Kochikame it could very well continue many, many years.
As for Kochikame's "popularity", well It doesn´t sell as explosive as other JUMP titles, it must be a slow but steady seller since it has sold a lot of volumes (If wikipedia is to trust Kochi has 176 volumes and has sold 135,000,000 copies which is 767,045 average per volume) yet whenever I see the first week sales of its volumes it sells around 50,000, but as I say it must be a steady seller to reach those many millions. (Maybe the 135,000,000 is counting the Kamedas and stuff like that?)
Also, checking a
2005 post it had 143 published volumes and 130,000,000 copies sold, this means that in 6 and a half years and 33 volumes later it has "only" sold 5,000,000 more volumes (And we should take in account that there were other 143 volumes being sold, obviously they wouldn´t sell as much as newer volumes, but they should sell little amounts). And also the average was 909,090 per volume.
With those facts I think is fair to say Kochikame is more a national culture icon of sorts than a big seller, its more for being the longest manga, being on print more time means it will sell more volumes with time, and as I said I think Gintama could very well manage to do that.
I have been wrting about Kochikame, I don´t exactly know how many volumes Gintama sells, but it should more or less sell like 1,000,000 per volume, apparently its first volume got to the 1,000,000 mark when the anime began (2007) and wikipedia (I know, super reliable) says that in december 2009, being 31 volumes long it had sold 29,000,000 (935,483 volumes average).
I would like to know why you think Gintama could never be as popular? Do you still think it couldn´t be as "popular" as Kochikame is if Gintama continued to run say another 20 years?
Zeromcd wrote:
I have a huge collection (800 volumes+) of the Shounen Jump Japanese Tankobon that I decided to go through and find out the amount of printings the volumes have had.
Is that post like the first and last printing each series has had?
Also I suggest you buy Ring Ni Kakero, from the same mangaka who did Saint Seiya, is cool.