That's good. One Piece's Dressrosa arc was almost 100 chapters long and went on for over 2 1/2 years. And this whole arc was just 1 day in the world of One Piece.
Yeah the anime handled it poorly plus it was animated in like 120 episodes...Bones isn't like Toei thankfully
Yu-Gi-Oh! got a giant boost.
The backlog increasing is actually a pretty good reason to be optimistic IMO. After all, that shows how much people are trying to catch up to the series up to the anime's current point. Internet chatter in Japan has been mostly positive about the anime as far as I know. And they still don't know what's to come yet, and boy are these people gonna be in for one hell of a ride.
It depends on perspective really. If you expected it to be a million seller by now then you're going to be disappointed regardless but if you expected for it to grow even more pass its personal best then you were satisfied. The very fact that it got a second boost is something to take notice since that rarely happens and we have yet to see the effects take place yet (volume 14 was the best selling volume of the series thus far selling faster than all the previous volumes and as of now is still selling) so its not like it didn't have any effect just once again didn't meet up to the absurd expectations of some people.
how much did volume 14 sell?
It sold 550K before leaving the top 50. That's also not counting the OVA bundled edition.
It is already in its second season of anime and the boost for the second season was already without precedence so I don't think it will happen again, the sales will stabilize from now on and there will not be any big increases to make it as popular as Naruto once was, so it will ultimately never reach Naruto, that's what I meant with reaching its expiration date, it is already passing its prime.
Not gonna lie, as generic and annoying as this would be, I still think it'd be more exciting than any direction Tabata would take on his own. That's how little faith he has given me. Or rather, I've already resigned myself to the fact it's going to happen.
OkYes, the red part.
To be easier to translate and see: 尾田くんの場合は、もう本当に小さい時から「海賊」か「魔法使い」か「忍者」で漫画を描くって決めていたので、思い入れがハンパなく強いんですよ。
I remember a while back Horikoshi said MHA will be around 400 chapters in length. This was when he said the story is 20% done and if that is case then it'll definitely be 40+ volumes.
hasn't DB always been above OP regarding Bandai?
Really? Toriko also did an incredibly good job at creating a massive universe with endless possibilities without them seeming too far fetched. Obviously not to the level of OP, but there aren't many series that even do it as well as Toriko, and it was definitely one of its strengths. If anything, it's the increase in pace that came with the Another arc (probably Shimabu being told to wrap it up) that made the Toriko universe seem smaller than it actually was and brought about all the sudden insane scale shifts. We didn't even get to see the adventures of the characters that explored the other 50-75% of the Gourmet World. In regards to the potential Space arc though, I think it would have been much of the same regardless.
He never said 400+ chapters. He said 20% and ppl did the math.
It happened last year. It had 80 chapters at the time and here it is
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Just realized that he didn't....my bad.