Mag Talk Weekly Shonen Jump [2018] - Discussion and TOC Talk

[De La Croissant]

Slam Dunk precedes all of them and made sports series an even bigger thing but PoT helped pave the way for the other three series in that it was a start of "Bishounen Jump".

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[Newkerzy]

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I was just about to mention this...

 

[DyanSon]

You know, to debut in the same month of the best-selling manga of all time .....

--- Double Post Merged, Mar 28, 2018, Original Post Date: Mar 28, 2018 ---

Rather it is not strange that the cover of volume 18 of My Hero has not yet come out?

Well that's pretty stupid reason.

 

[Franz]

By now all the manga sell less than in the past due to digital sales.

 

[iceemperor]

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That's why I said an even bigger thing. Tsubasa is/was huge back then but Slam Dunk is monstrous. There are people that consider it as a sort of "national treasure" of Japan.

 

[SharkBait]

This same logic can be used for any series experiencing a downward trend then?

yes, caution must be exercised for making a conclusion based on declines on the print volume charts.

 

[De La Croissant]

By now all the manga sell less than in the past

Something that people always tend to forget.

 

[Franz]

That's why I said an even bigger thing. Tsubasa is/was huge back then but Slam Dunk is monstrous. There are people that consider it as a sort of "national treasure" of Japan.

In comparison I would say that Tsubasa is slightly higher in terms of impact ...

 

[Luca11]

That's why I said an even bigger thing. Tsubasa is/was huge back then but Slam Dunk is monstrous. There are people that consider it as a sort of "national treasure" of Japan.

But Tsubasa is the one chosen along with Doraemon and Hello Kitty to feature in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 teaser.

 

[SharkBait]

Unless you've got something to back that up, it's nothing but random numbers.

Its not a random number, its fact. RxL sales number shows that 60% of its total volume sales came from digital sources (v1-3 in dec), which strongly suggests and highly implies that shonen jump manga see 60% of their sales from digital sources.

 

[TyVip]

Tsubasa is HUGE outside of Japan.

You have professional soccer players talk about it on the news.

 

[Mammo]

pretty weird situation in Jump this week

one of the New World awards winners forgot to write his name on his oneshot and now they're looking for him

 

[ruggia]

But Tsubasa is the one chosen along with Doraemon and Hello Kitty to feature in the Tokyo Olympics 2020 teaser.

I think that's more to do with Inoue imposing a tight control of Slam Dunk IP, given how he regretted past merchandising of Slam Dunk.

 

[iceemperor]

Kochikame jokes are the theme of the coming "Wednesday's Downtown" special on 4/11.

This program is pretty big in Japan so once again we see how influential Kochikame is. Here is a preview image:

 

[MangAniMY]

pretty weird situation in Jump this week

one of the New World awards winners forgot to write his name on his oneshot and now they're looking for him

lol wut, it must be good if they are still letting the person win something. (I would assume it would normally void the entrye

 

[Koi Kage]

60% of BLack clover sales are digital.

Its not a random number, its fact. RxL sales number shows that 60% of its total volume sales came from digital sources (v1-3 in dec), which strongly suggests and highly implies that shonen jump manga see 60% of their sales from digital sources.

If that number is accurate then Black Clovers "true" volume 15 sales around 391,416, thats assuming that digital sales have the same time table as physical sales. As a comparison to the 60% rule for digital sales MHA would be around 865,206 so Black clover 's current volume is doing about half of MHA's current volume sales with just 1 season compared to MHA 2 seasons. I'm in no way implying these numbers are correct or that the 60% applies to all series I'm just using the "60% possible sales" not accounted for in data we have access to.

 

[Mankichi Togawa]

Here in Spain Slam Dunk was popular, but the title which was monstruos was Captain Tsubasa, known here as Oliver and Benji. Everybody watched the anime series for decades.

I'd say here in Spain, Captain Tsubasa is biggest Jump hit after only Dragon Ball.

My top 10 of Jump titles in Spain by popularity would be Dragon Ball > Captain Tsubasa > Saint Seiya > Yu-Gi-Oh > One Piece > Death Note > Naruto > JoJo > Shaman King > Kenshin or Yu Yu Hakusho

 

[101nemesis]

Its not a random number, its fact. RxL sales number shows that 60% of its total volume sales came from digital sources (v1-3 in dec), which strongly suggests and highly implies that shonen jump manga see 60% of their sales from digital sources.

Wait, where did you get 60% from?
Print numbers of RxL in December was at 460k. Print, not sales. It's safe to assume that each volume gets a physical print number of anywhere between 100k to 120k given how it usually sells around 70k-80k before leaving the charts. Lets take the midway ie 110k for first three volumes meaning 330k was the physical print number from the total 460k. That implies only around 25-30% (ie. 130k) were digital. NOT 60%. It's not a bad amount but definitely nowhere near the over exaggerated 60%.

 

[SharkBait]

Print numbers of RxL in December was at 460k. Print, not sales.

That number had digital sales included. https://mangahelpers.com/forum/posts/4658666/

 

[101nemesis]

That number had digital sales included. https://mangahelpers.com/forum/posts/4658666/

Doesn't change the fact that 60% is an over exaggerated number. 30% at best is realistic. Everything else in my argument still stands.