All I see is a an old small poll on which sports manga people liked the best along with the age bracket and male/feamale reader percentage, no where does it say it won best sports manga in japan, why are we stil linking random twitter accounts in here?
Man just have fun with the newspaper poll, and give over on the twitter hate. Don’t be a bore.
Its not just manga though. Its sports series of any medium with School Wars (Drama) at 12th place, Rocky (Movie) at 13th place, Water Boys (Movie) at 18th place & Rikuo (Novel) at 20th place being in the Top 20. But having manga dominating the Top 20 just shows how much sports manga have an impact on people if done well.
Hn, didn't realize that.
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I mean, Star of the Giants is well over 50 years old.
Yeah, I know, but there are series that are 30 or 35 years old with some young people liking it, there could be a few people. Not even people in their thirties care. Just kinda interesting.
I'd say the effect is that it's like Kinnikuman, it's considered a classic which molded the genre into what it is now, but it's so rough and unrefined that very few modern readers would have an interest in it. Of course, I know literally nothing about Star of the Giants, so I could be talking out of my ass there.
Early Kinnikuman was rough but it improves a lot with ultimate muscle.
Well, I definitely am, I feel like there was still so much potential for the series to go to, and i was actually enjoying the Blue arc until it started to get rushed, Asahi and the Handling of Erina were the only actual issues, everything else was great, it'll definitely be missed in the magazine for me (vast minority speaking here).
I mean, that's technically correct, but Kinnikuman still isn't something that would come off as appealing to modern readers. The start is basically unreadable, the artstyle is very off-putting, the protagonist acts nothing like a traditional Jump protagonist and there is very little in the way of logic or cohesion to what happens. Now, this isn't me shitting on the manga, but I am saying it's unlikely modern readers could take to it.
Sorry, none of us here have a time machine. Probably.
I mean, aside from having the same name, Jump+ is pretty different since it has a different focus compared to WSJ, it has varied schedules as it's digital and even different editors so it's not like they're the same thing.
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I don't remember any case of manga on Jump made by people below 20 yo. What are you talking about?
I feel like SPY X FAMILY is a series that could realistically be in WSJ. Whether or not it would be successful, idk. But I could see it being serialized
I don't know numbers for overall market but France, China and South korea are the biggest from what I remember.
