That in Japan, unlike the West, Black Clover is very popular both as a manga and as an anime despite the fact that at least initially, the animated series in the West was seen as pure garbage.
I'm still mad about that. The Toriko OVA was amazing, which was also made by Ufotable, it really knew what made the manga great, although it did change the artstyle. However the kiddie anime still gave it a massive boost and backlog sales, it was selling crazy well in 2011, the year the anime started, making it into the top 5 of the year, did even better than KnY is doing now I think. But by next year without the backlog sales it dropped by 35%, although the volume sales did grow significantly, almost reaching 500k, but never breaking it. But by 2013 it was all downhill from that. I still think the anime timeslot gave it huge exposure, and that it was the change in the story's focus that turned off people, going from short crazy adventures to more dramatic plot and character focused arcs, even if those were excellent too. Too bad they didn't come back for the Gourmet World.
Eh. Vinland Saga is not really a good comparision since the last Vol 22 released before the anime started. So, let's wait for Vol 23.
How the hell is AoT's adaptation low budget? You're tripping g.
AoT was definitely low budget. It was just a very well done low budget adaptation. Half the scenes were just still shots and reused shots and they focused their budget on the more important stuff. Also, the art with the thick lines and color pallet they used for the anime helped to not make it seem low budget. The animators knew their job quite well. Whoever they had. There was also the report that the studio needed more animators.
Same. Although it has now surpassed my expectations given how its closing in on 600k.Also, I predicted 400-500k sales for KnY back in January, GOTTEM
If he wasn't downplaying black clover's pre-anime success, then he definitely was overstating kimetsu's. Either way, it was an inaccurate comparison. The point of my reply was to correct that.
I tried to word it so as not to come across as downplaying kimetsu's success because, as someone who's been following it since the early chapters, I'm very aware of it's reception pre-anime, which made me even more ecstatic to see the amazing reception after the anime. It's because of that awareness that I think it really would not have done as well with an average adaptation like black clover got. Like I said, there were several popular comments about people saying they got into it because of the ufotable name, or they chose to stick around through the admittedly standard early arcs because of the visuals and audio. If it had gotten an average adaptation with a generic shonen soundtrack, standard voice actors, and maybe a few standout visual shots, I doubt it would've gotten as big as it did.
Attack on Titan is a phenomenon on its own. The first episode was extremely gripping for casual and avid audiences with its visuals and thrilling story opener. It's honestly no surprise that it blew up with even non-anime watchers. Plus, the character designs weren't the standard anime designs that typically turned non-anime viewers away.
You can say the the anime helps push TG into mainstream (and probably responsible for about 23M copies sold)
Yeah. Wonder what was up with it..... Care to elaborate, @Buranchi?Finally it came back
It was a plan so we can't get to 1000 pages..
since kingdom have no more volume, and kny 17 coming out soon(next week), with the current gap and momentum, kny will overtake kingdom for oricon YTD next week. it need the backlogs to drop like a rock for that to not happen
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It only got bigger after the anime ended and volume 8 actually moved up after the movie announcement.
