Facts? Then show me your proofs. If you have them, I will be gladly listen to you.
Good lord. I'm using the words fact in a way that's like basically saying "I agree with you 100%" I don't mean he is literally telling facts.
That's true for the west since manga and comics in general aren't that big (France being a exception and US in the 90s for superhero comics), but I wouldn't say that to japan. Anime of course will help it with a boost, after all, it's one of the parts of a media mix that all companies do since ever, much like manga adaptations for anime and LN. But manga in itself is already really big in JP even without anime due to the culture of reading, even more now that there's digital buying, digital magazines on apps/websites, amateur manga on pixiv and twitter, etc. Unlike here where only when anime exists that people know things, in JP a ton of series already have a sizeable public before the adaptation because the media mix even before the anime is already reaching them.
Ufotable's adaptation means nothing if the source is shitty. The most important thing for any adaptation is to have a good source material. There's no point in investing time and money into something that's clearly bad...unless that's what the general appeal tends to be.
I personally dont believe Black Clover would explode like Kimetsu.
Of course i don't think it would explode like Yaiba, but the entire point is that despite the very bad production in the beginning it was able to rise from 150k to over 300k, so the manga is already on a league above FF and Stone.
I don't think you watched Black Clover, at least more than 3 episodes, average production? it would be great if it was the case kkkkk
Toriko definitely is a valid counter to this, though. Not to say Toriko didn't get a big boost, but I really do feel a well-done adaptation in the same vein as Ufotable, would have made it go way higher.
The irony of the Jump Festa OVA being by Ufotable, imagine what could have been for Toriko...
I'd dispute that. Toriko's appeal became very limited as time went on and readers taste changed. Even if the anime were adequate, it likely still fall off due to the weak character writing and extremely retro art-style.
I don't even think he watched Black Clover now. Every time I check a few clips, if it isn't some major fight there is seriously something going wrong in the scenes for example the contestant off model faces. Everything just looks jarring all the time. The music is terrible too and that really doesn't help.
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Bruh, Ufotable adapted the first chapter of Toriko and it's 1000000x better than anything toei did with it.
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Man said weak character writing...
Yeah... "start from the newest chapter" is about all you'll be able to do, since they only posted chapter 1-3 and then 77. There isn't even the usual spoiler warning in between. Which is unfortunate, because chapter 77 is a semi-sequel that spoils basically everything the first chapters set up.
I haven't read twin star in years. I don't think I can ever catch up now. It's too long.
I was talking more about the beginning (first 50/60 episodes) where it was truly terrible, by now the adaptation is what i would call "average" with some good or great sequences but it's really stepped up from the beginning, still could be so much better.
This is a good point, but also, the main thing that stood out about Toriko was the world building.