Guys suppose you were the editor of One Piece or Shueisha's marketing team, what would you do in order to attract new readers?
Or do you think One Piece pretty much reached all its potential readers? (Of course not literally but like it will only get very "few" new readers).
I ask because according to
this graph a lot of OP readers are in their 40s+, I remember back when I watched Film Gold in Tokyo the entire theater was full up to like the 9 pm screening and the entire screening was full of 20+ people (Which is understandable I guess because it was 9:00 pm, so maybe late for kids).. but the point I'm trying to make is I think that One Piece's editorial team really should focus on trying to get more young readers.
It's pretty obvious when you think about it but One Piece started in 1997 that's 23 (!) years ago, so if say you started reading back then at 10, you are now 33!
I was thinking that maybe a seasonal anime remake with great production values could maybe reach the 20-year-old audience but not the kids (Since these anime are broadcasted late), and besides I don't think any other studio but Toei can make an anime adaptation (As in they are the one studio with the rights to the One Piece anime property).
But if the same graph I posted still holds true and only 12% of One Piece are 1-18 years old (Which would be 10-28 years old right now, since that graph is from 2011, almost a decade old) then most One Piece readers are 30+ years old, which there's nothing wrong with that, quite the opposite as they can spend money on lots of merchandise, but there's still a huge chunk of people not reading OP.
That made me think that perhaps this is the people buying Kimetsu no Yaiba volumes like crazy lol, it would be nice to have some demographic charts about KnY readers.