KNY has overtaken Bleach, POT obviously but that does not mean Bleach or POT were not incredible either.Out of the titles you mentioned only YYH, Slam Dunk, One Piece
Not even Rurouni Kenshin or HxH or... heck, even Naruto were on the level KnY is on right now (40million with 19 volumes which would put it slightly higher than 2mill pee volume, and even though the 40 million figure was probably across everything KnY related -aka the novels and other books- it will get to 2 million sold per volume.
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KnY is pretty much unprecedented in how it exploded like this, sure we have the Dr.Slump example of the boost from when it got the anime, and also the One Piece 2011 boost, but it also isn't comparable because even though it got a huge boost.. it just wasn't KnY 15x levels of boost. (I'm guessing it sold around 100,000-120,000 pre-anime? And now it's at almost 2mill, so a 15x boost in sales basically out of nowhere.)
I wish we had sale data for Yu Yu Hakusho because I think it's pretty similar
Also Gintama isn't the first comedy to sell that good, Dr.Slump and Kochikame (in its prime, because it must have sold like hot cake back then to achieve the sales it has today. ) probably sold more than Gintama ever did per volume.
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I think a lot of people is just looking at total KnY sales (currently 40 million as of Feb 7th 2020) and those are impressive BUT when you realize that it achieved 2 million sales per volume right now (not years after it finished, thus selling millions in backlog thru the years, like most other manga data we have) that's way way waaaay more impressive because as I said it puts it higher than series like HxH and Naruto in per volume sales, in fact only DB, OP and Slam Dunk beat KnY in per volume sales. Maybe YYH slightly beat KnY sales too.
Now, what do Slam Dunk, Yu Yu hakusho and Dragon Ball all have in common? They all are from WSJ's golden age.
One Piece is an outlier, the best selling manga in history.
So KnY is selling at those levels (Lower than OP, DB and SD, higher-ish than YYH).
At this rate SxF might break one million per volume before it gets an anime in two years. xD
Fingers crossed for SxF.
Not lifetime. I doubt it'll beat out Bleach's lifetime sales, honestly.
It wouldn't have made a difference also this is just a reiteration of what was said in the first statement 4 days ago. This only makes Shuiesha looks good because to everyone else Korean/China not only overreacted over a misconception but they also pirated their work so that just makes it even worse
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In terms of animated or live action? Animated it's One Piece Z with 6.8 billion yen, live action it's Gintama 2. In terms of overall revenue Broly had a total gross of 13 billion yen for theaters (4 billion yen) and home release add on top of it's worldwide gross of $125 million.
You could mistake her for Ochako, of all people.
The official translation of the name when spelled out was Maruta, right (looking through M+)? Which refers to the WW2 test subject incident.
志賀丸太（Shiga Maruta) in the correct context means "A round and fat man who wishes people's good future. Its matching "two-faced" evil scientist which in turn matches the kana in Maruta’s name backward you get “taruma” (タルマ) “ta” and “da” have similar phonetic symbols in the Japanese language so when changed you get “Daruma” (ダルマ) his pseudonymous first name and a daruma is an object of adepicting a bearded man that is known for giving good luck.
This can easily be disproved because no character in MHA has a direct meaning like 志賀丸太（Shiga Maruta）or else you're going to end up stuff like "Green Valley" they tend to make sense upon broken up individually which adds a another layer as a synopsis of the character.
When you have to resort to death threats over a misconception of a character in s children's comic book then yeah it's an overreaction no matter how you slice it.
Of course it does. Neither China or Korea look good in this situation since China is well known for cancelling anything that the government doesn't deem ethical to their standards like Winnie the Pooh and the outrage came about because Korea pirated the chapter.
It's already been shown that the manga market share in Japan is much smaller than America and France and two of Jump's biggest titles, Assassination Classroom and Death Note were banned in China the latter of which is still going strong for over 15 years.
This kind of logic is the reason why manga licensing got such a bad rep from the 80s to early 00s and how creators outright refused to have their works published in America because they were afraid that they would have ruined the author's intent.
Yeah he's actually admitted that it's far too casual since the beginning of the manga which makes this controversy even more silly.
Who can miss such classics like Wonderweiss, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, and Cirucci Sanderwicci.
Again, lifetime sales are one thing, but when you go by "sold by volume" only 4 WSJ titles (And I can only assume a very, very small amount of manga in the history of manga) have sold more than Kimetsu No Yaiba, those 4 titles being Dragon Ball, One Piece and Slam Dunk and maybe Yu Yu Hakusho.
I mean, he literally has a character with iron (tetsu) power, whose name is "Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu" using four different Kanji that can somehow be read as "tetsu". So, in actuality, he is brilliant
Hate to spoil the joke, but FGO doesn't do crossover promos. That's GBF's ballhouse.Also it's Jump Force who cares.
Surprised there isn't a mobage announcement or even a collaboration. If BC can get a PS4 game a few months after it's anime Kimetsu can at least get a gatcha promo with FGO.