Making a video where you clarify that OP is actually still selling more than Kimetsu VoV at this point just comes off weird since we now know that's not true anymore. I mean, making a video called "situation of jump in 2020" on feb 22 which is actually stuck at nov 22 is just weird. This video is 3 months late.
I’d imagine the vid is slightly out of date. Was probably putting this together for weeks
Isekai exist and people eat it as junkfood.
One piece proofed itself already being that high established, there will always be on lucky winner winning the lottery. It doesnt hurt OP, its always about the journey not 7/24 slaying ur enemies to find the upperlord
Yeah, I thought he would mention how KnY is doing in 2020.
What is that thing? The Jump RED and Jump BLUE thing?? It was like an app right?? I ask because it has Yoh Asakura on it... Which idk just seems weird
His takes on the newer series are pretty much spot on, there's not a thing I disagree with. Honestly, the first time I heard AA was a manga about acting in Jump it did feel out of place to me, however, the more I read it, the more I feel like it fits just right. Crossing fingers for JJK to completely blow up. Also, fully expecting it to sell WAY more than BC this year with JJK's backlog already hitting and BC having no backlog sales whatsoever. I wonder if there's a chance CSM might sell as much as BC at the end of the year with sales increasing and the backlog selling considerably. Also, the part where he said OP was still outselling KNY in volume sells lol, it shows he didn't actually look up current sales. Deniers will watch this video and still use the argument that KNY only outsold OP because of the backlog. Wait until half-year sales hit. The video doesn't seem very outdated though, since he mentioned UxU, Mashle and GOTW. Glad he mentioned and praised CSM.
His opinion about drstone was weirdly expressed. I understand that the production wasnt that great from the source material, (picking boichis art Is already hard to do, let alone consistent animation in todays era). It still did way better than people and fans thought it would be. It got one of the most massive attention and following which already makes me happy
That's not really an excuse, though. Adding in a small piece clarifying that the situation has changed in 2020 (which is what the video is supposed to be about anyways) wouldn't have taken that long, plus he mentions GotW in there too so it can't be that old, meaning he should have been aware of what was going on right now in 2020. By the time that picture of GotW even came out Kimetsu had already passed his 2019 sales.
Even assuming that's the case, it's only a matter of time before KnY shatters all of OP's records, except for lifetime sales.
I mean, it's still got quite a bit to go before breaking the most sold volume in a single oricon year, which is about 3.3 mln IIRC, so that might still hold up.
If you want to be pedantic about it, it was 5-and-a-half months. I was talking about the period between mid-June (when I joined) until late November (when the 2019 topic closed). Only 2 new series launched in that period (not counting the spin-off), which is very little considering they usually launch 11-12 series a year.
A lot of it depends on the post-movie performance, admittedly. I can't say for absolute certain it will, but I'm assuming that the craziness will continue.
25 mins of my life that I'm never getting back, that video was a whole lot of nothing imo, he barley even talked about the series and the current state of their manga outside of Chainsaw Man (his description for Act-Age was just terrible), the video should've just been called "Top 10 selling WSJ manga of 2019", not to mention the ending with Kimetsu Vs OP used severely outdated info "One Piece is still doubling Kimetsu's per volume sales and is still King" and it's not like he had the video 100% ready before KnY overtook OP, considering he used panels from chapters that released 2-3 weeks ago
We discussed that previously, I believe. It's possible. It's one of those genres people didn't know they wanted, so now they're wanting more of it.