I've already started my countdown. It will be fun in 12 hours or so.
Even so, just because KnY is beating it now the fact that it held the mantle of top selling manga for so long, and held so many records for so long won't change. KnY isn't a more important series than OP in terms of legacy, not for jump and not for the industry, at the very least not at this point in time. I think regardless of what fanbase you belong to we can all agree to this.
Then you're talking about fans that don't interact with online communities, which is extremely small.
That brings to mind an interesting thought, if the top series now do end up leaving a strong legacy and being very influential, what parts of the series will people be influenced by?
In regards to MHA, the inspiration is so heavily based on American Comics, wouldn't something inspired by MHA be better off taking inspiration from American Comics as well?
I think casual fans are majority. For example, I doubt majority people follow every movie or tv shows they watch online, people just watch and move on.
Manga/anime isn't as mainstream as TV and movies in the West, though.
In general I agree with you and more when I have read you on occasion. But you have to take into account that DS is simply not more important than One Piece because historically it is only 4 years old. A manga / anime, no matter how boom it may be at any given moment, paradoxically it is difficult for everyone to know it so soon. And despite that great disadvantage, Demon Slayer with just 3 years (2019) broke a few records. And this without speaking of this year.
Which is why I said "at this point in time". In the future? Who knows. The future is full of surprises, and Kimetsu is living proof of that.
I wouldn't say we can all agree about the legacy thing. What a series' "legacy" is, is something that's difficult to pin down. Especially without the benefit of hindsight. For as big as One Piece is, I'm not sure it has that much of a legacy. A lot of Jump's newer series seem to mostly draw their inspiration from Naruto, Bleach, or Hunter x Hunter. There doesn't seem to be much that's patterning themselves after One Piece or Luffy or other characters. In fairness I'm not sure if that's truly on the mangaka, or if Jump's editors are discouraging One Piece imitators. Still, One Piece doesn't seem to have much trying to follow in it's footsteps so to speak. Similarly I'm not seeing how One Piece changed any business practices at Jump. To my knowledge it hasn't caused them to be more accepting of a genre they didn't do much with before, or change how they approach deciding what series to axe and what to keep. At most Oda's health troubles may have encouraged them to be more lenient with authors who are having health issues that impact their ability to meet deadlines, but that's far from certain.
The one who is getting all his assistants serialized in Jump last 2 years has been Tabata hasn't he?
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Do you think My Hero Academia will also join that legacy list you say?
I really loved your point of view. From a distant but logical perspective, in my opinion. I had never really stopped to think about that fact, although OP is different in many ways, it really is true that you do not see any manga that follows the same line of the best-selling manga in history. And clearly I'm not talking about plagiarizing, I'm talking about similarities.
I would say that it is quietly.
I'm hesitant to say this since I'm not too confidant with the comparison personally, but maybe Dr. STONE? At least in the way that it starts out as a relatively simple journey that gets exponentially more vast and complex as time goes on (especially with recent developments, lol).
I feel like it was easier for later works to be to influence by those series because they mainly had good spins on existing tropes. Whereas with manga like one piece or even HXH it comes off too copycatty