I'd say that speaks to the "versatility" of his style, I guess?
Like I mentioned before, that Fate tribute art a while ago makes me think a Western Fantasy might be more suited to Gotouge's style.
I agree that they’ll most likely return with something else. The person I was replying to said “they’d be stupid not to return after having a huge hit”.
I feel bad for Kawashita, literally being a one hit wonder and all...Lilim Kiss and Anedoki did not deserve to get killed like that. But wasn't Anedoki a modest success in terms of sales? What was with that axe?
I feel like if Gotouge comes back with another series at Jump, they may follow the path of Obata and Ohba with Death Note and Bakuman, the first series will be a massive hit while the second will be a success in its own right but wont be at its predecessor's level
Sales numbers themselves really don't seem all that important to WSJ, what matters is growth and weekly popularity. They'd be more likely to keep a series that sells 10k volume 1 then 15k v2 and gets lots of favourite votes every week, than a series that sells 30k v1 then 25k v2 and rarely gets weekly toc votes.
I highly doubt they’ll retire; however if they chose to retire, the manga industry is extremely demanding. Someone only wanting to do one series and being out doesn’t necessarily mean they’re only in it for the money(and even if they were only in it for the money, big whoop, that’s their business. Plus, someone who only entered the industry for money is probably the one that wouldn’t retire after one series).
Then how would you explain a series like Yuuna, where the ToC rankings are low and the physical sales of the volumes have declined a fair amount, yet it's still alive?
Yuuna's an established series that's past its peak, which is different. It's not a new series they hope will grow into a big hit (and will cancel if they see little potential), it already grew into a successful manga and got an anime, then dropped off later. Like Bleach, Toriko, Beelzebub, Nura, etc., sure it's not as popular as it was before but it's still an established part of the magazine.
I don't know why you're discarding the pressure of writing a followup to what is now going to be known as one of the absolute biggest hits in the history of the industry; regardless of what she puts out next it is inevitably going to be negatively compared from an achievement standpoint to Kimetsu, even if her next series is a success it's just impossible for a single author to get another hit of this scale. If it does somehow happen, we might as well just put her down as the most successful mangaka of all time because that would be un-freaking-believable, there have been artists with multiple big hits but come on, back-to-back 3+mln seller?
I'm so late since I changed my new phone well then here is my thoughts on Viz logo. As a Computer Graphic designer, the logo did stood out and it is good design on it's own if that was different comic or Manga but their decision making is questionable. I don't see the fault of artist if he didn't knew behind the context or he thinks it is was meant for western market just like superhero comic. It really depends the broad knowledge of an artist.
Well, from what I could gather from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Ninku, it appears that the original series already had month-long breaks, because, as Kiriyama later explained, he was unable to properly draw other martial arts that he had less knowledge about, he struggled with that, apparently. I guess after struggling with the serialization for two years and leaving his series abandoned, I guess he just felt unable to do anything new in the manga industry.
I meannnn..
