Luffy is still just 19 afaik, so not an adult. Denji is like 16-17, so also not an adult. Hinata only became one very recently.
Are they? There's something I want to bring up. I feel like TOCs are less and less important for determine the success of a series and my interest in them has greatly declined the past year. I wonder what changed in the ranking system but it doesn't feel accurate anymore. Sales seems to be a better measure now. What do you think?
Most of Dr. Stone cast are over 3700 year old
Weren't sales always a more accurate measure of success ?
Meanwhile, Moriking is only 1-day old if I recall.
Isn't that because we got too many not really established series atm? A lot of the older established series finish and are replaced by not ranked series who when they rank have even more not ranked series to account for. In a couple months the TOC will be more reliable to guess success once we are to a lesser amount of new series per year than we are currently at in 2020. Like isn't 2020 at least top5 with most new series debuting in WSJ?
I always felt as if sales were more important. The way I see things, TOC is an indicator of what Shueisha wants to promote that week. This matters more for new series, since usually, if Shueisha wants to promote them more, that that should mean it's doing well with readers. However, if you're more established, the rankings don't matter as you already have an established audience that will read your series no matter where it's placed. To compound upon this, rankings are relative, and considering there's no many newbies out, it's possible that a series could rank high - mostly because it's simply doing better than other newbies.
Just because you liked them doesn't mean they weren't cancelled.
well, being placed bottom could be a subtle hint for mangaka to hurry up and finish it, hence a shit-ton of rush ending
I only read KHR
but I thought it ended where she wanted it to end, and based on her manga output since then, I think she definitely did want to end it there and take it easy with her family.
I've also read KhR.I only read KHR
I was only counting serious manga.
Even though this is technically true, it's a catch-all kind of argument. People refer to general reception and acclaim.
I'd say sales still don't matter as much as the toc while running. Mashle got good toc positions and its' volume sold well. Yaiba had great toc positions and has reached higher peaks than all the manga of the previous era.
Yaiba was a mid-toc series on average before the anime though iirc.
These series were canceled long ago. Does the same rule still applies? I don't think editors let successful series sit at the bottom anymore. Black Clover and Act-Age seem to be frequently bouncing around bottom and high placements, for instance.
My impression nowadays is that they have a "always top" and "always bottom" list and everything that is in-between they manipulate freely based on a rotation. So they probably work with an internal tiered system.