SxF has no anime and is still pretty niche outside of hardcore jump circles. I doubt people would notice it even if KnY wasnt a thing, just as people didnt notice or know what AssClass was until anime and were surprised it was a strong seller from before the anime times.
Difference is that with current Manga reach outside Japan and with platforms like Manga+, SxF is a lot more popular and well known than AC was at this stage.
I dont know how we'd measure that, SxF isn't exactly lighting the mangaplus charts on fire, and view wise, just about everything seems way less viewed than people would expect there (nothing over 500K, really? Most in the 100K to 200K, really, for a site thats accessible worldwide? and series that are generation defining? way too low).
Manga's still relatively niche compared to anime. Honestly all Spy X Family needs is a Kaguya-tier anime for it to become more visible worldwide.
Is it a short series? Unless its a Boys Sports x Exorist manga, I dont know how a sports manga would be cannibalized by something thats going to be a short series in a separate genre.
I'm saying this because it's a manga by a famous author, even though it's short.
It doesn't matter if the manga is popular outside Japan. Ghostwriter needs to be popular in Japan if they want it to survive (after all, japanese readers buy more manga).
Beast Children was bad, Duoble Taisei started bad and got better later but probably too late and TSS was alright (although I found it really boring).
Yeah. That’s why I was debating with you a while ago why SxF has a higher peak for its anime boost. Aside from the premise, of course.
For a moment I was confused because I thought BC was Black Clover. I had the same confusions with Beast Children.
There is no way to compare eyeshield 21 and kuroko with Bleach and Naruto, they are two very different measures.
That's why I think that Ayakashi triangle should have a guaranteed 5 volumes, even if it has poor reception.
SxF might be more popular outside Japan simply because of the resources available to manga fans and how manga and anime are more mainstream now than it was in 2012 - 2013.
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Sure. You can't measure it.
As someone else pointed out, they let the romcom/ecchi artists do that usually. It doesn't have anything to do with how popular a series is. For example in 2010, they let Mizuki Kawashita, the mangaka of Ichigo 100% draw a Jump heroine color page like the one we're getting now. At that time, Kawashita's current manga in Jump was Ane Doki, which ended up getting cancelled. But because she was a veteran author of romcom manga with ecchi elements, they let her draw the colour page. I'm pretty sure the same applies here.