...well, shit I wasn’t expecting this. Though OP does have a new volume coming out, but this is absolutely insane. It won’t last, since OP has a new volume, but... Jesus.
So far it is like a suckerpunch in the guts. Then an uppercut to the chin. Then a kick in the nuts. And then a german suplex to finish things off.
5Toubun has no chance fighting for 3rd once OP 97 releases (it has no more big releases and its backlog, while still very good, isn't strong enough to close that gap), the only series that has a shot at beating OP other than Kingdom is Haikyuu since its backlog has been going nuts since the series' ending, if it can hold it like this for a while it has a shot (although I don't think it's very likely personally, but it does have an anime coming in october so that might help it). Kingdom on the other hand basically has 2nd in the bag at this point unless its backlog randomly collapses.
So no one is going to talk about the fact that jjk and spy x family are above aot in yearly sales without having an anime out yet. I know that aot only have 3 volumes per year and only 2 came out but even then this is crazy.
This was expected, actually. The last Attack on Titan volume sold less than 600,000 in 4 weeks (not counting SE). Jujutsu Kaisen has had good backlog sales through the entire year and Spy x Family is still up and coming and hasn't peaked yet. Spy x Family 5 comes out next month and that will probably add the numbers the series needs to be on top of Attack on Titan. Jujutsu Kaisen still has a new volume coming out in 2 months as well, plus the anime so it has a chance of beating it too should Attack on Titan keep the previous volume's numbers. Also, Attack on Titan still has a chance of being out of the top 10 when the list is finished because Hanako-kun should release a new volume in October or November and Fire Force's backlog is still selling.
it seems weird we had two series that were generally fairly well liked and unique in Jump (Food Wars and TPN) that ended up nose diving in quality as they went on then within a year after ending their writer/artist duo released one-shots that are exorcist stories trying to be unique (ironically I think trying to be unique is almost as cliche as just being an exorcist story at this point like how adding stupid gimmicks to isekai has overtaken just being transported to a fantasy world but that's beside the point)
The "trying to be unique" seems more like personal assumption, Yugen was clearly inspired by series like Jigoku Sensei Nube and it didn't felt like "trying to be unique" at all to me but a traditional take on the genre
i mean, whether you like it or hate it, the entire purpose of a one shot, is to either
Of course, i'm just really surprised how uncreative and trivially simple the whole thing was. Too barebones even for those purposes imo. The Food Wars duo's similar (but wildly different in execution) exorcist one shot had so much more going for it. This was just a single cliche scene we have already seen a million times.
OP has only released one volume this year compared to the 3 or 4 it usually does. I mean Kimetsu really blew it out. Kingdom and the rest would easily fall behind had OP released 3 volumes.Actually sad to see One Piece's hype dying after 23 years of being untouchable every year.