They were both love romance manga, one really, really felt completed and not rushed (DNA2) and the other was weird in that every chapter kind of focused in a different love story (For the first couple of chapters), basically they were both good love stories that felt completed and maybe that's why they got 13 episode anime, as for they starting development of the anime early on... I don't know but the was a whole one year gap between Hatsukoi being finished and the anime premiere, in the case of Hatsukoi. (Also Hatsukoi sold 850,000 with 4 volumes, that was great even for that era). We never learn for example had sold 330k by volume 4.
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What's SD's Japan sales? 120-130mill?
Ooooof. If It were for only one chapter, Jump could make some magic (double chapter) since they have the chapters 3 weeks or so in advance. But two? No way.
121 mil was 2014 stats, counting the re-released couple years ago should put it at somewhat ~130 million
Some sources even say 170 mill for SD but I think that should be worldwide, 130mill japan only.
Don't worry, neither does Shueisha. They can just do a limited first print and then do reprints immediately after. Helps create a sense of urgency to buy. Watch how they give KnY 23 like a 4.02 million first print, or some number close to the record but not close enough. xDSome sources even say 170 mill for SD but I think that should be worldwide, 130mill japan only.
Right now KnY should have around 90m physical+ let's say 20% digital, let's go with 110mill, so yeah it's definetly gonna beat Slam Dunk, Naruto is 140m, but Kochikame's sales are 158'770,000 just a bit below DB's 160'000,000 (Though those supposed sales are from April '14, I think DB has since gotten a tankobon reprint with a new spine and a combini edition so it might have sold more, maybe it's at 170mill...)
The scary thing is that right now KnY is Jump's biggest domestic seller per volume, because I believe the reported 170mill of Slam Dunk are worldwide sales (I even asked EasyLove, the guy that makes JUMP's top seller videos and he/she said that it was probably a mistake that SD had sold 170mill in Japan, those were numbers mentioned in a TV quiz show in Japan in 2018 but were probably worldwide sales.
Anyway right now KnY only with its confirmed physical sales of 90mill with 22 volume averages 4'090,909 sales per volume. That's without digital sales, and we already know that some volumes have sold upwards of 4'300,000 (Again.. this is just physical sales numbers).
And don't get me wrong its total sales are a monstrosity, but the real monstrous thing is that it only has 22 volumes (23 soon) and it's likely reaching the numbers made by a 72 volumes manga powerhouse Naruto and 200 volume classic Kochikame with only a fraction of their volumes and.. it literally did that in a span of a year.
My one final hope is KnY doesn't get 4.05 million first print, I don't want that record taken from One Piece
Is Phantom Seer releasing its first volume in December? They're waiting quite a while to release Our Blood Oath volume 1. I could see it being axed before then. Also curious to see Magu-chan getting its second volume before Roboco and Dolphin.
Yes.
Main series - One Piece, MHA, Jujutsu Kaisen, Dr Stone, Black Clover getting smaller as between each one
1. One Piece - 390.000.000 (2020)
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100m is Japan only for Jojo? If so, then it's confirmed to be at least at 101 million with France
That's not true ahah. You can see worldwide on Wikipedia with most recent sources as reference.
en.wikipedia.org
We are talking about WSJ only. Not all manga.That's not true ahah. You can see worldwide on Wikipedia with most recent sources as reference.
1. One Piece - 470 million
2. Dragon Ball - 250-300 million
3. Golgo 13 - 280 million
4. Naruto - 250 million
5. Detective Conan - 230 million
6. Black Jack - 176 million
7. KochiKame - 157 million
8. Oishinbo - 130 million
9. Slam Dunk - 126 million
10. Bleach - 120 million
List of best-selling manga - Wikipedia