That never happened, Bleach at its absolute lowest still sold 402,316 in 4 weeks with volume 72, while Toriko at its absolute peak sold 387,777 in 4 weeks with volume 20.
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I’m talking about yearly sales. It ranked higher at one point, I believe.
Yes, Toriko outsold Bleach on the yearly charts by series in 2011, 2012 and 2013. After that, Toriko fell behind Bleach again, even dropping out of the Top 30 entirely.
I see, well that sure looks like some hard push campaign lol, guess they were both pushed hard it their own way, tho I guess Toriko gets the edge cause it ended up lasting longer
Yeah, I remember it just going over yearly sales in Bleach for a couple years and my gut reaction being: "You've promoted it this much and that's all it gets?"
I might just go back and give it a try again with a clearer mindset. I read it weekly until around chapter 300 but my bias definitely clouded my judgement (I'm still not a fan of the art style though).
Cobra being old doesn't change its immense quality. It's still a fantastic series that blends pop fiction with hard scifi in an extremely accessible yet rewarding way. It's like a smoothie filled with trashy exploitation and psychedelic cinema, Star Wars, and Stanislaw Lem all blended together.
eh Toriko cracked 18 million copies at 27 volumes and it reached 20 million at volume 30 (the last 13 volumes pushed it to 23 million)
Easy. S8. The promotion for S8 and the build up with mentions and screenings of S8 at various events just kinda made it obvious that they want S8 to be the next big thing before it even came out. Most of Toriko's promotion was after it started serializing with the covers and LCPs and they worked because Toriko had one of the best debuts for a new series.
Only reason Toriko overtook Bleach in yearly sales was because of backlog boost from anime. Even Soma had overtaken Bleach because of those. So it wasn't much of a factor. Obviously, as a hardcore Bleach fan I was also annoyed.
Worst performers ever is a stretch
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The Toriko, DB, OP cross over was just because of Toie though I don't remember it being intended to make toriko look bigger than Naruto and Bleach
Well, I didn’t mean to suggest that. I don’t think Jump intended on Toriko pushing out Bleach anyway.
Hasn't it already hit 225k by now?I’m so happy with Burn The Witch!! I bet it will end up at 225k
Toriko push was bigger and Samurai8 push was worse.
I may be mistaken, but doesn't Twitter personalize the trending topics based on your profile? I mean, not to downgrade MHA, but it seems strange to me that we get so often report about manga chapters trending in other countries than Japan.
It does personalize it but to still get on trending, you'll need to have a number of mentions.
Actually yes, but you can double-check with the trending list by country. I saw this morning the not-personalized list and it reached a point that it had 4 different My Hero Academia TTs for the chapter spoilers (and a Shingeki one, also for spoiler leaks lol).
Isn't Toriko current number stuck on 20 million copies though? I've checked and I see the number is that.
It's at 14
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oh, so it's even betterIt's at 14
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