Magu chan is manga that spends more time on the bottom compared to other series
That's not true Stivie, both ST&RS and Agravity Boys lived almost 100% of their lives in the bottom while Magu-chan has plenty of placements in the middle, not to mention it also started in the top while AB in the bottom, ST&RS had 3 good rankings, a color page and sinked to the bottom where it stayed until the end, ranking wise Magu-chan is doing far better than both.
Not so, of course magu chan started much more after a while the manga started to spend most of the time at the bottom or near the bottom.
Huh. I never really noticed before, but Magu actually has a decent shot at outliving Magico at this point.
Yup, such an explosive popularity that the series literally exploded. If I were the magazine I wouldn't want to write something such as "the series is doing poorly and we had much higher hopes but please do us a favor and read it, look at the pretty colors". All I'm looking at today is wether the series is above or below the bottom 5 and if it is than it's good enough and hopefully will grow in sales in the future.
The point is that Magu-chan placements as a whole are far superior than AB and ST&RS that were just stucked forever in the bottom while Magu-chan fluctuate a lot in the middle too.
Magico wasn't exactly "super popular" or anything, but it was popular enough in the placements and sales to keep going for over a year, and at that time when SJ had all the big hits together, unfortunately the author introduced a bad character which caused the series to sink in the rankings, but volume sales were still decent for that time and good for today:
The fact that Magu managed to penetrate the merch market before any sort of anime is still noteworthy (it's like if the Pochita UFO plushes came out in late 2019). Merch is a very lucrative ancillary market in of itself. You seem to be dead set on the idea that the only way a manga can make "muh profit" is tankobon sales but the reality is that the merch market is a vast ocean of moneymaking opportunities. That a little backpack plush retailing for around 20 dollars (US) even sold out at all indicated to Shueisha that there is an avenue that Magu can exploit.
So, it's okay to have a manga that doesn't have good sales and bad positions in TOC since you guys are saying the plush toys are selling, if that's the case then you should transfer as this is just taking up space.
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Look, not every manga that wins anime is an absolute success. Eden zero and fire force are there to prove it, besides, magu chan is not this pokemon 2.0 that you guys keep selling.Imagine Magu-chan getting a morning timeslot anime targeted for kids/teens and becoming a merchandise success for Shonen Jump, isn't something impossible to happen
Fire Force is a bad example in this case, it went from 2.3 million before its anime to currently 16 million. It's no KnY/JJK/TR, sure, but it was overall still a good success and moved copies.
Eden zero is not a hit compared to previous mashima works, especially fairy tail.
It doesn't need to be a success like Fairy Tail, the anime still a success on it's own.
I had already stopped the discussion and you guys started again, it's not just my fault.
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I would say it's pretty faded, I wouldn't call it a success.
It would be a disservice to the forums credibility and respect if you let flagrant and blatant conspiracy theories go unaddressed. I will not stand for fictional twists of reality to be given the light of day and neither should you!