More people buy the older volumes after seeing the anime, therefore, there are more people caught up and ready to buy the new volumes when they release.
No data has been presented to suggest that the old volumes are selling and people are sudddnly caught up as of this season.
Yes there is? Check Shoseki for example. During S2's run, every single volume has been inside the top 200 each week.
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The guy who was leaking the ToC said he was quitting. So we'll likely be waiting until Thursday for the foreseeable future.
After the top 50 youre down to like only 3000 copies at least, thats not a lot
Well for instance, this week, every volume sold between an estimated 7,500 and 4,250. So yeah, it's not a lot. However, small growth does not equal no growth like you're suggesting.
Over 14 volumes and a few months, that's 150-300k. Significant enough. That's how Kingdom got it's massive boost a year or two ago, it just had 3x the volumes so could rack in 100+k per week. 3000 a week per volume for something that's already past it's initial anime boost is still pretty impressive.
This makes me
Honestly I believe it already has when taking digital sales in to consideration.
That's what I'm thinking too. Now if only Jump would release the total numbers to appease the data-obsessed folks.....
Except digital releases are not cheaper, they are the same price minus tax (would still likely be charged at checkout). Meaning Shueisha probably make more money off digital because there are no printing or distributing costs.
I know they make more profit from digital. That's why I specifically said they would make less revenue i.e. 400 yen for digital instead of 432 yen using One Piece as an example.
The same way Black Clover is expected to get a boost for Volumes 13 and 14 which are a 100 chapters ahead of the anime. Even if it doesn't show up in the top 50, and even if its hypothetically 3k in sales, that still 3000 people that bought the volumes and can decide to buy later volumes. It all adds up just like with Kingdom which went from around 300k to 750k in 2 years and is now very close to getting to a 1 million first printing soon.
1) Piracy was not born with Kindle, it was there since before that, scanners are meant for that, Japanese publishers started to make digital edition available just very recently, there are mangas that even don't have any, it doesn't stop Manga Editors to rip it and will never stop.
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