The warnings were dismissed endlessly here, but I don't think the editors are as delusional as you guys here. XD
It is very rare for the sheer fact you can only list two other series in which it happened to. Also it was a ploy to get people to read both volumes as a whole since the series doesn't begin until the second volume its why there's a current meme going on in Japan based on Kishi's afterword for v1 stated that the manga is like dried squid you have to keep chewing until you get the flavor leading to funny comments about how people have been chewing since it started and still cant get it.
Like it was said below, I seriously doubt they would issue a lower printing number for S8 than Robot x Laserbeam.
That is just your guess about why they published 2 volumes at once, but thing is, is something that happens, rare, but happens with veterans coming back, and no, Rinne wasn't a huge disappointment sales wise, i remember pretty well seeing both volumes selling over 100k in the top 50, for Shonen Sunday is nothing disappointing (Yes i know the manga didn't keep selling like that after)
Yeah, from what I remember, RxL had good TOC placements until 2018, timeskip arc and Act-Age/Boze batch
Its not a guess it was something blatantly advertised that way and Rinne only sold 100k LTS for those two and never reached that peak after, its sales were also disappointing compare to Inuyasha.
Shonen Sunday these days will take a 5k+ seller, let alone something like Rinne. Which is sad, but hopefully tides change with MAO and Yofukashi bringing some buzz to the magazine. Things like Kamio Yui would have lasted for 10+ volumes minimum there.
Unless you show me a piece of advertising where is stated "hey, buy these two first volumes from the new Kishimoto manga called Samurai 8! Are you wondering why is two at once? because it gets better on v2! I promise you ;D", is just a guess.
HQ's peak is 990k my guy
In 4 weeks?
I mean now, like they're treating it as a pillar or one of the faces of the magazine
Funnily enough, the whole "it gets better in Vol. 2!" thing was Kishimoto's volume comment, right? Something about dried squid?
I feel like people need to clarify which peak they are talking about. HQ's peak in a month before leaving the charts is somewhere in the early 800s. So Kimetsu still has a bit more to go. HQ's peak print for a volume is more than a million.
In his first interview about the manga he already stated that the manga would have a slow start and gets better with time and even that he expected readers to not be much engaged with it at the beginning.
That's exactly what I said but he ignored it.
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Of course it matters because it did not sell 100k initially that was after 4 years.
