Yozakura showing the newbies who's the boss
Best example in recent times is Double Taisei. The first 1/3 of the series was quite bad and filled with confusing, unnecessarily complicated drama. However, the last 2/3 of the series was simply brilliant. It's a shame the Tendo Era couldn't have happened by chapter 3 at the latest in order to save the series. The artwork was superb; Saotome was a babe; and Haga was one of the greatest characters to grace the pages of WSJ.
Not sure if it's just the promotional art, but it looks like Spring Weapon author's artwork has improved since his previous serialization. It'll be quite interesting to see how this series does, especially to see how it stacks up against the other gag series.Preview of Issue #20 (HQ)
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Not bad for any of the new series. I'm guessing we'll see a reprint for Undead Unluck in about a week, and maybe Agravity will get one too within the week after.
Depends really. Samon I think went through a simmilar thing. Even though Shun Numa isn't a household name with a big hit to his name, Jump still pushed Samon for some reason. Only for them to realize that their efforts didn't really pay off as volume sales weren't that hot. So this could happen to newbies as well.
Wasn't Yozakura's hold surprisingly good last time too? Interesting that it holds up so well despite starting behind. Black clover also goes back on top of stone. I guess it'll be pretty close.
I wonder if they'll give it 2.5million right off the bat this time or just stop at 2 million. 2.5 million would tie it with Slam Dunk as the 2nd highest first print for WSJ all time.
They will probably give 2 million to volume 20 first print since they still want to capitalize on the buzz and keep making reprints. If anything, we'll probably see the 2.5 million first print with volume 21. As for Yozakura, volume 2 fell less positions than volume 1.
With the recent announcement from a handful of hours ago stating that Abe is likely to declare a state of emergency over COVID-19 within the next couple days, I'm guessing this will finally start to show an impact on the physical sales that we traditionally track on Shoseki, Honto, etc. I'd hope that people would shift to digital purchases in order to support the authors rather than not purchase anything at all, but we wouldn't be able to see the sales data from the digital unless they specifically reveal it to us.
MHA is currently the best selling manga in the US and manga in the US is a growing market and much bigger than it was 10 years ago, so...although that's print, not sales, which are probably a bit lower, but it's about where I would expect it to stand. Also worth noting that this probably includes the other territories where VIZ publishes, such as canada and the UK, like another user pointed out.
I recall Naruto being 1.8 at 23 volumes, or something like that
I have volume 22 of Naruto here in my hands, and the tag line on the back reads "the smash-hit manga that's sold more than 2.2 million books in the U.S.A.!" Bear in mind this is the second printing of volume 22, but it was printed the same month as the first printing, so I'd say it's fairly accurate.
It actually could affect the magazine releases, at least in print.
Not really? I doubt they'd close down basic groceries stores like Lawsons, and those things are everywhere in Japan.