Kimetsu no Yaiba Manga #20 Takes Oricon's Top 2 Weekly Slots by Selling Nearly 2 Million

They LITERALLY cannot stop us!
>Oricon reported on Friday that the regular and limited editions of Koyoharu Gotouge's 20th Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga volume ranked #1 and #2, respectively, on Oricon's weekly manga chart for the May 11-17 week. The regular edition sold 1,086,157 physical print copies, while the limited edition sold 904,092 physical print copies, for a total of 1,990,249.

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Cool, now when are we gonna see a sequel/prequel?

How did this take off so well? Was it ufotable+advertising or was it super popular before the anime?

No sequel nor prequel. If we are going to have either of em, it's another author..

Consistent release of a simple story with slightly flashy visuals while literally every other manga competing for its audience shit the bed.

>us

Based on how it ended the mangaka doesn't want to milk the series and will most likely create something new if she comes back.
It sold decently well before the adaptation but it caused a ton of people to read the manga that previously had no interest. Considering the anime only went to chapter 50 the sales then are mostly contributed to people just liking the manga.

As to why the manga is popular: it's in a very important time period of japan, romances samurai, and has a strong focus on traditional japanese culture and religion. But more so it's just an old fashioned shonen. No crazy overarching story about wanting to be the #1 ninja hokage hero wizard of the pirates. Just a bunch of characters connected together because of some asshole villain who they want to kill.

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>simple story
This. It feels like a classic shounen.

>us

You didn’t do shit you fucking loser

It wasn't afraid to take risks and kill off the majority of its characters
stuff actually happened unlike other shonen that get soullessly milked to nothing happening for years

>Based on how it ended the mangaka
not based on what Jump want

>Was it ufotable+advertising
yes
>was it super popular before the anime
no

Nobody will give you a straight answer without sounding like a retard

All this is just bullshit. Basically its just a bandwagon effect that I don't know why people need to assume that a series that sells well automatically means its good.

Finally someone with a fucking brain

Stay mad OP/MHA fag

>Was it ufotable+advertising
Yep
>was it super popular before the anime?
Its sold less than BC and the first volume didn't even make the top 50 upon initial release. As for its appeal its a Japanese thing or rather an Asian thing, he story and characters are so simple that even a child can get into it and that's...honestly it. It does nothing new, it does nothing particularly well its just braindead simple.

>Its sold less than BC
Kimetsu pre anime>BC pre anime.

Nope, it was selling less than BC up until last year a little before the anime's premiere.

It's standard shonen fair, but I think people find tanjiro / nezuko relationship endearing? I did atleast. I mean, fma serialised in an unknown magazine also did super well.
Who knows, maybe nips themselves don't know that deep down they love this kind of archetype.

>All this is just bullshit. Basically its just a bandwagon effect that I don't know why people need to assume that a series that sells well automatically means its good.
If that was true then it'd be selling well outside Japan as well but it's not. It's only resonating with with east asian countries

>. As for its appeal its a Japanese thing or rather an Asian thing, he story and characters are so simple that even a child can get into it and that's...honestly it. It does nothing new, it does nothing particularly well its just braindead simple.
Its funny how when a survey of LisA's best singles came up and all the people didn't realize that she did music before KnY

Before the anime announcement it was doing standard 120k / mth. Honestly, yaiba sales was only for the first 4 volume. 5 & 6 did as much as chainsawman is doing now.

Only doing badly for the first 4*

>Before the anime announcement it was doing standard 120k / mth.
That is not true, Yaiba needed three authot recommendations because it was selling that badly.

A sales chart exist user, yaiba, around the 10 volumes, was doing as much as bc is doing now.

Wrong.

Well BNHA also got recommendations from oda and kishimoto despite having a great sale from start.

>Well BNHA also got recommendations
No it didn't. All it got was two author shoutouts and that's it. Kimetsu had volumes with the author of HxH and the writer of Type Moon praising the series on the front spine to get readers attention.

>If that was true then it'd be selling well outside Japan as well but it's not
What? I was talking specifically about Japan. Once it outsold OP in a year that's when people started buying in impluse rather than because it was good.

Fucking hell user, you're a fucking new fag

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Good job proving yourself wrong retard

>but why?
>explains why
>b-bullshit!
kill yourself mouthbreather

>explain why
>I like it so that's why it sold well
>that's stupid

Also KnYfags shouldn't be calling anyone else mouth breathers.

Learn to fucking read. If 120k / month is considered bad, then you're a fucking retard

>120k / month
>7 weeks