Post One Hit Wonder

Sharman king

He was lucky that he got a good tard wrangler

People like Toriyama or Togashi or Rumiko Takahashi, who can put out out more than one series that does extremely well are very rare when it comes to manga.

Kurumada got 4 anime adaptations, a live action series and changed the industry forever. That's a big accomplishment for a guy that never learned to draw

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With a hit like that, would you need another ?

If you're talking popularity wise probably most mangaka that get really popular but I hate the concept of a one hit wonder (even more so in music because it's more of a concept there) because people hear that phrase applied to someone and then don't bother checking out any of their other stuff even if it may be just as good or better but just didn't hit the right chord to be popular with the masses.

Tite Kubo

Yeah one hit wonder is more of a case of popularity in the masses than anything else. Not a measure of objective quality at all.

yes

Limited serialization means that 500 chapters take a bit more than a decade.
Magazines want their successful series to be decade long, or even longer, to increase merch cross promotion.
The modern mangaka simply do not have the freedom of somebody like Tezuka, who can publish 5-6 manga's a year, and end them all within 5-20 chapters. As such its not about one hit wonders, its about their work of art being too long to create complimentary statues alongside it.

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kurumada is a god though, not a mangaka. so it doesn't count

Tezuka does have plenty of shorter manga but he also has longer ones like Astro Boy and Black Jack. Phoenix is long but it's also split up into parts and was published on and off for decades. Jojo for instance is kind of similar, though more in line with the modern way with each part being ~150 chapters instead of ~30 if Phoenix was weekly judging by the page counts. I'm kind of confused about how older stuff was published though because it feels like they combine chapters for the volume release. Phoenix for instance isn't really split into chapters iirc. Only the parts. And stuff like Getter and Saint Seiya have 50-100 page chapters in their volume releases despite I know at least Saint Seiya being weekly.

Sailor V was a separate manga. So it's two for her.

SM is overrated shit.

finally someone else agrees

You've never seen or even just read it, have you?

faggot

I watched it when I was back from school, get fucked it was shit but there was not much else to watch at that time. besides the anime block was all in a row, so I watched 5 or 6 anime titles one after the other and then went back to do my own shit

meant to

Nobuhiro Watsuki.

Ah, so you watched it dubbed. Figures.