Perhaps, but how does "slimly" beating one piece in one year and absolutely demolishing it the next one, taking all the single year records and also beating it in individual volume sales sound?
Why arent there more long running weekly shonen anymore with branching 50+ chapter/episode arcs anymore...
Chase Howard
Samuel Davis
No, it sold 12 million last year. This year on the other hand it's at 34 million in 20 weeks so far.
Jaxon Martinez
it sounds to me like its still only about 10% of one piece's lifetime sales
im not even that much of a salesfag, it was not the reason why i got into one piece at a young age and it wont be the reason why i continue
you can shitpost about it all you want, but as of right now its hard to tell how big KnY will really be comparative to the rest of the big 3, simply because it seems to be ending quite soon
thats pretty fuckin impressive then
if the manga continues for a few more years and then movie/second season of the anime continues to help boost sales then it will actually be big 3 material
Ryder Reed
I'm not really shitposting about it. I think exploding at the same time it's heading towards an ending definitely helped it keep momentum.
One Piece will always have longevity over just about everything in the industry and the fact that it even managed to remain this big this long is absolutely unreal.
All I did was say that OP isn't even the most popular series in the magazine RIGHT NOW, and if they managed to find another one once, they can probably do it again. It'll take time, but it'll happen. People used to say the same thing before and then KnY happened.