Family sells, specially if it is well written. All you have in shonen is shit like MUH NAKAMA YOU'RE LIKE MY BROTHERS!!
M-MUH LITTLE SISTER I WANNA FUG YOU!
MOM WHY ARE U DEAD MOMMY
Kimetsu deals with family bonds in a way that is realistic, and we all can relate.
Oricon's Top 10 Weekly Chart by Series
Christian Watson
Logan Robinson
Based fat elf Chad
Xavier Richardson
>everything's getting axed
based
Caleb Long
God I'd love to get a screencap of him coping, it is also lovely it is selling that well despite corona
Sebastian Smith
How do we save MHA?
Hudson Green
>can someone explain kimetsus growth?
No, every answer you'll ever get is going to be missing something, this is some shit that the people analysing the market will be studying for a while.
It started with a very high quality anime that climaxed with episode 19 trending worldwide, then the sales escalated to a ridicolous amount after it beat OP in 2019.
Caleb Richardson
Cant block the croc
Dominic Hall
Wow this year's Oricon chart is going to be funny, Kimetsu at #1 might have more sales than the total sum of the rest of the top 10.
William Ross
Not much shonen worldbuilding to insult your intelligence
Not many autistic shonen magic rules
Without those things it's possible to expand the audience past the normal shonen jump 2020 ceiling of ~500k per volume of young nerds, otakus, and fujos.
John Cruz
Kill someone important
Then kill 4 more, plus 20 irrelevant ones