Dragon Ball Super Manga Sales Decline Post Broly Movie Release

Twitter person and the infographic man @Josu_ke launched the gross sales evolution of the Dragon Ball Tremendous Manga on Jan 17, 2022, the place a gradual decline within the gross sales of volumes 9, 10,11 and 12, publish launch of the Broly Film could be noticed.

The gross sales information contains quantity by quantity comparability, with every bar divided into 4 weeks of gross sales run. The info is a mix of estimates by Oricon and Shoseki in Japan. The figures embody ONLY the bodily quantity gross sales. Digital gross sales information is omitted.

As seen above, the first Quantity had the bottom gross sales, and the one quantity to promote under 50,000 items. The first quantity covers the God of Destruction Beerus and a portion of the Universe 6 Saga and each have been already animated (2013 and 2015) earlier than the Manga quantity dropped (Apr 14, 2016).

The numbers elevated manyfold through the run of the Universe 6 saga till the top of the Future Trunks saga.

The Universe 6 Saga within the Manga (Oct 21, 2015 – 21 June, 2016) was forward of the Anime (Jan 24, 2016 – June 5, 2016). Nonetheless, the Anime slowly began catching up from the start of the Future Trunks arc (June 12, 2016 – Jan 29, 2017) after which went previous the Manga by a large margin in the direction of the top of the arc (July 12, 2016 – July 21, 2017).

The Manga noticed the perfect gross sales figures in Volumes 4 and 5, however decreased dramatically in Volumes 6 and seven (which lined the Common Survival Saga). The anime (Feb 5, 2017 – Mar 25, 2018) was effectively forward of the manga (Aug 21, 2017 – Nov 21, 2018) on the time.

What’s extra, the precise Tankōbon volumes have been launched a lot later than the V-Leap Magazines (June 4, 2018, Sept 4, 2018 & Dec 4, 2018).

The Manga model of the Common Survival Saga was rushed to meet up with the anime and end earlier than the discharge of the Broly movie. In actual fact, Quantity 8 gross sales picked up barely higher than the earlier due to the Broly film being launched at the moment (Dec 14, 2018).

Volumes 9,10 and & 11 noticed a steady decline in gross sales and at Quantity 12, the quantity went under the 200,000 mark for the primary time since Quantity 2.

Volumes 13 and 14 witnessed a little bit uptick (Quantity 14 surpassed the 200,000 mark) resulting from an enormous plot twist and the duel between MUI Goku and Moro. Following that, the numbers plummeted and have continued to take action, together with the present Quantity 17.

The Dragon Ball Tremendous Manga initially was seen as promo materials for the Anime. It later went previous the Anime ending on Dec 21, 2018, into the Moro arc.

At present, the Manga is serializing the Granolah arc and is on its approach to reaching the climax someday this yr and a brand new arc is introduced to observe the previous.

Earlier in December final yr, Victory Uchida interviewed Manga writer Toyotarou to commemorate the discharge of Dragon Ball Tremendous Quantity 17. In the course of the interview, Uchida requested questions that followers posted a month previous to the interview launch date.

Written by Akira Toriyama and illustrated by Toyotarou, Dragon Ball Tremendous is a Japanese manga and anime sequence that follows on from the unique Dragon Ball manga. Having a month-to-month launch schedule, it started serialization in Shueisha’s shōnen manga journal V-Leap in June 2015. As of December 2021, the sequence is compiled into 17 volumes.

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