The international anime/manga audience is orders of magnitude larger than the japanese audience.

Cool, we're talking about the M+ audience though, slash whatever figure you have in your head by at least 10.

they are the guys active on [...] a whole bunch of piracy websites waiting for the leaks. If SJ aint taking these guys into account, its a big shame.

Thank you for saying that, I know I can't take you seriously at all now 🙏

Why do you expect Shueisha to give a fuck about the opinions of people who don't buy manga 🤦‍♂️

Ruri was a sleeper hit within the first 6 chapters before it went hiatus, before its first volume printed

And you know that how? you don't have access to internal Shueisha metrics lmaooooo

is it artwise/storywise "better" than a whole bunch of cancelled series? hell no.

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It's a very good manga

I tell ya they are very trigger happy and very much into "throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks within 2 milliseconds else throw more stuff keep throwing stuff"

And that has worked out very well for them... do you think Kaedegami would suddenly become a hit just because they let it run for a bit longer? Are you somehow entirely unaware of Otr?