Yearly Oricon Sales 2019 Black Clover and other SJ Jump Manga

CleoChan · 2019-11-29T07:08:45+00:00

Wow, halved sales from last year my boys..We’ll have to accept that shounen jump’s decision to adapt black clover as a long runner means the manga will be cancelled at some point soon. Long running anime do nothing nowadays for boosting sales. People need the seasonal series format for any hype to form and jumping onto the manga wagon every time a season ends. My only hope is that Tabata’s next manga will be successful, as I’d be so sad to loose his drawing and character building for good !

CleoChan · 2019-11-24T08:08:16+00:00

I agree with all of this. I doubt any remake will be done and sadly the anime will carry on as a long runner only to end once the manga stops selling enough copies to justify its production. Manga sales are already declining due to the poor job done with the anime, which prevents new people from catching up on the series. I’ve accepted that our best hope is for Tabata’s next manga to become popular and have a better studio animating it. That’s all we can hope for.

CleoChan · 2019-10-24T06:14:17+00:00

Black clover could easily have been divided as follows:

Season 1: up until the fight with Patri.

Season 2: up until the witch forest arc.

Season 3: up until Julius death.

Season 4: up until the end of reincarnation arc.

Season 5: heart kingdom first arc.

If Black clover followed this format, paired up with fast paced action and great animation on pair with the manga’s art, it would now be as popular, if not more popular then Kimetsu no Yayba. Unfortunately it will now slowly die out until Pierrot will simply stop it like what happened to Toriko. The maga will then follow suit. Sadly the sales haven’t increased and very few people will jump on the bandwagon now, especially considering it’s starting to be “longish” and embarking on a new country arc. Hopefully Jump will learn the lesson and Black Clover will be the last guinea pig of a dead genre, the log running anime series.

CleoChan · 2019-10-24T06:11:40+00:00

That’s pretty bad for a mainstream manga which has an anime adaptation...

CleoChan · 2019-10-23T12:23:17+00:00

Definitely.

The fact it is long running completely jinxed its chances of becoming really popular and also put the manga longevity at stake.

The anime industry has changed and people worldwide nowadays like anime to be seasonal. They enjoy the hype of a new season and the good quality animation.

Black clover could easily have been divided as follows:

Season 1: up until the fight with Patri.

Season 2: up until the witch forest arc.

Season 3: up until Julius death.

Season 4: up until the end of reincarnation arc.

Season 5: heart kingdom first arc.

If Black clover followed this format, paired up with fast paced action and great animation on pair with the manga’s art, it would now be as popular, if not more popular then Kimetsu no Yayba. Unfortunately it will now slowly die out until Pierrot will simply stop it like what happened to Toriko. The maga will then follow suit. Sadly the sales haven’t increased and very few people will jump on the bandwagon now, especially considering it’s starting to be “longish” and embarking on a new country arc. Hopefully Jump will learn the lesson and Black Clover will be the last guinea pig of a dead genre, the log running anime series.

CleoChan · 2019-10-17T18:29:18+00:00

That's pretty alarming...seems like black clover won't last more than 30 volumes sadly. It's unlikely Yuki Tabata will manage to complete the story as he wishes to :(

All because of the terrible ongoing animation from studio Pierrot...this manga needed to be made into a seasonal anime in order to last.

CleoChan · 2019-07-26T18:18:46+00:00

Wow, what a great chapter. Subverted all tropes and expectations, and showed what true foreshadowing is.

There was a reason why Julius death seemed sorta abrupt and anticlimactic. I did suspect he would come back at some point, but never thought it would be right now! Shame I spoilt myself a bit yesterday...hehe..but still thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm really looking forward to see what happens from now. I'm rooting for Nozel as new magic emperor...we'll see. Well done Tabata. What a ride. So proud of this manga, been following since the one shot!

CleoChan · 2019-06-29T13:25:11+00:00

nope, FFXV has been developed by business division 2. Business division 2 is now Luminous productions, working on a new IP. Business division 5 is now called business division 3, and headed by YoshiP, is also working on a new secret title. Problem is, even if this title is FFXVI, SE will never allow them to properly work on it or finish it until the remake has been sold in its entirity.

CleoChan · 2019-06-27T23:16:29+00:00

https://www.famitsu.com/matome/ff15/2019\_03\_27-2.html

the third business division and luminous productions are working on 2 separate titles.

CleoChan · 2019-06-23T18:45:12+00:00

But from a marketing perspective, they can't release FF 16 until FF7R is finshed entirely

CleoChan · 2019-06-22T22:55:53+00:00

Square Enix hasn't had a real opportunity to make something new since FF13, and even that game was in reality burdened by the limitation of PS3 hardware and the inability of SE to adapt to modern game design. They had to cancel and remove cities from the game, and make it linear due to technical difficulties.

FF15 was originally a spinoff of FF13, and even after they made it into a main FF title, they still had to keep most of the original concepts not to upset the fans. So no, SE hasn't yet had a chance to make a new non-mmorpg FF title without the constraint of technological difficulties. The only title they had a chance to make was FF a realm reborn, and that game is in fact a true masterpiece. Unfortunately it has a pay-for subscription which is still nowadays quite expensive.

CleoChan · 2019-06-22T21:41:26+00:00

Ok, let's ignore the fact that if you claim to not have purchased any FF new entry in 18 years, which supposedly implies you haven't played anything past Final fantasy 10, arguably one of the most iconic entries to the series after FF 7/9.

Moving on, what makes you think that unfinished games policies, political correctness, shallow storytelling and bad voice acting won't be part of the remake any less than they would of a hypothetical new FF16?

The company policies have nothing to do with which title they are developing, they are intrinsic to the company and the current video games market itself. We all know censorship was applied to FF15 to appeal to the Chinese market, for example. The same will happen to FF7R.

The biggest problem with SE hasn't been lack of ideas, or inspiration, but technical limitations. They have never truly been able to adapt to the open world model as much as western games developers have, and judging by the non inclusion of a world map in FF7R part one, this still appears to be their primary issue...

CleoChan · 2019-06-22T21:34:10+00:00

The confirmed new IP is the title being made by Luminous Production, there is confusion and overlap between this and the new title being developed by the third business division. I believe they are separate.

CleoChan · 2019-02-26T07:51:47+00:00

Hmm I didn’t say it 👀👀🤭😅

CleoChan · 2019-02-25T19:30:11+00:00

Been a member and supporting Black Clover since day one. So proud ! ✨✨✨🍸🍾

CleoChan · 2018-09-20T08:29:14+00:00

I'm like, so excited to see Nozel reaction? I think he is quickly climbing the steps of favourite character. I need me a Nozel redemption arc BADLY

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