according to wikipedia...

[Fantastische Hure]

kimetsu no yaiba movie has become the highest-grossing film of all-time in japan. that says the movie has surpassed spirited-away.

that's surprising that a film based on a weekly-shonen-jump title was able to become the highest-grossing of all-time & even surpass studio-ghibli (i think). i think kimetsu no yaiba might be the most successful series of all-time for weekly-shonen-jump, when comparing only in-terms of how long the series was & comparing the peak of the success, even surpassing dragonball & one-piece & so-on. this year alone the series surpassed one-piece's peak year easily (documented years at-least i think) i think, even by the half-year result surpassed one-piece's peak year entirely iirc, i think.

that's good success i think i think.

 

[SSJ2]

The fuck is kimetsu no yaiba

 

[Fantastische Hure]

biggest series in japan right-now i think

 

[SSJ2]

What a joke

 

[Fantastische Hure]

i think that's gr9. that's good for the author i think. the anime seemed to rly help the manga tho i think, before that the series wasn't as successful i think.

last year oricon also said kimetsu no yaiba was the highest-selling manga, but shueisha said the series was a-bit behind one-piece i think.

 

[SSJ2]

Might have to give a try to see what's so great about it. Not expecting much

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Might have to give a try to see what's so great about it. Not expecting much

There's not really anything, with it being very much just a generic Shonen with the lack of creativity and abundance of plot holes you can expect from modern Nekketsu (Battle Shonen). The manga only gained great popularity as a result of the anime's success, which only got enough attention because of the budget of its animation as well as its opening song rather than anything to do with its plot and characters.

In terms of substance, the anime Dororo is essentially a far better version of it, and even that isn't anything too spectacular.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

but according to this link ppl do like the story & characters tho i think:

https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/19372447/

either-way i think the author & ppl who worked on the series deserve the success & money & all

 

[Captain Cadaver]

People also like the characters in My Hero Academia and other very generic Shonen .

That's not to say I don't respect the mangaka's success, since it still takes some talent or intellect to successfully market a series like this right, though that still doesn't make its popularity indicative of its quality.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

perhaps, but this is unprecedented success unlike ever seen before in weekly-shonen-jump i think & that during this hard time too i think. there's got to be something abt this series i think. boku no hero-academia's success doesn't compare i think. that's not just the marketing i think. the marketing didn't get that huge until the sales became rly high (which was after the anime came-out) i think.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

A lot of popular series seem to have exploded in sales recently as a whole, most likely due to the Japanese public's tendency to buy products over pirating them and the explosion that recent events wouldv'e provided towards current digital sales. Shingeki no Kyojin broke 100 million sales, about a 30 million increase from a few years ago despite its monthly status and Kingdom having gone from 47 million copies sold last year to 70+ million currently.

 

[Boo Brand Milk]

The number one grossing movie is "Whatever It Takes: The Rich Piana Story"

 

[Fantastische Hure]

boku no hero-academia & most other wsj series haven't tho i think

there are only a few that i can name i think

 

[Captain Cadaver]

MHA and most of the other currently running WSJ series have been waning in popularity lately I believe though, which helped open up the opportunity for Kimetsu no Yaiba. There's also less that's been done with it in the past 2 years than with Kimetsu no Yaiba, with the latter ending this year (something that Naruto proved can make for a huge boost in sales). Similar things can also be attributed to SnK and Kingdom's popularity, with the former anime's final season starting recently and the latter getting a 3rd season (not to mention its length alone is something that would make high sales inevitable as seen with many long-running series).

 

[Fantastische Hure]

kimetsu no yaiba became popular before that ended tho. kimetsu no yaiba ended this year, yet last year that was either the highest-selling or 2nd best-selling manga of the year, having sold at-least over 10 million tho i think. nothing being rly popular in wsj doesn't necessarily have to mean that another series will become huge i think, especially not this huge (i think). kimetsu no yaiba is almost known by every1 in japan, every generation i think.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Not often that huge, I agree, though it does seem like a bit of a running trend that a popularity vacuum allows for new series to explode in popularity at times. Toriko enjoyed initial success when Bleach's popularity started to wane around 2010 and onwards and a lot of MHA's success can be attributed to Naruto no longer being one of the series that could compete with OP's weekly/monthly/annual popularity. It stands to reason that the chances of and rate at which a new series explode in popularity can be correlated linearly with the decrease in competition in the past few years, with KnY having far less competition than either of those two series.
It can also be due to having the right concepts absent from other series at the time, even if nothing special by the scope of the medium's full history. It's somewhat more violent than any work currently in WSJ iirc (unless counting Hiatus X Hiatus which definitely isn't scoring points for the current industry when it's not even had a chapter this year ) and the female character Nezuko was treat in a manner with more plot relevancy and respect than the female characters in something like MHA. Its traditional Japanese setting is also one that'd open up the market beyond the standard age range by it not being unfamiliar to the wide variety of demographics within Japan that would be aware of the country's history, as opposed to series that are entirely their own thing and would require the audience paying attention to its world building to get into it.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

there might be a trend there, but there have also been times where no series was that big, for example after slam-dunk ended i think rurouni-kenshin was clearly wsj's biggest series (there was like 1 other series that didn't even run for that long that was almost on-par seemingly), but at the time rurouni-kenshin was out-done by other series in diff. magazines like detective-conan i think. the series was wsj's flag-ship but not that huge & clearly kept the magazine afloat (u could say rurouni-kenshin even saved wsj at that time) during the days where the magazine was transitioning from 1 gen. (dragonball & slam-dunk & so-on) to the next (one-piece & naruto & so-on). after that came an influx of new series that seemed to reinvigorate wsj & brought the magazine back to no.1 status, during that one-piece wasn't the only series that came, there was hunter x hunter too. sometimes there is just down time i guess where there isn't a series that's that huge.

also naruto also was very traditional & abt japan, yet that series undoubtedly got out-done by one-piece in japan, which wasn't as much.

^i think i think on everything

 

[SSJ2]

I read chapter 1 yesterday. I can honestly say that I regret it.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

i think that's official now

https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-news/2020/12/27-1/demon-slayer-mugen-train-dethrones-spirited-away-to-become-the-no-1-film-in-japan-of-all-time

 

[SSJ2]

Finished chapter 9 last night, and I have one word for this story: generic. So far there isn't anything that sets this story apart from others. It's the typical sad story where family gets killed, kid becomes strong and fights the people who killed his parents. Except this one feels cheaper than most. The kid pretty well has 2 years of training largely skipped over so that he can suddenly become extremely powerful. He was shown to become stronger than anyone else who received the training for no valid reason aside from plot. Had they shown the training in depth and maybe shown that he'd taken the training to another level, I'd be more willing to accept it, but it's just incredibly lazy. Can't see myself continuing this for much longer unless it miraculously becomes more of a unique story.