are the polls an indication that ppl were losing interest in dragonball...

[Fantastische Hure]

...during the boo-saga?

almost a 5x difference in votes between the number 1s of both the cell-saga & boo-saga votes, in-fact goku's number of votes were below trunks (who ranked at #4 in the 1993 poll) & only relatively slightly above piccolo (#5).

either ppl lost interest or they didn't seemingly care to vote anymore (but still why is this much of a difference), i think.

ppl sometimes i think point to dragonball gt for ppl losing interest in dragonball, but could it have been happening before too? just that seemed to happen to an even bigger extent with dragonball gt?

wot do u think?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I wouldn't say so. Jump's sales were at a peak in 1995 (the year DB ended its manga run) as shown here and Dragon Ball was consistently the best selling and most popular manga in Jump from the latter half of 1990 up until its conclusion in 1995 (and would have been from 1988 if not for Rokudenashi Blues temporarily outdoing its annual sales in the first half of 1990).

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If anything, the idea of not as many people voting seems the most likely. Toriyama has said, after all, the real reason for the manga ending there was due to him being burnt out and wanting any arc after the Cell Arc to be his last with full creative control, so it certainly wasn't because of some dip in popularity as with a series such as Saint Seiya or Bleach.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

if it kept steadily rising couldn't more ppl reading also mean more ppl voting?

i don't knw it just seems weird for votes in popularity poll to be so much less in just 2 years (or even less). the difference in numbers seems huge. i mean i could understand some ppl maybe not bothering to vote, but this many? that seems weird to me.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

also i didn't mean to say the loss in interest had to be huge but just maybe slightly less than before

 

[SSJ2]

I agree.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

if it kept steadily rising couldn't more ppl reading also mean more ppl voting?

i don't knw it just seems weird for votes in popularity poll to be so much less in just 2 years (or even less). the difference in numbers seems huge. i mean i could understand some ppl maybe not bothering to vote, but this many? that seems weird to me.

Given the statistics I posted before, it's quite unlikely to be anything beyond not as many people being interested in voting. If 1995 was the peak of Jump's sales at that point and DB was still its most popular manga, it stands to reason that the amount of people reading the manga would be at its peak. This is somewhat speculative, since it could be that Slam Dunk brought in a considerable rise in viewers to Jump, though the same could've been said of any manga in Jump behind DB during the 90s.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

dragonball ended at the beginning tho (i think), if that changes anything

i think that's possible.

i saw 2 yu-yu-hakusho character polls & i think the 2nd one happened around the time the 1st dragonball poll was conducted. the yu-yu-hakusho poll had slightly higher voting the 2nd time iirc, which makes sense if the series got more popular. i think wot could help is to see the slam-dunk polls (if there were any) but i can't find that.

btw could u tell me wot the source for the vid. was? & wot it counted? if it was sales i think i remember something abt death-note out-selling one-piece in 2006.