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NEWS: Digital Manga Volume Sales Overtake Print Manga Volume Sales in Japan for 1st Time




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GoldCrusader



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 10:45 pm Reply with quote
That's pretty interesting. I assume new series are also way more digitally loaded in term of sales then oldies like OP. Shame we only get a breakdown of physical sales in Japan with those weekly charts.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:30 pm Reply with quote
Despite the advent of digital manga and anime, phys. sales are still important since sometimes the former group will lose such rights. By having a phys. version, you still can enjoy it.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:42 am Reply with quote
"Sales of comic books, the biggest drop in the past. The reason was not just the electronic version."

Instead of reading manga, people just play mobile games, watch Nico Nico or Youtube, read Twitter, etc. There's a lot of other things to pass the time now.

This was kinda predicted already:



The decline of physical books means more closures of brick-and-mortar bookstores.
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#861208



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 7:30 am Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:

Instead of reading manga, people just play mobile games, watch Nico Nico or Youtube, read Twitter, etc. There's a lot of other things to pass the time now.



This is true.

I feel like manga might be shrinking, but other story media are growing at enough of a rate that the otaku-media sphere overall is growing. There are more original anime; more novels; more original drama CDs/ drama-CD-original series becoming continuous and popular. There are more stage plays as adaptations of games/novels/etc. (I keep hoping for original-story 2.5D theatre to become more of a thing).

And they may not look it, but mobage have pretty intense stories. I'd say that if you were to look at fans following popular manga in 2008, and look for a 2018 equivalent to that, it wouldn't be Boruto or Black Clover, it would be Fate/Grand Order or Ensemble Stars.

I don't think manga is dying, and I don't think it's bad that manga isn't the only thing anymore. I sort of wish that more non-manga, non-anime media would get translated and released outside of Japan, though. I feel like even with simulcasting, Western fans are out of touch with the Japanese otaku-media sphere because if it isn't an anime or a popular otaku manga, you're still pretty much out of luck.

(one of my favorite series gets so much hate on English sites because the anime is bad, and English fans don't know the rest of it, but the original drama CDs and stage plays are really good. But Western fans will likely never get a chance to see them...)
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