@Chrono______@jufablade_ Then why didn't it sell better pre-anime. This argument is going in circles. The facts are these:
Pre-anime sales were pretty meh for a WSJ title.
Post-anime sales were insane.
@Kaspsol @anarchopac Dickens & Verne legit would've written a couple comics had they been born 100 years later. They worked very closely with their illustrators.
@HristoeL@GameAnim I'm still kinda salty no re-release of Symphony ever bothered to utilise the fixed Richter sprite from the Saturn version. He's supposed to be wearing a coat, damn it! It's in his dialogue portrait! :P
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@soincthehed@WSJ_manga Dr. Stone wasn't super big in terms of sales, to be honest. At 20 volumes, it was selling 500,000 per volume. I mean, that's GOOD but I think WSJ likes when their series exceed 1 million sales per volume.
@tjomionias@megallade@WSJ_manga Makes sense, considering they're at 7 tankobon-less chapters right now and 9 chapters tends to be the traditional amount for a weekly manga volume.
@JustFrostbyte@WSJ_manga Well, that's unfortunate. Seems like 110 chapters were left unadapted? Chapters per episode ratio for each season was: 2.92, 3.12, 4.10, 4.08. How was the pacing in Seasons 3&4 anyway? Good or too fast?
A 25 ep. Season 5 would be even faster (4.40 chapters per episode).
@VIZMedia@TPNManga Since we're getting the TPN Art Book and BeyondTPN this year, hopefully we can get at least one TPN light novel in 2023.
You guys are a tad overdue, they're already available in France, Spain, Italy & Poland.
@Sofibeth5445@VIZMedia Not sure what's taking so long. Maybe they're saving up the remaining bonus chapter for the promotion of the liva-action TPN series from Amazon? It got announced back in 2020. Don't think it was cancelled.
@Sofibeth5445@VIZMedia Sure, eventually. But it will take a while. There's the Ray chapter, Krone chapter (2x length) and Isabella chapter (2x length). So we still need 2 more double length chapters for the standard tankobon size (9 regular chapters).
@Mordred14394@VIZMedia Definitely, since it features the TPN epilogue chapter.
I suspect in the future we might get some sort of Volume 21 since there are still some bonus chapters that haven't gotten a tankobon release yet. But that will take a while.
@mtisuri@LonelyPepp@VIZMedia That's... not how it works. You don't have to declare every official piece of media canon. That's the default.
It's the non-canon stuff that needs a special disclaimer.