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smurky turkey
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The ''old men'' are truly invading. I put quotation marks there because you are instantly old after leaving school in anime.
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Meexa
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He reminds me of Paul Greyrat from Jobless Reincarnation.
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Vizo
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freebird1994
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So the manga was nothing special(honestly the story wasn't either) but there was one scene that got me interested.
spoiler[Basically what happens is the main characters meet a blacksmith who can judge a persons capabilities by a handshake.(so he shakes one of the girls hand and a muscluar bull appears). But when he shakes the MC hand, a demonic leviathen creature appears and scares him. And what's really cool is that panel is actually pretty interesting to exam cause of how it applies to him. I can't describe the creature you'll just have to go to the chapter(12) but for example most of the creature is in shadow because the MC doesn't believe in his own strength. And so its other cool stuff like that.] So when I read that it really piqued my interest so i'm interested in how the story will go. |
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MFrontier
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I feel like there's already a very similar show airing this season...
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Rob19ny
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I had a feeling this felt familiar. I did read some chapters earlier in the year. I liked what I read. This will be interesting.
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Shay Guy
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Narou anime spreadsheet updated. By my count, there's now 30 of these things in the works, just that are publicly known. And over 100 have already been made.
Only five new ones have been confirmed for fall so far (plus the return of shows like Re:Zero, Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, Arifureta, and Shangri-La Frontier), down a bit from the previous year. I wonder if webnovel anime will ever go the way of visual novel anime, or if Narou, Kakuyomu, and whatever succeeds them are destined to be the industry's slush pile for the long term. |
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Chipp12
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Just like I've said.
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Shay Guy
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"Rivals Spy x Family and Jujutsu Kaisen" is a bit of an exaggeration. This page purports to list Oricon's ranking for the top 200 best-selling volumes in 2023, and this manga's only entry was volume 3, landing at #155 with 190,787 copies. If we measure a manga's popularity by just looking at its best-selling volume, it ranks at #51, between Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaidō Arc and Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill. Still impressive, especially for a series that young. But in terms of post-2020 manga debuts, it comes in below the likes of Daemons of the Shadow Realm, Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You, and The Summer Hikaru Died. The Japanese Wikipedia page for this series does say the manga's sold 4 million copies as of January, but also that that includes digital, which Oricon's numbers don't. Even if a higher proportion of its sales were digital compared to other manga, I frankly doubt that it's anywhere near the level of Don't Call It Mystery or Kaiju No. 8 (the two biggest titles on that chart that didn't have an anime in 2023), let alone the million-plus top tier. If we want to compare to other manga adaptations of light novels, the Square Enix version of The Apothecary Diaries sold 202,417 copies of volume 5 in three weeks back in 2019. This manga may be growing faster, but it's still not at that level, let alone where TAD was in 2022, selling 290,684 copies of volume 10 in three weeks. And while this manga's fourth volume sold 129,420 copies in the same timespan, Reincarnated as a Slime was doing much better (202,299 copies) at the same point in its life. EDIT: If you wanna compare how JJK or SXF were selling when their fourth volumes came out, okay, JJK seems to have been around the same level of popularity (though that represents faster growth, since it's a weekly series). But Spy x Family #4 sold 497,480 copies in three weeks. No way does From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman rival that. EDIT2: Found more recent sales numbers for the manga. Volume 5, the most recent, came out in January and sold 131,492 copies in three weeks. Again, not bad, but not spectacular. (FWIW, the equivalent number for JJK was 141,388.) |
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timber
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I have seen a few chapter of the manga, not bad but it was not enough to give me an idea of the story line and how it would, so I can't really judge.
Speaking of "old man" anime, one I'd like to see animated would be Henkyou No Roukishi - Bard Loen |
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Gisan Otaku
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I've been reading the web novel. This announcement was a nice surprise. As always with a web novel I am reading, I look forward to the anime. Once it starts to air, then I will judge the show on its own merits.
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Chipp12
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According to the more recent reports Master Swordsman is at 5.5 million copies with 5 volumes out which is not that incomparable to Kaiju No. 8 which is at 15 million copies with 13 volumes out. And it's not like I was the one comparing those titles, I've mostly quoted the contents of the video from a Japanese youtuber (by the way in his most recent vid he replaced Jujutsu Kaisen with Kaiju No. 8). |
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Shay Guy
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Do both those numbers include digital? Because I find it very hard to believe that's an apples-to-apples comparison, given the vast differences in the Oricon numbers. And while you cite "more recent reports", Master Swordsman doesn't seem to have suddenly blown up since volume 5 came out, judging from Google Trends results (which don't compare to the big leagues). Preorders for volume 6, which comes out on Tuesday, are doing well on Amazon.co.jp -- currently #9 in "Comics, Manga & Graphic Novels (Kindle Store)". But again, I don't know how that compares to the likes of Spy x Family, Jujutsu Kaisen, or Kaiju No. 8. And every apples-to-apples comparison I can find suggests Master Swordsman is nowhere in their league. Unless you have an explanation for the Oricon numbers? |
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Blanchimont
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A bit wrong. The combined sales of the light novel(7 volumes) and the manga (5 volumes) is 5.5 million copies. |
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Chipp12
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Correct but based on what I heard bulk of the series' sales numbers comes from manga. |
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