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NEWS: Thermae Romae's 4th Volume Is First One to Top Chart




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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 5:02 am Reply with quote
Obviously, the upcoming TV series increased interest on it.

Maybe that could mean a prolonged 2nd season! Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:00 am Reply with quote
If the 3 previous volumes had sold around 5 million copies and the 4th gets 250k the first week it's released, wouldn't that mean that a large percentage of people who read the first (or two or three) no longer have much of an interest in reading more?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 9:03 am Reply with quote
Sales on first week were actually a bit lower. They didn't buy now, but it doesn't mean they won't ever buy /read it. If having next volume is only a matter of visiting next bookstore and you know they won't be sold out quickly you don't feel any pressure to have it right now.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:51 pm Reply with quote
"5 million copies"? No. There is obviously a mistake here. Thermae Romae is very popular, but Saint oniisan is the bestseller king among the seinen-manga, and even it doesn't have that sort of sales numbers for only 3 volumes. Maybe 2 million is much closer to the truth.

And why would the anime announcement increase interest? That is ridiculous. Then what about Uchuu kyoudai, Kingdom, Sakamichi no Apolon, Mysterious Girlfriend X (and so on)? Will their sales go up too?
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:58 pm Reply with quote
ridiculus wrote:

And why would the anime announcement increase interest? That is ridiculous. Then what about Uchuu kyoudai, Kingdom, Sakamichi no Apolon, Mysterious Girlfriend X (and so on)? Will their sales go up too?


Apparently, according to this Square Enix producer, the pre-anime interest spikes up for their manga too.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 4:11 pm Reply with quote
I don't understand who would buy the 4th volume of the manga based on an announcement alone. Why not the first volume? Some small number of die-hard otakus isn't enough - we are talking about hundreds of thousands here. And Thermae Romae is not otaku-related in any sense.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 6:07 pm Reply with quote
rather than the mini anime series I believe it's the movie (with lots of famous actors) that is increasing interest in the series (the movie is the one that made it on the cover of the 4th volume, so for sure they believe it to have more potential for (commercial) success) or it's simply the fact that the series is constantly getting more readers and with this volume more readers than before have bought it right when it first came out (volumes 2 and 3 also did sell very well when they were released, and volume 4 has got a limited special edition, motivating people to buy it fast).

ridiculus wrote:
"5 million copies"? No. There is obviously a mistake here.


No, it's true. The series as a whole did sell more than 5 million copies. And since Saint Young Men did outsell it this year, I suppose it's overall numbers might be even higher.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 30, 2011 11:41 am Reply with quote
maaya wrote:

ridiculus wrote:
"5 million copies"? No. There is obviously a mistake here.


No, it's true. The series as a whole did sell more than 5 million copies. And since Saint Young Men did outsell it this year, I suppose it's overall numbers might be even higher.


It just sounds too unrealistic to me. Not that I wouldn't like it, mind you, but last year I used to follow the manga sales closely and I clearly remember Thermae Romae being in the rank of 500 000 copies per volume sold or slightly more. The numbers just don't add up to 5 million. This is a proof from ANN itself:

Quote:
Top 50 Manga Creators by Sales Since 2010
posted on 2011-08-05

On Thursday, the September issue of the Nikkei Entertainment magazine published a list of the top 50 manga creators by sales since January of 2010, along with other statistics:

36 Mari Yamazaki 1,893,000 Thermae Romae 44 Female


And this is the second one:

Quote:
Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Series: 2011
posted on 2011-11-30

48 Thermae Romae Mari Yamazaki 1,006,323 Enterbrain


The first volume went on sale on November 26, 2009 in Japan, so by what miracle the first 2 volumes sold 4 million copies in the fiscal 2010 when the whole series sold only 1 million throughout the next year?
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