In the last few years there have been a lot of mangas arriving that have then achieved some of the success, but few of them came from Weekly Shonen Sunday. The magazine can always count on Detective Conan’s success and projects, but there are few other titles that really manage to establish themselves in the world of manga. However, this year he found Sousou no freezing.
In the publication of April 28, 2020, Sousou no freezing is a manga drawn by Tsukasa Abe and written by Kanehito Yamada (former author of Nanashi wa Ittai Dare deshou? and Bocchi Hakase to Robot Shoujo no Zetsubouteki Utopia). The mangaka duo decided to plunge into an atypical story and proposed an elven protagonist who had to contend with a journey into a fantasy world that often oscillates between drama and comedy, adding adventure and life.
The history of Sousou no Frieren immediately won over Japanese readers of Weekly Shonen Sunday, with the magazine, which had to respond to the overwhelming success with many color pages and covers, in addition to the prints of numerous volumes. Indeed, Shogakukan revealed that the first three volumes of Sousou no Frieren had a total print run of 550,000 copies: 190,000 for the first and 180,000 for the second and third. A very high number for the magazine, considering the authors are practically unknown and the story isn’t even a year old.
But the The popularity of Sousou no Frieren has also reached the west, with the chapters of the manga that are widely read and discussed on the most popular social networks such as Reddit and Twitter. Unsurprisingly, there is one on Myanimelist Average grades higher than 8.50, a very high number for a series that has just begun. It seems, therefore, that Weekly Shonen Sunday has found another manga to focus on in the future that will continue to ramp up production after production.
The successful Komi-san Can’t Communicate came to Italy from the same magazine.
“Sousou no Frieren” by Abe Tsukasa, Yamada Kanehito, had an initial print run of 190,000 copies for Volume 1 and 180,000 copies for Volume 2 and Volume 3, respectively pic.twitter.com/Uml3R7Zyqg
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