The Tokyo Revengers manga has just reached 50 million copies in circulation, a milestone that makes it one of the best of all time. But the sales growth was it constant? And how much did the anime influence it? Let’s analyze the work of Ken Wakui!
Serialization of Tokyo Revengers began in 2017 on the pages of Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. After 4 years and just over 200 published chapters, Wakui’s manga has already matched the sales of other iconic works such as Rumiko Takahashi’s Inuyasha or Kohei Horikoshi’s hugely popular My Hero Academia. This is the only way to understand the great influence of this work.
Numbers in hand, Tokyo Revengers has over 50 million copies in circulation, with the last ten being distributed in just 4 months. In fact, as of September 2021, the manga “only” had 40 million copies in circulation.
From the chart posted by Twitter user @Josu_ke, it’s clear that the Tokyo Revengers are growing in popularity exploded concurrently with the debut of the anime seriesavailable in the Crunchyroll streaming catalogue.
Therefore, if even the Japanese government celebrated Tokyo Revengers, it is to the credit Work of animation studio Liden Filmsand an appearance on the Japanese show AmeTalk.
The Wakui manga, ha even inspired a live-action and a few weeks ago, Season 2 of Tokyo Revengers was announced, which will adapt the Christmas Conflict arc. How far do you think the success of the Tokyo Manji Gang will go?
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Manga Sales Evolution JapanUpdate with the new volumes.
Now we can better see the growth of TR popularity.
An insane increase in just half a year. Also pretty fortunate that the Ametalk appearance almost at the anime premiere will trigger two pretty strong lifts. pic.twitter.com/Z4ioXh9ka1– ε―ΏδΈδΊ (@Josu_ke) January 24, 2022
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