20 million copies within 3 months

Elvarth said:
Amazingly, volume 19 with Obanai's cover page sold 1.378.000/1.500.000 initial copies in last week. I guess when I type this comment, all the copies were sold out during this week. If VIZ releases English versions faster, the sales can be definitely higher for volume 14-19.
https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1228037154615578631?s=20
Original news from Oricon https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2155294/full/

Without no doubt, volume 20 will have more initial prints than volume 19 with this pace. KNY is really attacking on "Titans" of the manga industry now. Unfortunately, the manga's glory will vanish within this year because the story nearly ends.

Even though I am a neutral reader, I must admit that the commercial and social success of KNY should be carefully studied.

Elvarth said:
As expect, with the release of volume 19, KNY is still trendy. Until February 2, 17 million copies were sold.
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FWSJ_manga%2Fstatus%2F1224992739244347392&widget=Tweet
With 3 million copies are sold from last week, the franchise has sold over 20 million this year so far.
https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/1227482931872092161/photo/1

I hope the story's ending will be satisfying so it will not affect the upcoming volumes. It seems the upcoming movie will not affect much to the series sales until this point.

xenosys said:
Interesting stats. With sales like these, I'm surprised the publisher hasn't asked the author to elongate / extend the series as long as physically possible to maximise those profits.
The series probably has another 10-15 chapters max before it ends.

Elvarth said:


In my opinion, there is another scenario although it may sound illogically. Despite of the success of KNY, it seems that Shueisha, especially Jump, loves other old series than KNY right now. Even though KNY is a cash cow for the company, unlike Western companies, Japanese companies may favor seniority more than talent.
It happens all the time in the world: you are the best money maker for your company but you may not have the best chance for promotions without backing up by your seniors. As a newbie with a huge success like this, you can be a target for bullying and hatred at workplace. Why can it happen? The answer is that Jump can heavily criticize other authors and editors due to their lack of popularity. From Wikipedia, KNY is the only youngest manga (4 years old) which has 40 million copies worldwide until now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_manga
My assumption can be silly: the way Gotouge tells the story in recent chapters is different from their style in previous arcs, it seems the author "was forced" to rush to the ending. The success of KNY can upset loyal fans of other "titans", which can lead to the decrease of revenue in long-term for Jump. In order to save reputation for some long-term manga and their authors, such as Oda, Jump may not want to boost KNY so much.

This is just my personal opinion, we never know what actually happens inside the industry.

Rider9530 said:

I doubt this is the reason it's ending.
The manga was not considered popular before the anime at all, so i think the mangaka planned to end the series before the anime because it was not very popular and when the anime became extremely popular it was already too late to change directions in the manga.

AnimePowerUps said:
It's an amazing manga and I hope it continuous to sell even more! ✌