| I'm one of the 13% :D Well, that's not really surprising, since it's kinda adult-like, anyway ~ x3 |
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| I am read OP since I am young until I adult. But I feel the spirit from my heart as same as young. |
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| Not surprising at all, since i am turning 18 (adult) this month myself ^^ Though...i only watch the Anime XD But really i hope people would stop bashing other shows/manga without even reading/watching them at all and even if you don't like the show please keep your shit to yourself. - Thank you. |
| I'm not surprise since the manga has been running for 8-9 yrs? so the readers are adults by now |
| I first tried reading the manga when I was 16. Didn't liked it back then. Now I'm a bit older (just a bit, mind you...I'm not that old) and I kinda appreciate it more. Not to the point of it making it my favorite, but to the point where I can understand why a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of people like it... Maybe a lot of older readers understand and appreciate the story more because of maturity... |
| But seriously if you consider that most people started reading for a while now (like 10 years or more), people even if they were 10 back then they are 20 now so it's only normal that most readers are adults and I kinda find it not that surprising. |
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Invensible1 said: people even if they were 10 back then they are 20 now which is incorrect.. normal people dont start reading manga at 10 years old... that would be 5% or less.. plus the popularity of the manga wasn't at the beginning.. it started to be popular later after 20 volumes or so.. |
smokes said: normal people dont start reading manga at 10 years old... that would be 5% or less.. plus the popularity of the manga wasn't at the beginning.. it started to be popular later after 20 volumes or so.. I can't speak for the western countries but in Asia, like Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, it is not an uncommon culture for boys as young as 10 to read manga. I am one living example and I know plenty of guys that fall into that category. The difference is most of them drop manga/anime as they grew older , well, probably because of quarter-life crisis. Agree with the popularity went up after 20+ volumes though. |
smokes said: Invensible1 said: people even if they were 10 back then they are 20 now which is incorrect.. normal people dont start reading manga at 10 years old... that would be 5% or less.. plus the popularity of the manga wasn't at the beginning.. it started to be popular later after 20 volumes or so.. That is actually a misconception. I remember One Piece topping the weekly reader charts of WSJ even back in 1999, I even have a scan of such a chart flying around somewhre on my harddrive. Dunno if I can find it that fast, though. |
| Steel Ball Run anime when? |
| Wow, that's interesting. Now I want to know about bleach. |
Utsune said: By chapter 10034 they'll all be adults Exactly |
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smokes said: Detective said: but One Piece still strongly remains a shonen manga with often cliche shonen elements (fight bad guys until you win, NAKAMA, power ups, training arcs, etc)  this just shows how ignorant some bitches are and how Trolls are born.. on ALL entire 600 chapters only ONE training arc was ( and that also skipped) only 2 powerups ( not like bleach, over 5 or 6 i dont even remember ) and the NAKAMA thing was only at the beginning.. so stop trolling and stop provoking us.. i dont even understand why little kids who DIDNT even read the show are writing stuff on forums? ugh :| >who DIDNT even read the show I really want to take your complaint seriously but I can't. |
smokes said: ShadowGilgamesh said: From everything i hear i should love one piece, so did i find it so unwatchable? em dude, 1998, horrible animation/quality. etc. (ofc everyone will get turned off seeing nowadays animation quality) read the original source aka Manga. Don't ever blame the animation quality because of the Year. Ever heard of Neon Genesis Evangelion? Cowboy Bebop? |
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sert908 said: Wow, that's interesting. Now I want to know about bleach. This just in 90% of bleach readers are 12-14 years old. |
SuperSaiyen said: smokes said: ShadowGilgamesh said: From everything i hear i should love one piece, so did i find it so unwatchable? em dude, 1998, horrible animation/quality. etc. (ofc everyone will get turned off seeing nowadays animation quality) read the original source aka Manga. Don't ever blame the animation quality because of the Year. Ever heard of Neon Genesis Evangelion? Cowboy Bebop? Gundam F91? Macross? Martian Successor Nadesico? |
| its not the gospels word 88% of subjects used for collecting the data were over 18% |
| i dont mean to complain about the current chapters, but there is like so much going on, its kinda hard to comprehend |
| I rarely talk about One Piece, but.... Like everyone has been saying, if you have a manga that has been running for 13+ years, yeah eventually people grow up. Also, who cares that 88% of One Piece readers are adults, is this meant to validate anything???....NO Every manga/anime has different taste to different people, not every kid will like shounen and not every adult will like Seinen. |
Nidhoeggr said: And as usual, a good discussion gets ruined by idiots who think that biased reasoning somehow equals facts. Thanks Metroid, smokes, echoshadow, etc. You are everything that is wrong with anime communities. meh... Some people like Star Wars, some people like Star Trek. all it is, is a new Dragon Ball Z for a new generation. |
| El Oh El ^ That's what I felt reading through this thread. I'm One Piece fan (since I'm Korean), but its genre will ALWAYS be SHONEN, but never SEINEN. However, it doesn't mean it cannot appeal to adult more. Simple as that. Beside, one piece is more of Japan's 'national manga' right next to dragon ball and Fist to star. Nothing can beat those three anyway. Even though Naruto is more popular in western kiddo fanbase, major buying power and critics will always be strictly inside Japan community. |
alexcampos said: I rarely talk about One Piece, but.... Like everyone has been saying, if you have a manga that has been running for 13+ years, yeah eventually people grow up. Also, who cares that 88% of One Piece readers are adults, is this meant to validate anything???....NO Every manga/anime has different taste to different people, not every kid will like shounen and not every adult will like Seinen. This means that even adults can't be bored with this manga. Over 13 years and the popularity is growing which means the manga still kicks ass, and is interested enough (record after record) Ofc it does not mean it's a Seinin, it's Just the only ongoin shounen that doesn't disappoint at the moment... |
InfiniteRhapsody said: wow xD well im 18 XD, but i didnt expect that only 13% are youngsters XDDDD looooooooooool It says that 13% are OLDER than 50 years old. Geez. That surprised me. |
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Nidhoeggr said: wakka9ca said: This makes sense. It explains why OP always tops the sales. The buying power of adults >>> buying power of children and teenagers I beg to differ. It's Japan we are talking about, the culture of reading comics/manga is entirely different and is certainly not a good object for over-simplifications. There are also statistics of Top 10 Manga through various age groups showing that all kinds of manga can be popular. Blaming it on the demographic alone is biased reasoning. But you cannot deny that it may have been a contributing factor. Did I ever say that it was the only factor? Nitpicking on other people's comment is good but when you start to think everyone else is an idiot and you are the only smart one.... it won't get you far in a discussion.... Not everyone is as stupid and simple-minded as you think... |
bla bla bla The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.Niko-kun said: On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard? |
ShaunG said: Not surprising, every person who've kept reading one piece from the start in his teenage days, is now 12 years older... |
| I'll take One Piece over Naruto (Anime at least) any day. But I am just round episode 165. `86 here and I just started this maybe two years ago.. same for anime with the exception of Dragonball Z about 7 years ago during highschool if i do my math right. |
ApolloFCFeb 11, 2011 8:27 PM
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| This news is not surprising at all. As one person here mentioned, most readers were in their teens when they first started and have continued to read to this day; I've seen people in my college in their 30-40s reading One Piece. However, there is more reasoning than the age. Think about the number of chapters One Piece has, over 600 at present. Unlike Detective Conan, the One Piece story is sequential and continual, thus people would need a lot of time to catch up, and considering everyday Japanese (not talking about otakus, but those that read manga occasionally) don't have much time due to their personal lives and school, this goal isn't very realistic. |
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| well at first they were sticking by becuz they thought it would finish it soon and they didnt want to drop it fo no reson.....an than they realized their all adults. |
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| i'm one of those 43%! XD anyway.. one piece has been running since 1997 (manga) / 1999 (anime).. so that's nearly 12-14 years.. the story and characters has many hooked unto it since then :) |
reinwaldFeb 11, 2011 11:13 PM
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| Maybe I can finally get some of my hater friends to watch it with me now. |
FOE-tan said: So, since One Piece started over 10 years ago, most of these adults would have been children when it started. someone who started reading it when they were 13 would be about 26-27 now. This. Then again I didn't start OP when I was already way past that age. I was like 19 then, and I'm 21 now. It may seem silly that so many adults are reading a series thats known to be "childish", but hey, my mom still watches and enjoys cartoons and animated films intended for kids, and shes over 40. |
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| That's not a very hard statistic to believe, maybe because I'm a contributor of that 88%. There are three words that can described One Piece; awesome, awesome, and amazing. One Piece FTW!! |
SailorCardKnight said: I did admit that One Piece is undeniably shonen, but it definitely isn't childish as I read along. Underlying themes and dramas are sometimes very dark and just overwhelmingly well constructed to just put it into the American cartoon category.It may seem silly that so many adults are reading a series thats known to be "childish", but hey, my mom still watches and enjoys cartoons and animated films intended for kids, and shes over 40. |
| Hopefully ODA will finish it before all use guys go bald and the ladies start to sag >.< |
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ringoo4 said: SailorCardKnight said: I did admit that One Piece is undeniably shonen, but it definitely isn't childish as I read along. Underlying themes and dramas are sometimes very dark and just overwhelmingly well constructed to just put it into the American cartoon category.It may seem silly that so many adults are reading a series thats known to be "childish", but hey, my mom still watches and enjoys cartoons and animated films intended for kids, and shes over 40. Thats why I put "childish" in quotes, as I was quoting the common, majority view of the series by those who aren't familiar with OP. =P I'm fully aware of the mature adult themes of the series. |
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Also, who cares that 88% of One Piece readers are adults, is this meant to validate anything???....NO It mean OP >>> Naruto + Bleach and that people who think otherwise have poor taste and their opinion doesn't matter because they're noobs. |
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wetpantsu said: myth720 said: I started the anime not more than a year ago, and I'm halfway to catching up. Trust me, you won't regret watching and/or reading it.I want to watch & read it but the length intimidates me >_> I was intimidated too, until after much pressure from a friend of mine to check it out and I was running out of stuff to read at my local library back in early '09. ....Flew through all 55-ish volumes that where out at the time in the time span of 4-5 months. 8D Ever sense I've caught up, I've been following the weekly releases since. |
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