Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings for Mar 7 - 13

WhiteFlamee said:

so u dont know the ratings of the 2014 anime.

if it got bad as u claimed it did then why isnt it cancelled yet?

bigivelfhq said:


There are many possibilities. Like getting the ratings back up again, earning money in other ways. The DVD in the magazine(when the 2014 began they made the Fairy Tail Magazine, that was selling the anime episodes together. That sold well), merchandise and other stuff.
Note how since 2014 any new arc had a greenlit announcment. That means they are always only planning for the current arc, and without further information they stop the production.

ichii_1 said:

No, all I have is an old pc :'(

WhiteFlamee said:

yeah but didnt u say something like it had a poor rating of like less than 1% (if u didnt than i am sorry)? How can they possibly think the ratings will go up after that?

Is there any sales figure of those ft magazine ur talking about? I just find it odd that u have stats saying that its declining but the anime is surpassing most shonen anime in length. I thought it was surviving because of how well the manga is selling

TomDay said:
i'm sorry but hintata looks straight up hideous there lol.

TomDay said:
i'm sorry but hintata looks straight up hideous there lol.

bigivelfhq said:


Well it definitely had ratings of less than 1%, and in fact the series stopped the first time because one of the anime studios doing it bailed out, Satelight(Fairy Tail is an anime made by 2 companies at the same time. Being the main Studio A1-pictures), and now they have a new one, Bridge.
What they are thinking I don't know, unless they talk in public about their business decisions it will be hard(if not impossible) to really know.
Just note that different series have different circumstances, is wrong to treat them as the same. For example, Toriko anime ended while getting great TV rankings(always in the Top 10), selling great merchandise(In the Top 100 character merchandise. Note that in that ranking appears everything from Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty and other mega famous sellers) and selling great manga. While there are a ton of other series doing way worse that are still going. Why is that? Different objectives with the franchise and different circumstances. Just that.
In the case of Toriko it was substituted by a franchise that does 10 or more times better in every other aspect, and while Toriko was in decline that series was in a huge expansion(I'm talking of Dragon Ball.). You can in a way analyse Fairy Tail by that, but not directly with Toriko, but by looking at A1-Pictures series situation. Does A1-Pictures has any other franchise, that runs in a similar format, that is way bigger than Fairy Tail and is in an expansion phase? Space Brothers maybe? But that doesn't have enough content to continue as anime.

The magazine appeared 2 or 3 times in the regular weekly manga sales ranking(yep is a manga ranking but it still appeared), I don't remember well what it made, and searching for it will take to much effort, but I remember that it did pretty well, better than selling the DVDs alone. Normally only volumes selling more than 10k appear in the weekly rankings, but in DVD/BD sales of 10k already means great sales, especially long runners. So certainly it was doing incredible well(though the magazine already ended).

I don't take that much attention in Fairy Tail manga sales, but or is stable or slightly declining. And its sales are great, but nothing out of this world. Looking at last year sales the best Fairy Tail volume sold 502,390 copies. That was worst than every volume of Bleach, with the exception of the last one. Though is important to note that if we count the best volumes of this series since 2010 to 2015, Fairy Tail lost around 60k buyers, but Bleach lost around 300k(yep, in the past Bleach was selling almost the double of Fairy Tail!).


Still note that I don't have data about the new anime series of Fairy Tail is doing in TV ratings, nor how the merchandise is. It can have got a big increase. They are even going to make a new movie, though the last one was a flop.

BVerfG said:


It's not Hinata?^^

j1mla said:


Wow, so if Vol. 71 had been on sale for the same days it would have definitely surpassed Vol. 70. Easily. The others were right, people liked this heavy Japanese feeling in Kyouraku's backstory. Thanks for the information.

Other than that, I am freaking tired of this Bleach decilne discussion. Guys seriously, that's what happens every time volume sales are updated, haven't you had enough?

Edit and update but end this discussion for Christ's sake: First volumes of The Thousand Year Blood War Arc sold approximately 100.000 more than the last volume of the Fullbring Arc. So there you go. Advertisment people, advertisment...

AdmiralKizaru98 said:

Nope not because of advertisent, its because people lost interest

WhiteFlamee said:

and how do u know that?

AdmiralKizaru98 said:

Beacuse the sales went down in 2009 and even before that since volume 26, and at that time Bleach was advertised very hard with games and color pages and an anime.

WhiteFlamee said:

thats 2009... I'm talking about recently.