Biggest Drop of Manga Sales In Japan
Chart: Manga Sales in Japan 1991 - 2009
Manga Magazines: 191.3 billion yen (-9.4%)
Comic Books: 227.4 billion yen (-4.2%)
RIP attributes the drop to three reasons:
1. Effect of the economic recession
2. Spread of Manga Cafe
3. Small number of big hit titles
Sources: NHK, RIP
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Mar 17, 2010 8:19 PM by TerrorH3ctor
manga is slowly dying, unfortunately. i dont buy manga, never have. i plan to if i ever have any money to commit to it. oh noes its my fault. that KILLS manga
Manga and anime will never die.
Mar 17, 2010 5:59 PM by Drunk_Samurai
Mar 17, 2010 5:33 PM by 108s9001
Mar 17, 2010 4:59 PM by androidphantom
Mar 17, 2010 4:00 PM by renjikuchiki1
Mar 17, 2010 1:40 PM by Drunk_Samurai
also
1) Ever heard about the economy crisis?
2) You can read free manga online at hundreds of different websites.
This, but especially the first one. And I'm pretty sure there are a few sites in Japanese where you can download manga, probably even more than "a few". Just type "漫画" (manga in Japanese) with "download" in Japanese, but appearently I forgot how to write download in Japanese and not really willing to search it only for this post. And of course other variants, like "free" instead of "download", but I seriously suck at kanji/hiragana/whatever the fuck so yeah. And then there's of course the English and Chinese sites who offer free raw manga, don't forget about them. It's not "hard" to find at all if you use a certain search machine called "Google", yayay~
Mar 17, 2010 1:18 PM by Zonak
wtf it's still a lot of money
not so if converted to dollars. O.o
this kid thinks 4.6 billion dollars isn't a lot of money
either he's stupid, or he's stupid.
Mar 17, 2010 12:40 PM by CottonCandyLover
Mar 17, 2010 12:20 PM by TrooperUlquiora
there aren't any Japanese sites that hosts manga in Japanese (to my knowledge), since they would quickly get shut down by the publishing corporation's lawyers.
it's the internet, you can always find it if you look hard enough. You should know this.
Look for it hard and you'll might find it, this is the reason why the manga sales are dropping, derp.
It doesn't change the fact that it's not common, and the organisation that actually knows the deal doesn't list internet as any reason to why the sales are dropping.
Only a bunch of morons on MAL who don't know shit is.
Learn the difference between the manga market in Japan and the manga market outside of Japan.
Mar 17, 2010 11:07 AM by AfterGlow
Mar 17, 2010 10:04 AM by Yup
there aren't any Japanese sites that hosts manga in Japanese (to my knowledge), since they would quickly get shut down by the publishing corporation's lawyers.
it's the internet, you can always find it if you look hard enough. You should know this.
Mar 17, 2010 9:58 AM by kkslider5552000
Mar 17, 2010 8:47 AM by kisami
Mar 17, 2010 8:23 AM by Retro8bit
Mar 17, 2010 8:20 AM by AfterGlow
Mar 17, 2010 7:47 AM by removed-user
Mar 17, 2010 7:28 AM by Edgey
I mean, when you can buy 2nd hand manga in near new quality for 104yen per manga, rather than spending between 300-1500yen for one manga (on average around 400yen) then you can see which is going to sell more. I'll bet 2nd hand manga sales aren't counted in the stats.
Mar 17, 2010 7:24 AM by rachelcabbit
maybe they should change there name because the name RIP is killing there statistics XD
Absolutely. xD
RIP... oh, the irony. xD
This is... kinda bad news, but not really unexpected, due to the economy crisis and all. :/ Plus: People read less than before, it's a trend all over the world. Magazines and newspapers are pretty much doomed.
If you ask me, there are manga out there far better than the "big hits", but they just don't get the attention they deserve and aren't suitebale for the mass, I guess. :/
Mar 17, 2010 6:52 AM by kennikitty
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