Kagurabachi's success is that it quickly became a phenomenon, gaining a huge fan base in many countries around the world as well as achieving extremely high discussion levels on social networking platforms. The achievements of this manga series serve as a marker for the transformation of the manga industry.
Kagurabachi's success: skyrocketed before its official release
Shonen Jump's latest series, Kagurabachi, has become an overnight phenomenon, and the success of the work partly proves that the manga industry is gradually changing in a good direction. Kagurabachi's success is not simply that the classic Shonen genre is gradually gaining more attention from readers, but is also a sign of the change in the manga industry over the past few years with readership and popularity in The West is getting higher and higher.
As editor of Shueisha, Momiyama shared his views in a post on the X forum: "We are on the verge of realizing an era where the series will become a famous work. all around the world."
Manga is gradually gaining global popularity
As Momiyama pointed out in his post, series like Kagurabachi and Kaiju No. 8 are the clearest evidence that the series' global popularity no longer depends on its performance in Japan. , or Western audiences' reception of anime adaptations.
Over the years, if a series was successful in Japan, it would be adapted into an anime to boost sales, and the anime would attract an international audience, thereby increasing the need for translation. However, now Shonen series have online translations on platforms like Manga Plus, so the series no longer need to take too much time to reach fans around the world.
The success of Kagurabachi also makes readers in Western countries more curious about Japanese series. Manga Plus' recent figures are the most typical example. The platform has a new subscription and payment plan that increases manga accessibility globally, and it's currently selling well. In the future, Shonen series will certainly become more and more famous around the world.
Kagurabachi's success came so instantly that even the author was surprised, because it can take decades to become that famous. However, because it is popular in the West, it also leads to consequences: series that are not loved by Western readers will probably be mercilessly canceled. And you, what do you think about this work?
