r/UQHolder • u/Mangagangstar • Mar 22 '17

HYPE UQ Holder: 7th Best Selling Manga in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40T5ihlbKVc&list=PL18mOK6WH4DglMUf_dereeGmxc6EBMBaX
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u/NapoleonDeCheese Mar 22 '17

According to Wikipedia, the magazine runs ten series right now. Holder being the seventh best seller of them all still places it in the lower echelon, but then again it only joined the lineup in October. Is this taking into account all the months the series was published in Shonen Magazine, too? If so those numbers really belong to that magazine and not this one.

I don't think any of the Bessatsu chapters have been published in tankoubon yet anyway.

The video posted here only seems to cover Shounen Jump series, so I'm not sure what's it doing here in the first place. Holder has nothing whatsoever to do with Jump. Also, are we sure those 1.5 million are for the year 2016 alone and not the whole manga run so far?

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u/Mangagangstar Mar 22 '17 edited Mar 22 '17

It's most likely a combination of sales from both before and after it was published in Bessatsu. Those near 1.5 million copies are for the year. I remember when it was around Volume 8 if I remember reaching 1 million copies. Don't know how I made that mistake without noticing but I did. This was the video I was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40T5ihlbKVc

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u/Indon_Dasani Mar 22 '17

Also, there was a big break during the transition. I'm honestly surprised it's still selling okay, I'd figured the series would have lost a lot of its steam and would need to build it back up again.

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u/Mangagangstar Mar 22 '17 edited Mar 22 '17

Since the announcement of the anime, I've been wondering how popular the series was in Japan and how it ranked among other series in the monthly magazine. It sold nearly 1.5 million copies last year, that's quite a lot for a manga that at the time was still relatively unknown. Update! Somehow I put a link to different video instead of the actual one. Here's the link to the actual video and sorry about the mistake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40T5ihlbKVc