Oh, look. More revisionist cope.
>>280089118
>the thing already blew up by vol 4
Nah. Vol 4 did 21,815 in its first week. You know what that is? Tha's mid-tier filler arc numbers. That's 'maybe we’ll give it a color page next month' energy and 'your editor is sweating' territory.

By contrast:
>MHA vol 1: ~137k in month 1
>JJK vol 1: ~28k first month, 100k by vol 3
>DS vol 4: barely cracked 22k week one
That's not 'exploding,' that’s 'existing.' At best. DS was on life support until the anime gave it CPR, steroids, and a Red Bull IV drip. Even industry insiders like Nakano admits that, lol.
>>280089199
Bro, everything in the top 50 ranks on Shoseki. That bar is so low, 'barely selling' series show up. That's like saying 'my car's engine light isn't on so it must be a Ferrari.' Shit, even Black Clover showed up weekly back then and it was getting clowned on regularly.
Shoseki rankings without context are meaningless. You need volume of sales, not just presence.
>>280089148
False. Vol 1-6 were crawling in the 10-60k zone per week
Not even breaking 100k total in month 1 until vol 7+
DS didn'r crack 1M in print until after anime announcement thats confirmed by every Jump insider report.
>Regarding the series' sudden huge success, Weekly Shōnen Jump editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Nakano stated that the manga sales shot up straight after its anime adaptation finished, explaining that a large number of people watched the series through streaming services after it ended rather than watching it weekly. Nakano also stated that currently is harder for a manga series running in the magazine to become a hit, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba despite having started in February 2016, did not became a major hit until late 2019, adding that its "success hinged on word of mouth generated after the anime's run".
The 1M+ growth wave didn't hit till way after vol 6, and the nuclear blast didn't go off until ep 19 dropped and manga sales tripled overnight