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People need to remember that the majority of manga consumers are Japanese. Mangas tend to be far more popular than anime adaptions because they're easily digestible due to how Japanese are constantly on the go and commute throughout the day via public transit or walking whether for work, school or leisure. Japanese houses and apartments are notoriously small so people aren't sitting around all day watching television. Thus, to many, the manga is how they see a particular franchise as a whole and how many of them came to be introduced to it.