>>280203111
You cross referenced numbers from your third world shack, Spic lmao. You're talking about MHA and Ochaco like this is a Tumblr shipping war, which already tells me you've completely run out of brain cells and arguments. Let me bring it back to reality for you:
>MHA got picked up by Legendary Pictures for a live-action movie. That's Hollywood, not some quick anime cash-grab tour like your $4M recap movies
>One Piece got a full-on Netflix live-action adaptation that topped charts globally. Not Japan-only, not recap-only full global push. And it's already confirmed for season 2
Meanwhile Demon Slayer is still dragging it out with 3 movies for one arc and rebroadcasting Mugen Train for the 100th time because it ran out of content. Pandemic boom ended and now it's milk-the-corpse time. When the anime that keeps this series on life support ends, the franchise dies.

BTW, Demon Slayer's $9B isn't verified or audited (Wikipedia admits themselves their chart is flagged for misrepresentation "this is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness"), and nearly all of it was made in a 2-year window during the anime pandemic boom. lol

>>279623096
>All publishers do this, and it is proof that the "slow and steady sales" bullshit you keep touting has no standing
>All publishers do this
No, you dumbass. All publishers recycle unsold, stagnant inventory, and it's often from failed series, overestimates, or decade-old volumes. That Kodansha tweet doesn't say anything about OP. It shows how the industry handles shelf decay. Shueisha still keeps printing OP because:
>retailers keep ordering it
>older volumes get anime boosts (Gear 5, Red, Netflix)
>it sells in bundles, gift editions, anniversary box sets
And it's consistently in the Oricon yearly top 10. If volumes were stacking unsold, they'd scale it back further, which they did, from 4M to 3.5M to 3.2M. That's called adjusting forecasts, not failing them.
>Strawmanning again.
No, you're just mad I'm reading your bad arguments back to you. You claimed Shueisha sabotaged DS. You claimed they rigged Oricon. You claimed they waste millions to 's-save Oda’s face!!' You have zero proof and now you're crying when your own conspiracy gets picked apart. That’s not a strawman, that's just your dumbass logic being repeated back to you verbatim. Get fucked, you loser.
>Another sign they use the initial print for promotion
Yeah, because high first prints ARE a flex when they're justified. Vol 100 was part of a milestone push, celebrated across all channels (manga, anime, film). It makes sense that they used the big number in PR. But here's where you implode again: they printed 3.5M when OP was surging from Netflix, Wano climax hype, and Red previews, then they scaled back to 3M in future volumes as demand tapered.

They never required emergency reprints because retailers still took those units and cleared stock. So no, it’s not 'irrational.' It's measured hype based on historical performance, not cope like your headcanon.