>>281972516
>Dragon Ball was said to have made up of 85% of Jump's sales in the Golden Age in 2002
>Dragon Ball was said to have made a revenue of $30 billion dollars in 2004, its current value could be around $45 (lowball) or $50 billion (highball) right now, putting it in the Top 10 highest grossing media franchises of all time, next to Pokemon, Hello Kitty, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh, Mickey Mouse, etc. It's the only shounen manga-born IP in the global Top 10
>Oricon confirms that the Dragon Ball manga has sold 350M in 2008
>17 years has passed and that means Dragon Ball's sales has only gone up since theb, it should be around 450-475M if not 490M right now
>Divide 450-475 or 495 with 42 and you get an average sales per volume of 10.71M (lowball) or 11.30M/11.78M (highball)
>Dragon Ball has the highest per volume sales in manga history but Shueisha hates Dragon Ball and wants to sabotage it because it's TOO big
You can talk shit when One Piece actually gets good games on the same level as Budokai and FighterZ, until then you're stuck with musou slop and Demon Slayer is stuck with a shitty Naruto Storm clone.