Negima popularity dropping rapidly but not
3rd June
We’re in the classmate arc now and the popularity of the manga is currently dropping rapidly in the reader surveys for the “pick 5 manga that were interesting” category. If you’re enjoying the current classmate arc right now, you’re probably one of the core fans for negima, which is one out of every ten shounen magazine readers.
This number is based on that negima is still #1 on shounen magazine for the “pick the one most interesting manga” category in reader surveys, and approximately 10% of the votes go to negima for that category.
Basically, if one out of every ten readers will strongly support negima, the manga will not fall from 1st place. But if that number goes down, it can be expected that the tankoubon sales will drop too. (the tankoubon are mostly bought by core fans)
But the problem here is with the “5 interesting manga” category, there are two ways to look at this, one is “it’s okay to ignore this to a certain extent since it doesn’t affect tankoubon sales, but in exchange the core fans should be kept entertained”, and the other is “it should be better to get votes to a certain extent without lowering the votes in the ‘most interesting’ category”. Normally the latter is what most will go for.
Via: Akamatsu’s diary
Doesn’t say what he’s going to do now. I guess getting votes in the “5 interesting” category would mean being able to get new readers so the best way around it would definitely be the latter.
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