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[Nacchi]

If my sources don't lie, then Matsuena's new series Tokiwa Kitareri!! is going to end next week on June 7.

It sounds very plausible seeing that they've just defeated the final boss.

 

Matsuena('s staff) hasn't said anything about it, yet.

 

I wonder if he's going back to Kenichi after that or if he'll start something new again. I hope there will be some kind of announcement about his future projects in the Shonen Sunday issue next week.

 

Will Tokiwa meet Kenichi at the Naoki Award ceremony? The author kind of hinted at it in Kenichi's last chapter.

[makenker]

@Nacchi where do you read the manga? I like it, but I can't find any chapters past 30

[Nacchi]

@makenker I'm reading it in Japanese. If that's okay with you I can post links or direct you to a story where you can buy the digital version of the manga and Shonen Sunday.

[makenker]

@Nacchi that would be cool.

[Nacchi]

@makenker If you have a credit card and know how to operate Japanese stores, I would recommend http://www.ebookjapan.jp for the volumes and weekly shonen sunday.

 

Other possibility: the Spanish facebook group always posts the newest chapter fun shonen sunday https://www.facebook...Tokiwa.Kitareri
I haven't checked how far back their dls go. Let me know if you're missing some chapters.

[Nacchi]

And... it's over. The last chapter was rather uneventful, you could almost say it was bland.

Sunday didn't even give Mr. Matsuena a color page for the series' end and there are no details whatsoever about a new serialization - just the standard "Thanks for reading. Please look forward to Shun Matsuena's next work."

Volume 11 will be out this month and the remaining volumes 12 & 13 will go on sale together next month. The manga got the common "just let it be over"-treatment that axed series usually get.

I really hope that his next work will be announced soon and that it will turn out better for him than Tokiwa did.

Just for comparison:
Tokiwa's sales http://tokiwa-kitare...i/Manga/Ranking
Kenichi's sales http://kenichi.wikia...wiki/Sales_Data

[Nacchi]

Some more sales data. Someone linked http://book-rank.net and they give better numbers than Shoseki ranking or Oricon. The numbers are not 100% accurate, because they don't get data from all stores and they don't count digital sales, but at least it's something.
 
Tokiwa Kitareri!!
 
Volume 01: 67,758 copies
Volume 02: 53,747
Volume 03: 47,338
Volume 04: 42,202
Volume 05: 43,527
Volume 06: 39,389
Volume 07: 39,221
Volume 08: 35,346
Volume 09: 30,845
Volume 10: 30,666
Volume 11: 26,108
Volume 12: 23,943
Volume 13: 25,268

They also have sales data for the last 4 Kenichi volumes.
58: 131,133 copies
59: 149,128
60: 148,174
61: 161,651

I think this is my new favourite website. Oricon only counts manga in the top 50. Shoseki counts the top 500, but only tells you the ranking and an extremely rough estimate how many copies were sold.

[Tessaiga]

You can find out information on sales of Kenichi volumes?

Edited by Tessaiga, July 10 2018 - 05:02 AM.

[Nacchi]

All information I have is already in the two posts above yours.

[Tessaiga]

sorry, I'm blind))