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You seem very knowledgeable about these things. In your opinion, what do you think of its sales? Good or bad? If good then how good is it?



I'm just guessing but maybe the two-year hiatus is one of the reasons why the sales dropped? You seem very knowledgeable about these things. In your opinion, what do you think of its sales? Good or bad? If good then how good is it?I'm just guessing but maybe the two-year hiatus is one of the reasons why the sales dropped?



I'd describe it as doing very well. Nothing more, nothing less.



The almost 2 year hiatus won't have helped, but there was the EX volume in between which might have dampened the effect somewhat. It's also worth noting that the entire market is seeing sales reported by Oricon as perhaps 20-25% lower than in 2015. This isn't due to a rapid decline in the light novel industry, but a result of the growth in the proportion of the market made up by e-books, which aren't reported by Oricon. This then probably accounts for at least half of the entire drop from the last volume to this one.



Maybe because it didn't have fanservice or maybe the fillers in the early episodes struck as boring to many people. It is sad because the LN is pretty damn interesting too. I really am just hoping the author will be able to properly wrap it up without him rushing it to its end because it got axed.





The latter half of that first sentence is the more likely one. People tend to overestimate the impact of the amount of fanservice in a series on its success in boosting source material. Indeed, the biggest successes are almost always series with little or no fanservice. Just look at the biggest sales boosts from anime over the last five years. Yes, there was NGNL, but that's surrounded by Overlord, Youjo Senki, Re:Zero, KonoSuba, OreGairu, YouJitsu, Maou-sama and DanMachi (in no particular order). In terms of physical size of boost (although not proportionate to previous sales) you could add Mahouka to that list as well. Yes, some of them have the odd bit of fanservice, but many of them don't, and none of them are fanservice heavy series.



It's worth noting, though, that the anime boost for Tokyo Ravens did turn it from a 15k seller to a 30k one, which is almost the same level of boost as SaeKano got, and SaeKano is usually regarded as a success in terms of sales boosts.



And I can say with absolute confidence that Tokyo Ravens is not going to get axed by the publisher any time soon. I'd describe it as doing very well. Nothing more, nothing less.The almost 2 year hiatus won't have helped, but there was the EX volume in between which might have dampened the effect somewhat. It's also worth noting that the entire market is seeing sales reported by Oricon as perhaps 20-25% lower than in 2015. This isn't due to a rapid decline in the light novel industry, but a result of the growth in the proportion of the market made up by e-books, which aren't reported by Oricon. This then probably accounts for at least half of the entire drop from the last volume to this one.The latter half of that first sentence is the more likely one. People tend to overestimate the impact of the amount of fanservice in a series on its success in boosting source material. Indeed, the biggest successes are almost always series with little or no fanservice. Just look at the biggest sales boosts from anime over the last five years. Yes, there was NGNL, but that's surrounded by Overlord, Youjo Senki, Re:Zero, KonoSuba, OreGairu, YouJitsu, Maou-sama and DanMachi (in no particular order). In terms of physical size of boost (although not proportionate to previous sales) you could add Mahouka to that list as well. Yes, some of them have the odd bit of fanservice, but many of them don't, and none of them are fanservice heavy series.It's worth noting, though, that the anime boost for Tokyo Ravens did turn it from a 15k seller to a 30k one, which is almost the same level of boost as SaeKano got, and SaeKano is usually regarded as a success in terms of sales boosts.And I can say with absolute confidence that Tokyo Ravens is not going to get axed by the publisher any time soon. BBCode Modified by kuuderes_shadow, Oct 5, 2017 6:15 AM

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There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do. Bestselling light novel volumes of the year all time* (and more in the same club including weekly series ranks etc).There is no such thing as shit taste. Only idiots who think everyone should have the same taste as they do.