about the manga selling well or not... the whole business model does not make sense to me. it's split into volumes that are way too small and incomplete on their own, priced higher than huge collections of real literature. by the time it's finished (which sometimes may be a decade or so, if it ever is), it costs 5x, 10x or even 20x times what is reasonable to me. i still can't believe there's people that would actually buy such things. and it's not just manga this applies to, "light" novels costing 10x what real novel do and anime "boxsets" that have something as ridiculous as only 3 or 4 episodes per disk are just as big a mystery for me.