Dex-chan lover
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I was scrolling through Reddit when I stumbled upon this manga and decided to give it a look. Big mistake.
I checked the Shoseki Ranking to see how well the physical copies are selling, and the answer is not well at all. Only volume 1 managed to hit a weekly ranking, which lets us estimate its sales. Released on 2024-10-24, volume 1 sold roughly 1,342 copies in its first week, and that was it. Volume 2, out on 2025-01-23, only showed up in daily rankings on its first two days, but since only weekly rankings allow for sales estimates, it’s impossible to gauge its sales. Volume 3, released 2025-05-29, had the same pattern, just a brief appearance in daily rankings on the first two days.
So yeah, it is a bit of a mystery why this series keeps getting published, at least when looking at physical sales. Maybe digital sales are strong enough to justify it, but if physical sales are that low, why bother printing copies at all? It is puzzling.
I checked the Shoseki Ranking to see how well the physical copies are selling, and the answer is not well at all. Only volume 1 managed to hit a weekly ranking, which lets us estimate its sales. Released on 2024-10-24, volume 1 sold roughly 1,342 copies in its first week, and that was it. Volume 2, out on 2025-01-23, only showed up in daily rankings on its first two days, but since only weekly rankings allow for sales estimates, it’s impossible to gauge its sales. Volume 3, released 2025-05-29, had the same pattern, just a brief appearance in daily rankings on the first two days.
So yeah, it is a bit of a mystery why this series keeps getting published, at least when looking at physical sales. Maybe digital sales are strong enough to justify it, but if physical sales are that low, why bother printing copies at all? It is puzzling.
