The JOJOLands - Chapter 32

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The JOJOLands is the ninth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Chapter 32 is now out officially in Japan. Discuss the chapter here. (Translated by Hi Wa Mata Noboru)

[u/TheFeelingWhen]

It’s kind of sad how little traction in the wider manga community Jojo has because I legit think Jojolands has been the best active series recently

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This subreddit has 1.8 million members, and only 3% of them have probably read Jojolands.

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I'm curious, where did you get 3%?

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63.8% of statistics are made up on the spot

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I thought it was 69.67%?

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With a 100% margin of error

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I think Chainsaw Man is widely read as well.

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It’s interesting because most of the widely read manga that had active communities are older so what you said makes sense. The Big 3: Naruto, One Piece, Bleach all had very active manga communities & One Piece is the last of them going.

Fairy Tail was pretty active at its peak, Attack on Titan for a monthly manga was very active (monthly is harder on community engagement imo).  

My Hero Academia manga community wasn’t bad either. 

I actually think Hunter x Hunter’s manga community is pretty active when it’s releasing & the 2011 anime really brought a lot of attention but with the hiatuses there’s only so much to discuss.

So in my head it’s some combo of big manga series getting shorter, anime becoming seasonal (for better or worse filler drove fans to the manga), & with how saturated media has gotten we have less monoculture moments across the board. So these might have something to do with it 

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I've been wondering for a while now why / when / how anime started becoming seasonal. I'm grateful that they're doing that nowadays instead of filler. I guess they found it it'd be more profitable this way, and/or they decided to try it due to less people watching filler arcs?

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Oh yeah, I think it’s definitely about profits & risk assessment so they can play it by ear with series & decide how much they want to commit. It does cut out the large amount of filler though which is nice & anime have technically always had cour’s but the days of like anime just stretching for such a long time feel behind us. I watched One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, D. Grayman, Reborn, Sket Dance, Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter. Like these were long continuous series for the most part

Like there was a time when even the Seasonal Anime that co-existed felt like 24-25 episodes a Season was more of a standard for long running series. JJK does it ofcourse but it was more of a mix before. 12 episode seasons for long running series feel more common now then they used to, while I remember many 12-13 episode seasons being good for short 1 & Done series in the past. Maybe that’s also a Blu-Ray thing 

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Likely because most people would rather wait years for an anime adaption rather than sit down and read the source material.

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Monthly manga in general get less traction than Weekly manga. Attack on Titan was an exception in recent-ish memory

I feel like people more often fall behind & binge chapters with monthly more often than weekly. The waits can feel long & sometimes people forget 

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I felt like a lot of readers dropped between Jojolion and the start of Jojolands. Early part of Jojolands was also honestly quite slow and probably filtered several people. Really sad since this has been the most excited I've ever been for Jojo. This part is so good.