Disc sales are sluggish, but original sales are up significantly
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Since the decision to make it into an anime, the momentum of Sage’s Grandson has accelerated even further, and in March 2019, just before the TV anime aired, the total number of copies of the series exceeded 2.6 million.
A survey conducted by the d anime store, “What will you watch in the spring 2019 anime? It ranked 3rd (1st among the new releases) with very high expectations.
However, the sales of Blu-ray and DVD (discs) were unexpectedly sluggish and ended up with an average of less than 1000 copies.
Because of this, the second season of the Sage’s Grandson is being called hopeless by many people.
It is true that if the disc sales are low, it will be difficult to produce a second season.
However, with this result alone, it cannot be said that the anime adaptation of The Philosopher’s Grandson was a failure.
This is because the sales of the original work and the comic book version have increased greatly since the anime was broadcasted.
The circulation of 2.6 million copies just before the broadcast reached 4.5 million by August 2019, after the broadcast.
Several new books of both the original novel and comics were released while the anime was airing, so it is not purely due to the effect of the anime alone, but it was certainly more than enough to have a positive effect.
With the original and comics selling so well, there is no chance of a second season.
Is strength of delivery the key?
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One medium in which the Wise Man’s Grandson has shown particular strength is the distribution service.
For example, it ranks 8th for the year in 2019 (3rd in the first half of the year) in the ranking of male comics on eBookJapan, a leading e-book distribution site.
It is also ranked 8th for the year in the shonen manga category of the e-book distribution site “Mecha Comic”.
Both the original novels and comics are ranked in the top 30 for the year on “BookLive! Renta! also ranked 17th in the comics category for the year.
As for the anime, the strength of the distribution is still noticeable.
It had more than 90,000 registrations on the d-anime store and came in at the top of the spring 2019 school year.
In U-Next’s all-you-can-watch ranking, it is ranked 12th in the anime category for the year, and when compared to disc sales, the distribution is clearly doing better.
It is also doing well on the Chinese video sharing site “Biribiri Video” with about 60 million views.
The second season of the same series, “The World’s Strongest in a Commonplace Profession”, which is already in production, had 80 million views, so the difference is not that big.
Looking at these rankings and the number of views, I get the impression that the Sage’s Grandson is doing better in terms of distribution than books and discs.
Therefore, looking at the book sales rankings and disc sales alone, the likelihood of a second season being produced seems extremely low, but in reality, it is not so low as to be hopeless.
The original stock is spare. And the comic book version?
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The anime “The Wise Man’s Grandson” was aired in a single episode, and I have completed the first 4 volumes of the original work.
That’s an average pace of digestion for a wandering anime.
The latest volume, volume 12, will be released in March 2020, so the stock has been saved up for a possible third season, not two.
The comics, on the other hand, have digested up to 8 volumes in the first season, while only 13 volumes have been released as of February 2020, so we’re still not close to covering the scope of the second season.
Nevertheless, the pace of publication of the comic book version is fast, with three to four issues a year being released, so at this pace, we can expect the scope of the second season to be published in book form by the end of 2020 or early 2021.
Currently, in addition to the main story, the comic versions of the outer works “The Philosopher’s Son Extra Story”, “The Philosopher’s Son SP”, and “The Philosopher’s Son SS” are being serialized, and to my surprise, four of the works are being comicalized at the same time.
This proves that the publisher KADOKAWA is focusing on this work, and this fact can be said to be a factor to support the slight possibility of a second season.
Summary
The main character Shin says, “I did something again, didn’t I? has walked alone, and maybe some people misunderstood that this line sparked his popularity. There may be some, but the reality is that the character popularity, especially the heroines Sicily and Maria, are the wise men’s It’s not an exaggeration to say that they are the reason for the popularity of Sun.
After the first season, there’s definitely a demand for the anime, as the girls will have even more scenes to charm and show off!
