The second season could be a Netflix exclusive and web-animated!
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The first week’s sales of the first volume of “Dumbbell” discs were about 3500 copies.
Due to the aforementioned reasons, full-length gag anime doesn’t sell well on discs, and while there are many works that have good online reviews that don’t lead to results, this number in itself is a great fight.
As for the Animation Workshop anime that produced this work, the winter 2019 broadcast of “An Angel Descended on Me! That’s almost the same as the sales of the first volume.
However, as mentioned above, while Dumbbell was the talk of the town early on and increased its pre-order numbers, it was sluggish after the middle of the book, so it’s difficult for volume 1 to increase its number of copies significantly in the future, and the rate of decline from volume 2 onwards is also a concern.
Considering that Watanen has surpassed 3000 copies in all volumes, if Dumbbell’s volume 2 and onwards sell around 2000 copies, Watanen is more likely to take precedence.
The number of views on the Chinese video-sharing site Bilibiri Video is also not much different, with 30 million views for Watantan and 25 million for Dumbbell (both as of October 15, 2019).
Therefore, my impression of the possibility of a second season in its current state is that it feels like it has potential if it’s just the sales of the first volume, but considering all the circumstances, it might be a bit tougher to get on terrestrial television.
One thing that has an advantage over Wataten is the sales of the original comics.
Dumbbell was a long hit as the sales of all volumes of the series increased in July, when the anime began to air.
It’s not an explosive growth, but it can be seen as one of the good news.
Also, just like this title, Kengan Ashura (Kengan Omega), which is serialized in the back Sunday and has the same author as this title, is a Netflix exclusive web anime, but there is no chance that Dumbbell will follow suit and be distributed as a web anime after the second season …….
When it comes to Netflix exclusive anime, there is a strong impression of the “SF”, “dark fantasy” and “fighting” genres that seem to be popular overseas, but in recent years, there have been some anime that are not bound by the image of “anime specialized for overseas audiences” or “anime that is different from terrestrial broadcasting”, such as the new “Ψ Startup Arc” that was broadcasted on terrestrial television before and is distributed exclusively on Netflix.
With this kind of precedent, there is a good chance that the second season will be a Wb anime.
Dumbell shares a worldview with Kengan Ashura, although the style of the show is very different from Kengan Ashura, and many of Dumbell’s characters are relatives or related to Kengan Ashura’s characters.
Taking over and distributing the show afterwards would have the advantage of hoping that fans who have become fans of Kengan Ashura might continue to watch …….
Even if a terrestrial sequel isn’t possible, Dumbell has a way to develop the series in a web-based anime in the future.
There’s enough stock for one cooler
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The first season of Dumbbell’s anime digested up to four volumes of the original comics.
Episode 8: “What would you do if you were in distress? Only 6 volumes of episodes, but the boxing stories and other stories from volumes 4-5 have not yet been videoed, so in terms of quantity, about 4 volumes is fine.
Therefore, it would only need to be released for 8 volumes to make one cool volume.
Dumbbell’s original comics have been released to just 8 volumes as of October 2019, so it’s safe to say that we’ve already accumulated enough stock to do a second season.
Even if they do develop a second season on the web anime, it will basically be made in a single cool episode (10-13 episodes), and since the first season of Kengan Ashura was 12 episodes long (the second season started on October 31), we can expect it to be the same way.
So there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the stock aspect of the show.
Summary
Even if a second season on terrestrial television is tough, having the option of a Netflix exclusive is huge!
I don’t think Dogakobo has ever produced a web-based anime before, so I can’t say it’s likely, but it’s not zero.
However, even if a second season does come to fruition, it may be a little while longer since Video Workshop has already announced three anime adaptations, including “Ikebukuro West Gate Park” in 2020.
