Circulation jumps from 4.5 million to 12 million
Shueisha introduced on Monday that Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari‘s Oshi no Ko manga could have over 12 million copies in circulation as of the discharge of the manga’s twelfth compiled e-book quantity on July 19. (The announcement didn’t specify if the entire contains digital copies or not.) On that date, the manga’s circulation numbers could have jumped 2.7 instances because the anime premiered about three months in the past.
The manga had 4.5 million copies in circulation in March, previous to the premiere of the manga’s tv anime adaptation. The manga doubled its circulation numbers with over 9 million copies on Might 31, slightly below two months because the anime premiered.
The anime premiered in Japan on April 12 with a 90-minute first episode. HIDIVE streamed the anime because it aired in Japan, and additionally it is streaming an English dub. The corporate stated that the anime has turn out to be the streaming service’s “#1 collection launch within the streamer’s historical past.”
The anime is getting a second season. HIDIVE will stream the season because it airs.
Akasaka (Kaguya-sama: Love is War) and Yokoyari (Scum’s Wish) launched the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump journal in April 2020. Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service is releasing the manga in English digitally. Shueisha revealed the manga’s eleventh compiled e-book quantity on March 17.
Yen Press licensed the manga, and it describes the story:
Gorou is a gynecologist and idol fan who’s in shock after his favourite star, Ai, pronounces an impromptu hiatus. Little does Gorou notice that he is about to forge a bond together with her that defies all widespread sense! Lies are an idol’s best weapon on this outrageous manga fromAka Akasaka(Kaguya-sama: Love is Battle) andMengo Yokoyari(Scum’s Want).
The manga won first place within the seventh “Subsequent Manga Awards” (Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō) in 2021, and likewise won within the Greatest Normal Manga class within the forty sixth annual Kodansha Manga awards final yr. The collection was nominated for the twenty sixth Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize final yr, and has additionally been nominated for the 14th and fifteenth Manga Taisho Awards. The manga ranked at #7 on the highest 20 checklist of manga for male readers within the 2022 version of Takarajimasha‘s Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga Is Superb!) guidebook.
