Pandemic- caused institution closures saw Japanese kids find the appeal of the 50-year-old preferred comic collection Doraemon, which verified a blockbuster this year, according to its author.
More than 5 million comics as well as various other magazines including the robot feline were published in the year to November, Shogakukan Inc stated. Of the 45 quantities of the comics, Volume 1 logged sales of greater than 11,000 duplicates in March alone, a single-month document in the 21st century.
In Japan, many primary, jr high as well as secondary schools were shut in between March as well as May because of a rise in coronavirus situations.
During this duration, the nation’s posting market saw vigorous sales of kids’s publications as well as comics, with Doraemon a certain favored, the Tokyo- based author stated in a news release.
Adding to the appeal was the issuance in December in 2015 of “Volume 0,” a scandal sheet which contained 6 variants of the initial Doraemon episode, which was attracted by manga musician Fujiko F Fujio (1933-1996), the firm stated.
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