Sorry, I think I've crossed my wires with Anime Cossumption and some article saying that the Us was the second biggest market (for Kodansha)
L'image d'illustration est une photo du magasin Kinokuniya à Chicago La France a longtemps été décrite comme LE plus gros consommateur de mangas, juste après le Japon bien évidemment.
www.9emeart.fr
That would make more sense.
It should be noted that even in the NPD article I shared, they did say that manga sales were booming.
The manga numbers are also really big compared to before.
Like the numbers were so bad that total comic book sales numbers were like a fraction of what manga sold in France.
Looking at old articles, it was like doom and gloom in the early 10s.
Like 2014 Nintendo doom&gloom.
Interestingly it's seems normal that the merchandising market in France is lower than in the US while the manga sales are not.
I mean goodies and stuffs weren't really pushed all that hard outside of few places.
From what I've been told though, the goodies market is booming like never before.
Old retro gaming stores are closing while anime merchandising stores are expanding.
Which again makes sense as publishers begin to provide good ways to access their back catalog and owning old games is less interesting outside of collecting.
On the other hand, goodies are evergreen as anime/gaming and Japanese culture get even more entrenched in the country (people who were kids when anime boom happened in the 80s/90s are now adults with money to spare) and since there's little stigma socially to participating in the manga culture (unlike the US for example).
That leads to more people wanting to get statues and stuffs while before they either didn't have the means or weren't that interested in that kind of stuffs.
And I mean it with the no stigma for anime in France.
If you watch anime and you're vocal about it you won't have the stigma of shutin otakus spouting nazis talking points.
You're just like anime.
2019 graph
19 million volumes sold in 2019.
And 2020 should be way up too.
I left France in 2014 so that totally explains the 2014 dip but I do not explain the soaring since then.
Jokes aside, it's super interesting to see the market being that healthy.
Apparently they managed the competition with digital like a charm.
You shouldnt bet on your firstborne for such banal things especially you are wrong xD Thinking a 500 dollar machine is outselling the best years of consoles like Wii/DS/Switch in 2 months.
There is online hype and bubbles....and there is reality.
That doesn't even make sense when we're talking about 2020 for the Switch. PS5 would have needed to have some incredible exclusive and a lower price to manage this even in a launch year.
www.npd.com
www.journaldujapon.com
