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More than 2 hours before opening at the Fukui bookstore
December 5, 2020 7:10 am
Customers looking for final Devil’s Blade volume = December 4, Super Cavos Shin Ninomiya Store, 5-chome, Ninomiya, Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture
The final volume of Seharu Gotoge’s popular “Demon’s Blade” manga, which caused a social phenomenon, was released on December 4, and fans who had been waiting for it in Fukui prefecture bookstores bought it one after another. .. According to the publisher, Shueisha, volume 23 has issued 3.95 million copies of the first edition and the cumulative circulation (including the electronic version) of the first volume has exceeded 120 million.
At the Super Cavos Shinjinomiya store in 5-chome, Ninomiya, Fukui City, some people line up in front of the store after 7:00 am, more than two hours before the store opens. More than 30 people are said to have been “totally focused” when the store opened at 9:30.
There are more than 1,000 books in stock at the store. Assuming the speed of sales, we did not establish a special corner and sold it in front of the cash register on the first and second floors. One employee (43), who has been in charge of comics for about five years, seems surprised that “the number of arrivals and the (sales) momentum so far is the first time.” It is said that more than 200 books were sold in less than two hours after opening.
A 30-year-old city clerk came out of the store with a smile and said, “I’ve been looking forward to this day. I came to buy it before work.”
Serialization in the “Weekly Shonen Jump” manga magazine was completed in May. Volume 23 contains 14 pages of unpublished scenes drawn by Mr. Gotoge and is attracting attention. In the final volume, Mr. Gotoge thanked the readers.
At “SHIBUYA TSUTAYA” in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, which prepared more than 3,000 books, about 30 people lined up before the store opened and headed for the stacked shelves without moving their eyes. At the large “Maruzen Marunouchi Main Store” bookstore in Chiyoda Ward, more than 70 people, including salaried workers in suits, lined up before the store opened, and at the same time the store opened, a long line formed in the shop. sales floor.
The morning edition of 5 national newspapers on the 4th has 4 pages of commemorative announcements. On each paper there were three main characters with the words “Dawn. My thoughts are immortal.” I also collected the name of each character.
The anime film “Theatrical Version” Devil’s Blade “Infinite Train Edition”, which is being released, was also a huge success, and is a factor in increasing book sales.
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