User blog comment:Udarsha45/Bleach Volumes Sales - 2014/@comment-1351982-20140604180418

Great to see Bleach volume sales stabilizing. Its important to note most series are lucky to sell over 200,000 volumes. The fact that Bleach regularly sells almost 2-3xs that amount shows that Bleach still has a rather large fan base in Japan. More importantly though, congrats to Titan, Shonen Jump made a HUGE (No pun intended) mistake when they rejected Attack on Titan, because "It didn't fit Jump's 'image.'" Toriko's numbers don't really surprise me, what does surprise me is the fact its not even in the top 50 sales. With its anime gone, its even more evident that with the exception of a small minority, nobody wanted or needed Toriko, and the sales prove them. Even at its worst volume sales, Bleach still sells nearly 2xs the volumes, despite releasing 2 less volumes per year, and is still in the top 20. I think the phrase "putting too many eggs in one basket" sums up the situation and shonen jump perfectly. I could give several reasons why there is drastic drop in sales for Toriko, but that is another debate (which I would be happy to elaborate on if asked). To be fair though, Titan selling twice the number of volumes than One Piece in the first half of 2014, may be partially due to Oda's recent illnesses, but if this keeps up, Jump is in huge trouble. Naruto and Bleach will likely be ending in the next 2-3 years, the readership clearly isn't buying the push for Toriko, I'm afraid unless something drastic happens, we will be entering in the Dark Ages for Shonen Jump. And in the age where less (physical) magazines are being sold, that is not good and could possibly be fatal.