Negima isn't more popular in America

Comments

• Komodin

  2011-03-19 03:07:06

  The Sonic Series Wiki Curator of TvTropes

  ...?!
• Nyktos

  2011-03-19 03:12:34 edited 2011-03-19 03:12:42

  a little muffled

  I can't imagine why a manga with a premise revolving around a class of high-school girls who have a crush on a ten-year-old isn't popular in the US...
  
  Also, Naruto and Bleach have the anime, both of which air on TV in the US, to act as advertisement for the manga.
  
  Also, Fullmetal Alchemist is one of the bestselling manga in the US, so it's not as though good shounen gets ignored, but again, that one had a popular anime -- in fact, two of them now -- that aired on American TV as well.
  
• Tachikaze

  2011-03-19 03:13:38

  ...They're pretty damn different series. At least, going by the 18 volumes of Negima and all of Naruto I've read.
  
• [Deleted User]

  2011-03-19 03:13:39 edited 2012-07-22 18:04:20

  …
• Chagen

  2011-03-19 03:14:46

  [tɕagɛn]

  Negima does apparently sell well enough--it's apparently one of the few ones that can put a dent in Naruto's numbers...but it's not popular enough.

  
  

  Also, it's more about fighting and epic magical shit than any type of romance.
• Nyktos

  2011-03-19 03:15:27

  a little muffled

  Oh, and there's also the fact that the first couple volumes of Negima are famously not great and totally different from the later stuff. People who don't already know of the series are likely to assume it stays like that.
  
• DYRE

  2011-03-19 03:16:23

  Shōnen isn't a genre.  You didn't actually say it was, but whatever.  You probably implied it.
  
• Chagen

  2011-03-19 03:17:05 edited 2011-03-19 03:17:19

  [tɕagɛn]

  ^^Which is why I will preach it's virutes more loudly and obnoxiously than a southern Christian Pastor.
• [Deleted User]

  2011-03-19 03:18:24 edited 2012-07-22 18:04:13

  …
• Chagen

  2011-03-19 03:19:33

  [tɕagɛn]

  What the hell are you doing?
• RocketDude

  2011-03-19 03:22:37 edited 2011-03-19 03:23:12

  Poot dispenser here

  ^Grabbin' Pills.
  
  (EDIT: Sorry, that comment just made me think of Left 4 Dead.)
  
• Komodin

  2011-03-19 03:23:14

  The Sonic Series Wiki Curator of TvTropes

  Which is why I will preach it's virutes more loudly and obnoxiously than a southern Christian Pastor.

  
  

  ...which will, in turn, cause more people to be turned off by it in retaliation. This should go without saying, but if there's anything one should refrain from doing when trying to convince someone to get into their favorite work, it's to act like a badgering fantwit about it.
• [Deleted User]

  2011-03-19 03:23:44 edited 2012-07-22 18:04:07

  …
• RocketDude

  2011-03-19 03:24:04 edited 2011-03-19 03:24:18

  Poot dispenser here

  ^^Funny, I sometimes expected to be called out on how much I plugged Command & Conquer.
  
• Nyktos

  2011-03-19 03:24:46 edited 2011-03-19 03:25:37

  a little muffled

  @DYRE: Normally I'd be the first to point that out, but in this case the complaint still makes sense if you read "shounen" as "manga for teenage boys" rather than "Dragon Ball clones".
  
• Vorpy

  2011-03-19 03:49:49

  ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭

  The creators of Negima actually need to stop fucking around and start advertising the series in the states then, and actually getting around to making it as publicized as Naruto.
  
• Deboss

  2011-03-19 05:48:17

  I blame the terrible terrible quality of the scans.
  
• ninjaclown

  2011-03-19 06:28:34

  I blame the slow start.
  
• Tnophelia

  2011-03-19 07:36:20

  I blame the fact that Naruto is more interesting.
  
• Nyktos

  2011-03-19 12:53:16

  a little muffled

  I blame society!
  
• Noimporta

  2011-03-19 13:26:14

  It's the economy, stupid.
• Komodin

  2011-03-19 13:31:26

  The Sonic Series Wiki Curator of TvTropes

  I blame Canada!
• ninjaclown

  2011-03-19 14:48:17

  OH NO YOU DIDN'T
  
• DYRE

  2011-03-19 15:00:53

  Don't blame the quality of the scans, the slow start, Naruto being more interesting, society, the economy stupid, or Canada.  Blame yourself or God.
• Vorpy

  2011-03-19 19:11:43 edited 2011-03-19 19:11:50

  ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭

  Except it is not God's fault because you know, he's kind of too dead to have it be his fault.
  
  Owait I get it. Negima would have only been good if he was alive.
  
• DYRE

  2011-03-19 19:36:03

  ...I just wanted to quote Final Fantasy Tactics... (sort of)
  
• Vorpy

  2011-03-19 19:39:02

  ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭

  It's also a quote from Death Note and Higurashi.
  
• DYRE

  2011-03-19 20:11:57 edited 2011-03-19 20:12:08

  It's a quote from a lot of things, I'm sure.  I doubt Final Fantasy Tactics was the first to say it.
  
  Though either way it did say it before Death Note and Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni were made.
  
• Vorpy

  2011-03-19 20:31:58

  ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭

  Don't know, I do not play FFT
  
• Tnophelia

  2011-03-19 20:47:58

  Negima sucks though. All of the girls are just horny boys with boobs essentially. It's like the author has no idea how females are IRL.