(CR) Kanojo, Okarishimasu (Rent-A-Girlfriend) Season 3

[Stark700]

Kanojo, Okarishimasu Season 3 (Rent-A-Girlfriend) announced today

Source

https://kanokari-official.com/news/1684/

[Infinite Zenith]

It's somewhat impressive that they're pushing forwards with a third season of Kanojo, Okarishimasu: were sales for the first season that strong?

[WingedAccelerator]

Terrible news, but I knew already that my luck is shit. Fukou da!

In the future some of you will encounter comments like "the best arc is getting adapted" and stuff like that, but I assure you that a Kanojo, Okarishimasu best arc if that's even possible, is still nothing to write home about. Prepare how they will try to pretend that suddenly this is a completely different show and Kazuya is the best protagonist ever with character development.

If I'm generous, it's probably the least amount of facepalm worthy moments that are gonna get adapted. The least doesn't mean it won't trigger viewers at all though.

Originally Posted by Infinite Zenith

It's somewhat impressive that they're pushing forwards with a third season of Kanojo, Okarishimasu: were sales for the first season that strong?

Not really. It got a small boost that faded in a year or so. It's the merchandise and streaming money that is supposed to be really good. Screw the Chizuru simps and their life-sized figures.

To be honest, I'm more puzzled at Kanojo mo Kanojo Season 2 and Seo's manga getting an anime before the Amagami shrine maidens. Those have to be some sort of influence things over actual sales and interest in the franchises.

[Frontier]

I really enjoyed the season 2 finale so I'm happy to be getting more .

[chopitos_93]

Originally Posted by WingedAccelerator

To be honest, I'm more puzzled at Kanojo mo Kanojo Season 2 and Seo's manga getting an anime before the Amagami shrine maidens. Those have to be some sort of influence things over actual sales and interest in the franchises.

Well, Megami Cafe started a bit before than Amagami, and the sales of both are more or less the same. It's only a matter of time that Amagami and Kuroiwa Medaka get anime announcements seeing how successful (especially in streaming) is the romcom genre lately, though.

[Kuroageha]

Movie arc let's gooooo

[stray]

At this rate we might actually get the 218 meme animated.

[ryllharu]

Originally Posted by WingedAccelerator

Terrible news, but I knew already that my luck is shit. Fukou da!
[snip]
Not really. It got a small boost that faded in a year or so. It's the merchandise and streaming money that is supposed to be really good. Screw the Chizuru simps and their life-sized figures.

Keep lying to yourself that the series isn't popular. Everyone complains and hates on the series, but so few actually drop it.

[WingedAccelerator]

It's not licensed for simulcast, so overseas readers won't matter. The Japanese sales still declined to pre-anime levels. Yet, some delusional fanboys think this is the best selling romcom of all time. LMAO.

I follow this weekly for about 2 years now. I kept believing it's ending or close to ending on multiple occassions, so I kept up with it. Since I despise the main pair more than I despise all the other characters, I can hope the author wanks them enough for myself to let it go once and for all in the near future. The weekly venting sessions are still fun, the only worth of this. It's like a Seo manga comment section 10 years later.

[Kuroageha]

Originally Posted by stray

At this rate we might actually get the 218 meme animated.

I think that would take a 5th season.

[WingedAccelerator]

A 4th season would be enough for that.

This season showed that they are willing to speed up the pacing significantly if it means reaching an ending point that is the most suitable. Sumi's date adapted 6-7 chapters in one episode. Several episodes adapted 5 chapters. The most likely ending point for Season 3 is Chapter 167 or somewhere around or after that.

[Infinite Zenith]

Originally Posted by ryllharu

Keep lying to yourself that the series isn't popular. Everyone complains and hates on the series, but so few actually drop it.

Got any hard numbers for this?

[ryllharu]

Originally Posted by Infinite Zenith

Got any hard numbers for this?

It does very well.

It has over 10 million in total sales 9 months ago, which despite protests to the contrary, put it in very high rankings. That's not far behind many other very popular series historically.

This chart is from 9 months ago (sorry, this group doesn't update this series' charts anymore)
https://twitter.com/Josu_ke/status/1...644483/photo/1

Volume 23-27 covers the extremely long arc. And volume 27 was the 13th most sold series the week it came out.

(edit: For context, a similar long-winded and equally trashy series, To Love Ru (both original run and Darkness) have 16 million copies with 36 total volumes. Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle hit 20M at 27 volumes. Quintessential Quintuplets, which is obscenely popular, sold 16M with 14 volumes.)

[FlareKnight]

I'm not particularly surprised this keeps going. Did try to give it a shot and just didn't find anything to grab onto. But it does well enough and onward to a third season it goes. At least people having a good time get more of it.

[WingedAccelerator]

Originally Posted by Infinite Zenith

Got any hard numbers for this?

I will give you the hard numbers.

This manga is a great example of quantity over quality.

How can 13th most sold a week mean it does really well, when it doesn't go against the obvious best sellers from Shueisha or other publishers because of the release schedule? The latest volume sold 62,516 copies in 10 days. No ranking on the 3rd week of the volume. It blew the anime boost in a year and that boost wasn't gargantuan either.

Nisekoi in 2013 sold: 1,542,417 copies total.
Nisekoi in 2014 sold: 3,816,372 copies total.
Nisekoi in 2015 sold: 3,199,971 copies total.
Nisekoi in 2016 sold: 1,914,613 copies total.

Kaguya-sama in 2019 sold: 4,096,492 copies total.
Kaguya-sama in 2020 sold: 3,185,196 copies total.
Kaguya-sama in 2021 sold: 1,874,640 copies total.

5toubun no Hanayome in 2019 sold: 5,895,000 copies total.
5toubun no Hanayome in 2020 sold: 6,145,591 copies total.
5toubun no Hanayome in 2021 sold: 2,369,765 copies total.

Kanojo, Okarishimasu in 2020 sold: 2,497,329 copies total.
Kanojo, Okarishimasu in 2021 sold: 1,460,043 copies total.

Given the tendency, by the time Season 3 airs it won't even sell 500,000 copies in a year. Even though it sells 5 volumes in an Oricon year. If they are greedy, for this years' chart, it can even have 6 volumes.

[ryllharu]

Nisekoi is barely outselling it at relative volume count and it was a WSJ flagship series, and Weekly Shonen Magazine's circulation is slightly greater than half of WSJ.

I can't stress enough the current absurd popularity of Quintessential Quintuplets (5toubun no Hanayome), which was Weekly Shonen Magazine's flagship title. It was the 3rd best-selling manga period at its peak.

You're trying to compare it to titles that should be or are extraordinarily popular, and only serving to prove that Kanojo, Okarishimasu should be considered in the same league.

Success of a manga is often measured in the 100s of thousands. Ribon Magazine on the shoujo side isn't even selling 150,000 copies anymore.

But thank you for backing up my point in your attempt to undermine it.

[EroKing]

Do the manga and merchandise sale ultimately even matter when it comes to making an anime adaptation most of the times? Sure the money is nice but shows like Ikkitousen and Queen's Blade got multiple seasons and OVAs, yet we still haven't gotten a second one for No Game, No Life.

[WingedAccelerator]

^^Forgot to mention in my last reply, but circulation number is not the total sales of a work, so stop spreading misinformation.

10 million copies of it were distributed, but not all of them were purchased. The math is easy. 2021 was its 4th year of serialization. If its 3rd and 4th years of sales, which were the peak of its sales, won't even give you 4 million copies sold combined, the 1st and 2nd years certainly won't have 6 million copies sold combined. The real number is somewhere between 4.5-6 million copies sold by 2021, which puts it for an avarage between 187-250k per volume. Maybe I'm generous even to suggest that 6 million total by 4 years considering early low interest.

Matter of fact, it was never a romcom titan and never will be. Not even at any point during its serialization did it sell incredibly well or was an unprecedented success. Fellow romcoms in its magazine also beat it. You can be upset with me, I don't care. The numbers don't lie. One loud fart in 2020 won't cement it as a "popular", "selling decently" manga in its entire lifetime.

It was already on a decline even before Season 2 started airing, so whatever came in clutch for a 3rd Season (most likely the merchandise and collaborations), it definitely wasn't the manga sales that lost the boost from Season 1 completely.

[ryllharu]

Originally Posted by WingedAccelerator

Fellow romcoms in its magazine also beat it. You can be upset with me, I don't care. The numbers don't lie. One loud fart in 2020 won't cement it as a "popular", "selling decently" manga in its entire lifetime.

Do they still? I don't see a romcom series published in Weekly Shonen Magazine that's outselling it. I'd love to see you post a source on the numbers for each.

The only one who seems to be upset is you that the series is successful despite how much you loathe it.

Millions of copies is a success by any metric. "It's selling worse than the 3rd most popular manga of all genres in 2020's first half"? What a failure.

[Tactics]

Originally Posted by EroKing

Do the manga and merchandise sale ultimately even matter when it comes to making an anime adaptation most of the times? Sure the money is nice but shows like Ikkitousen and Queen's Blade got multiple seasons and OVAs, yet we still haven't gotten a second one for No Game, No Life.

Ikkitousen and Queen's Blade are still running good though.

Ikkitousen gacha games (started from 2020) have decent amount of loyalist that three episodes anime in May 2022 before is basically testing the water;
Queen's Blade as well. In surface it looks like the franchise is dead, but in Japan the game actively advertised you may see it in one of games community board. Coupled with rumors of 'the one with high (gacha) sales get new figures', we might get another OVA by next years.

Following that, about KanoKari, maybe its good to remind that author managed to get 12,000,000 Yen from crowdfunding for goal of advertising KanoKari S2 in Shibuya (the goal 6,000,000 Yen is done in 30 minutes, so he got surplus 6,000,000 Yen). The tracker shown total of 647 people funded him for that; even with assumption that manga readers is not more than half of that, S3 is no question.