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Burito would be print by the license holder. Shuseia will not ship it oversea.
So none of the volumes have been shipped overseas? None? None. Not A Single one? So then, how did Lucky get a physical copy of the first volume written in English to take pictures of?
Companies need to print volumes of their manga which they then put in stores and online to sell in order to make money. If they think they got a hit or they just want to put their product out there to get as many customers as possible they will print a lot of copies which they then sell to distributors for them to sell to customers.
Also, in some cases companies will just print off a lot of copies to hide the fact that their product isn't selling in stores. Marvel has been doing that for years, where they been trying to hide the fact that their comics aren't selling by giving stores more comics then they requested. So when surveys like these are done they can show of comics that been printed to hide the fact that their comics aren't selling in stores.
Now again I don't think Shueisha doing that, yet. I think they still believe the Naruto franchise is an international seller, and that problem they been having with Boruto so far are because they have lost the Japanese fanbase. So once they got the boruto volumes they have them translated and sent to as many stores internationally as possible, and when you send three volumes to as many stores as possible across 20 or so countries it very easy to print 450,000 volumes. Now if they are selling? That is a different story.
Boruto at the near bottom of Shueisha's list and it can be wiped out any time. That's what happens when a story kills the plot and the main characters.
They have more manga then just those twenty. They will probably keep it going either just thinking either that is just some bad luck at the start of the story and the manga will bounce back or they are going to realizes that the Naruto franchise is no longer the money maker it once was and lower their expectations.
Couldn't it work the other way? Do you think Viz would scrub the line because of its sexualized nature and her being 12?
We have had instances before where Viz will change lines completely to suit their needs. They probably realized how inappropriate that line would be and how it would force them to boost the rating up. So they changed it while keeping a similar meaning.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 14 April 2017 - 11:52 PM.