The admirers are trampling with impatience and counting the several hours. This Tuesday, September 13th appears the 102nd episode of the “1 Piece” manga. This comedian born 25 many years back is a genuine social phenomenon with 490 million copies sold all above the planet. It is necessarily very well-known in France, the 2nd biggest manga market in the environment.
in Dijon, the “Momie” bookshop on rue des Godrans will continue to be open up for the 1st time in its historical past at evening and will have the ideal to promote this new operate from 10pm Antoine Vaissière, the supervisor of this brand name, which has about 10 employees, explains what this publishing good results indicates to him.
France Bleu Bourgogne: Your bookstore is recognized for its spectacular manga area which usually takes up an overall area of the shop. What does this depict in your turnover?
Antoine Vaissière: The manga has constantly labored extremely properly for us at any time since we began undertaking just that. We have been known as “Mummy Manga” from 2010 to 2016 and the manga has generally weighed closely on us. This is about 45% of our turnover. And there, with Covid and the look of the Tradition Go, we definitely exploded. Since you have to comprehend that a 17-year-previous or an 18-yr-previous female, when you give them 300 euros to invest, will come to spend it on manga. And there, this office now accounts for 56% of our turnover.
Do you sense the “1 Piece” phenomenon in this company?
Of course, when you see the multitude of manga we have, “Just one Piece” stands out and represents far more than 5% of our turnover. We provide each and every quantity about 110 instances a calendar year and there are still 90 volumes still left!
Concern 102 arrives out this Tuesday, September 13th. How many copies have you scheduled for tonight?
We purchased all-around 300. For us, this is additional than double what we purchased a number of many years in the past. It can be very outstanding how large this collection is and how profitable this sequence carries on. We might not market 300 copies in one evening, but they will promote out immediately.
What is the average expenditure of a manga lover in your property?
I you should not have unique figures for manga, but at dwelling we have absent from an ordinary basket of all around twenty euros to all-around 30 euros right now.
What is actually fascinating is that this book’s good health interprets into employment.
Indeed for us, it is function and enhancement. We hired six persons in a person calendar year, 4 of which created careers. We have had collaborators who have altered paths and whom we have changed. We went from 6 to 10 staff members. And we however plan to produce in 2023 with an extension of our library (an additional floor – ed)
Can this manga bubble keep on in your belief?
If I realized, I would be billions of rich! (laughs) We can only hope, but we are little by little setting up to quiet down a little bit. We have climbed so significant, so rapidly in the latest years that it is really however actually fantastic and satisfying, especially when we listen to all the bad information all over us.
The “Momie Dijon” bookshop will be exceptionally open from 19:00 to 23:30. this Tuesday 13 September with animations, films, quizzes on the popular straw hat pirate.
North of the city, the shop “Cultura”, avenue de Langres will be open up from 19:00 to 22:00. and promises ” exceptional giveaways et magnificent which include a just one meter frieze with figures from the series “prior to the sale of this N ° 102
Full particulars can be found at the website of the “Night of a piece”
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