Hey wait speaking of the musical doing well do you think there's hope for it to become somewhat popular or has the japanese fandom moved on
[Post regarding the announcement of the stage musical]
Depends on how we're measuring for popularity?
With how little news is coming from official sources it's hard to gauge, but looking at Demizu's twitter, her TPN-related posts are usually the ones that receive the most engagement.
2025 New Year's Posts (Source | Source):
TPN 9th Anniversary Art and art posted two days later:
Norman doodle by Posuka Demizu celebrating his seiyuu Maaya Uchida's marriage to Kaito Ishikawa with no context on the post itself and her doodle of Kaito Ishikawa's character from Beyblade X, Khrome Ryugu, with no context on the post itself (separate post congratulating them):
2025 Christmas Posts (Source | Source | Source):
2026 New Year's Art (Source | Source):
Ray's 2026 Birthday Post and a post from the next day:
Small sampling but you get the idea, there's still an audience interested in TPN.
But is that audience willing to spend money on it?
According to 寿 三井 @/Josu_ke on twitter, TPN sold 10 million physical volumes in Japan since it ended in 2020 (link to HQ chart if tumblr nerfs it):
But most of that was in 2020-2021 based on Demon Slayer's numbers, which also ended in 2020 but picked up enough sales in Japan with the release of the Infinity Castle movie in 2025 to mark a little uptick on the chart:
2010-2019 for comparison:
(Original Oricon data chart complied by @Josu_ke in 2021 | @yakuneba_staff's series' 7th anniversary tweet in 2023 | List of best-selling manga Wikipedia Page)
This isn't factoring in merchandise sales, but with TPN season 1 performing poorly leading to the severe truncation of season 2 taking it from a critical darling of Winter 2019 to the laughing stock of Winter 2021 damaging its reputation and popular consensus outside the fandom that anything after the escape is of lower quality, I think the musical has the potential to be popular within a niche of the fandom, but not a big pull to draw a lot of new blood in, though this is based on the assumption that by virtue of popularity and practical logistics they'll follow the lead of the live action movie and only adapt the escape arc rather than adapting material that's never been adapted before like Goldy Pond. We'll see what any new news brings us!
