When I saw that this manga had 16 volumes in three years, I tripled checked to make sure the date of publication and the number of volumes were correct… they are!

How's that even possible ?! Can somebody explain this? I don't think I've ever seen such a fast rate of publication.

It's a weekly series?

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Weekly Shonen Jump publishes 50 issues a year. Kimetsu no Yaiba features 9 chapters per volume. 50/9 amount to a maximum of 5,56 possible volumes a year. The manga started on February 2016 and has enough material to just have published vol. 19 if Shueisha wanted.

My Hero Academia, Naruto or One Piece feature 10 chapters per volume, which amounts to 5 possible releases year. Shueisha decided to put 20 pages less into a Kimetsu no Yaiba release. This could be a new practice for recent work, as Chainsaw Man also settled on 9 chapters per volume. Older works are seemingly keeping the 10 chapter count. In conclusion: Shueisha is seeing the same downward trend most print publications do and decided to flood the market a bit instead of raising the cover price for tankōbon.

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