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Part 1: Why I make the charts

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Mood        If you are on or have been lurking on the Mangahelpers WSJ thread or the WSJ Discord server, or you had followed me on twitter @TwtOtaku_My, or you just have seen these charts somewhere online, well I am the one who had been doing them. Most people would not want to read such a long article so here is a tldr for does who just want to get it over with. I think we need them. Inspired by Sales-GAF/ SalesERA Somewhat related to what I do IRL Thinking of what I could do for the community. I like doing them. A trigger that actually pushed me to start doing these charts I'll not go into too much details for each of the reason, I'll try to be concise and only be mentioning the important thing. but first thing first, Why do we even need to track manga sales? People always talk about which manga is more popular, and sales numbers of given volume are an objective way to gauge a series performance and popularity( at least in Japan where a majority