csm would have been a juggernaut just like jjk but wasn’t because of mappa.
jjk wasn’t as mainstream as it is today when anime was announced, even in terms of sales, jjk vol 1 sold 28k volumes, whereas csm vol 1 sold 30-35k, jjk vol sales exploded after the double cour season drop whereas csm was already selling 15 million copies even before the anime dropped. jjk’s production committee put pressure on mappa to prioritise production whereas mappa owned csm and kind of neglected it, and when the reze arc movie finally dropped, jjk had already out shined csm. fujimoto is not without blame, he isn’t as disciplined as gege, but had csm been given proper attention, it would have been the cultural juggernaut instead of jjk. csm should have already had 2 seasons and both double cour.
these are just my thoughts, what do you guys think.