Groundking said:
You do realise that Hunter x Hunter has been one of the most outragously popular mangas since it got going in 1998, often only being beaten in popularity by one piece, all whilst having one of the shittiest consistancy of chapter releases, and if it had been even 80% as consistant at getting chapters out as One Piece (as apposed to less than half) the manga sales would be around 200m right now (assuming the manga continues to be as long as One Piece is currently) as apposed to the 65m as of Febuary 2013 (probably 70m right now). Also Attack on Titan was fairly popular in its own right before the anime hit as you don't survive 5 years as a monthly manga without good sale. Granted the Anime helped the series explode, giving the series the second highest manga sales in 2013 at ~15m. |
Wasnt saying both was not known before the anime, HxH had an anime starting at 1999. Its the fact like you said it exploded! The animes did there job very very well 
