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Chris Godfrey (9 May 2019). "Detective Pikachu and the case of the highest grossing media franchise of all time". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2019. Yet Pokémon somehow continued to maintain a dedicated fandom; enough to see it estimated to be the highest grossing media franchise of all time.
Megan Peters (26 March 2019). "'One Piece' Total Franchise Gross Finally Surpasses 'Lord of the Rings'". Comicbook.com. According to recent reports, fans were informed One Piece hit a new franchise milestone.
"How Pokemon Go craze lives on, three years after mobile game took over the world". Today. 27 July 2019. The Pokemon franchise was created in Japan in 1995 by bug-lover Satoshi Tajiri. Since then it has grown into the world's highest-grossing media franchise worth US$90 billion and counting, according to a list on Wikipedia.
Kylie Knott (24 July 2019). "How Pokemon Go craze lives on, three years after mobile game took over the world". South China Morning Post. The Pokemon franchise was created in Japan in 1995 by bug-lover Satoshi Tajiri. Since then it has grown into the world's highest-grossing media franchise worth US$90 billion and counting, according to a list on Wikipedia.
Christian Hoffer (28 August 2018). "Pokemon Beats Out Star Wars, Marvel as Highest Grossing Media Franchise". Comicbook.com. According to a heavily sourced list on Wikipedia which has been making the rounds on the Internet lately, the Pokemon franchise is currently the highest-grossing media franchise in the world, beating out popular franchises like Star Wars and Hello Kitty.
Craig Elvy (28 August 2018). "Pokémon Is Now The Highest Grossing Media Franchise". Screenrant. Pokémon's renewed popularity is now starting to tell financially according to a list recently published on Wikipedia, which draws from a variety of sources.
Kevin Burwick (24 June 2018). "Pokemon Rules Them All as Highest-Grossing Franchise Ever". MovieWeb. While we wait for Detective Pikachuto come out and earn the Pokémon franchise more cash, you can check out the list of the highest grossing franchises at Wikipedia.

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Digimon Section

I edited the Digimon section to correctly reflect our course. While the overall revenue of the franchise is $6.35 billion, this is not all in video game sales. However, I am unable to find a source that breaks this number down into revenue from sales of the digital pet, video games, anime, films, manga, trading card game, and merchandise. I would appreciate any help. Pacack (talk) 21:11, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Update; I significantly expanded upon the Digimon section, but much of the data is outdated, and some links are broken. If anyone would be willing to help me clean it up, I would appreciate it a lot. Pacack (talk) 23:37, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What happened to to the jump comics section?

Jump Comics used to be on this list actually in the top ten is there a reason that it was removed? Just curious — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.135.165.98 (talk) 21:45, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises#Removal_of_all_entries_with_figures_invented_by_multiplying_prices Timur9008 (talk) 11:00, 7 march 2021 (UTC)

OK thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.135.175.202 (talk) 23:34, 23 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Magazine sales for Manga series should be removed

Magazine sales shouldn't count to a particular franchise gross as a magazine feature several series and attributing to one doesn't make sense and attributing it to all also doesn't make sense instead there should be a new entry for Weekly shounen Jump same as Weekly shounen Magazine that is already added though a problem will remain which is that we have to manually calculate the gross by multiplying because as far as i know no direct source about the magazine gross is available Adab1za (talk) 10:51, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you are talking about the Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine sales/copies, it is the same with the circulation of the mangas. Which means, in every distribution of the publishing company to any stores are already counted as sales. Therefore in every Weekly Shonen Jump featuring One Piece Chapters,the sales of the magazine will also correspond to One Piece Magazine circulation. Remember, the One Piece Official Magazines is not even included there. About the estimation sales, the explanation is already mentioned there in the page of Weekly Shonen Jump. If you read about the article mentioning "7.5 Billion copies of Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine estimate until 2018", it is mentioned there that Luffy is the most featured Character in Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine Issues Cover, which means there is also an every chapter of One Piece there. Not even included the issues in which Luffy is not in the cover which One Piece Chapter has on it. I hope you now understand.

Selenne (talk) 13:12, 2 June 2021 (UTC)Yujoong talk[reply]

It still doesn't make sense, The magazine have different series other than One Piece, so why attribute its full price to OP ? and if we include every series in there then again also doesn't make sense, KochiKame ran in WSJ for 40 years without a single break, should we also add all those 40 years worth of magazine sales into Kochikame ? in my opinion also no since all magazine sales do is inflating the numbers, your point about it being circulation of the manga is wrong since Manga volume only feature one series so it make sense to add them to the series gross. adding One piece official magazine is perfectly fine if you have a source for that but WSJ sales is absolutely not, My final suggestion is to add a note including the number of magazine that featured OP chapters but if you are not convinced then i think we should as a wiki admin/mod for that. Adab1za (talk) 13:28, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]