Osamake ends as a complete failure

The light novel series “ Osamake: Romcom Where The Childhood Friend Won't Lose ” has officially come to an end with the release of its 13th volume. But rather than a triumphant farewell, the series’ finale has been more of a silent funeral, with sales failing to even make a sound in the charts.

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The author had already anticipated it: the collapse in sales was inevitable. And the numbers speak for themselves (they correspond to the sales figures at the launch of these volumes):

And the final volume… better not ask. The author himself spoke out on social media, making it clear that the sales debacle was a direct consequence of the anime's poor animation. According to him, when an adaptation suffers from such notorious “animation breakdowns”, the consequences on the original work are devastating. Although an anime normally increases the popularity of a novel, in this case the opposite occurred: the poor quality of the series drove away new readers instead of attracting them.

“ The first volume sold over 200,000 copies. But the last one didn’t even reach a tenth of that figure ,” he wrote. The author also noted that while certain technical errors in the anime went viral (such as the infamous “badly animated dance”), that didn’t help sales at all. “ It only served to make us laugh on the internet, but people didn’t go out and buy the novel .”