THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY KICK YOUR ASS
It’s never immediately clear if a new manga will make it or not. So many never get their breakthrough and even when they do it’s not always easy to point at one thing that caused it. Of course there’s always a few like Attack on Titan, where popularity snowballs so quickly and it gains such wide international reach that you can barely surf the web for more than 5 minutes without running into an Attack on Titan meme.
Why, though? While it has an intriguing story, Attack on Titan is hardly the first manga/anime with this formula. Let’s take a look, shall we?