The game also helpfully explains the head-scratching origins of the character, and how the spirit of a giant, nine-tailed fox was sealed inside Naruto's body when he was an infant, making him an outcast in his own village.
"To me this is a metaphor of what a teenager is," said Puel. "You feel you are a monster, you feel rejected, and you will try to find ways to grow up and to get accepted.
"I think that's what the manga is trying to say, so that's what we're trying to say with the game."

individual comic sales aren't going to make anyone rich. There is a reason why comics are a niche item and rarely found outside of comic book specialty stores - the profit margin per item is too low to make it worthwhile to sell them. Selling 100 comics is less than $150 profit. You need to sell 1000 to make approx. $1500. 2000 sold may pay the rent at a brick and mortar store.

So in order to increase unit sales you have to either increase your customer base or get your existing customer base to buy/spend more (such as the reliance of late on publishers printing variants to increase orders/sales, or the crossover events that spin out into 20 titles) or you have to sell something else that is similar (like graphic novels/books or specialty items like statues/toys) or completely different (as stores did with Collectible Card Games) where your profit margin is higher for selling fewer items.

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