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Nov 30, 2014 2:20 PM

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SnK so close but didn't make it.

Haikyuu sales are crazy. I can't understand why this is so popular in japan.
Nov 30, 2014 2:29 PM
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Wow close call I would say
Nov 30, 2014 2:34 PM

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No one can beat the King
Nov 30, 2014 2:37 PM

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Just glad to see Baka to Test and Eromanga Sensei on the list.
Nov 30, 2014 2:38 PM

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One piece manga sales by year

2011: 32.9 mil
2012 23.4 mil
2013: 18.1 mil
2014: 11.8 mil

LMAO
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top sales volume of each series


Manga Sales by Volumes
*1. 3,010,801 One Piece Vol.73
*4. 1,921,457 Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.13
*7. 1,106,651 Naruto Vol.67
*9. 1,031,380 Kimi ni Todoke Vol.21
11. *,953,543 Gin no Saji Vol.11
14. *,846,274 Sakamoto desu ga? Vol.2
16. *,832,634 Haikyuu!! Vol.10
18. *,817,937 Kuroko no Basket Vol.26
22. *,783,790 Ao Haru Ride Vol.9
26. *,772,887 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Vol.7
27. *,762,085 Terra Formars Vol.7
32. *,734,896 Ao no Exorcist Vol.12
36. *,706,372 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Vol.20
38. *,668,009 Saint☆Onii-san Vol.10
41. *,657,937 Kuroshitsuji Vol.18
42. *,645,046 Tokyo Ghoul Vol.12
46. *,626,557 Youkai Watch Vol.1
47. *,624,403 Bleach Vol.61
56. *,584,482 Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu. Vol.5
57. *,580,963 Shingeki no Kyojin: Kuinaki Sentaku Vol.1
59. *,572,201 One Punch-Man Vol.5
63. *,561,376 Fairy Tail Vol.41
64. *,561,330 Detective Conan Vol.82
68. *,553,380 Kishibe Rohan wa Ugokanai
74. *,534,473 Nanatsu no Taizai Vol.6
77. *,526,572 Natsume Yuujinchou Vol.17
78. *,523,637 Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Vol.4
88. *,506,764 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: Jojolion Vol.6
92. *,499,799 REAL Vol.13
98. *,479,955 Uchuu Kyoudai Vol.23
Nov 30, 2014 2:42 PM

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SnK fought for a close #2 and that's achievement against OP.

Terra Formars is pretty high without much of anime boost, and AssClass is in the Top 10 without one. It will be interesting to see what they look like next year.

Why does No Game No Life have two entries?
Nov 30, 2014 3:02 PM

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lol Eromanga Sensei already 183k with just 3 volumes.
Nov 30, 2014 3:06 PM

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[size=90]Yayy, One Piece at first.
Nov 30, 2014 3:07 PM

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SnK almost beat OP.
Nice to see Tokyo Ghoul getting the attention it deserves.

I'm excited to see what series next year has for us.
In 2013 it was SnK. 2014 had Tokyo Ghoul and Taizai (and you could say Haikyuu too).

SnS and AC are fairly popular right now and will continue to grow, but, what series will be the next hype one? My Hero Academia maybe?
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Kamima said:
Why does No Game No Life have two entries?

If I recall correctly, the Light Novel changed publisher and their, say, sales code changed as well hence reseting their total sales as they are selling under a new "sales code."
Too tired and I don't remember the correct term ;_;
Hopefully it make sense!
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Nov 30, 2014 3:10 PM

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So much win
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Fuck yeah Tokyo Ghoul is on 4th.
SnK was so close to beating One Piece. Oh well at least this year something was able to rival OP.
HxH isn't on the list this year. Well that's to be expected since no new volumes were released since about 3 years.
Nov 30, 2014 3:12 PM

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Gintama not doing so well :/
Nov 30, 2014 3:12 PM

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Avok said:

In 2013 it was SnK. 2014 had Tokyo Ghoul and Taizai (and you could say Haikyuu too).

Why would you mention Haikyuu last and with a ''could'' even though it above both of these in manga and anime reception lol.
Nov 30, 2014 3:22 PM
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One Piece and Shingeki no Kyojin were so close at the first two places this year. Well done for Shingeki no Kyojin once again, to be able to get so high.

Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basket and Diamond no Ace are in top 10, while Yowamushi Pedal is in 14th place. Except for Kuroko no Basket, I don't understand why sports manga are this popular in Japan.

Tokyo Ghoul got the strongest anime boost from the rest, it seems. Now I understand why it was bound to get a second season.

Magi and Nanatsu no Taizai also got some nice anime boosts. I suppose the latter will have high sales in next fiscal year, as well.

Ansatsu no Kyoushitsu got a large boost even before the anime started airing. It looks to me that this'll be a big one next year. It depends a bit on how good the anime will be. I plan on watching this so I hope it will be good. Another one I noticed being pretty high up even without anime airing yet is Shokugeki no Souma.

Terra Formers is still quite popular in Japan despite seemingly getting a bad reception due to the censorship. I'm surprised. However, I do not remember seeing it sell much more after the anime started airing.

Fairy Tail's last volume started selling right at the end of this fiscal year. I'm glad to see both Bleach and Fairy Tail still hanging up there, though. Same thing with Gintama and Kuroshitsuji.
Nov 30, 2014 3:27 PM

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Waiting for that Hoozuki no Reitetsu season 2.
Nov 30, 2014 3:29 PM

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Damn, #1 and #2 were close.
Nov 30, 2014 3:31 PM

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Tomislavr7 said:

Tokyo Ghoul got the strongest anime boost from the rest, it seems. Now I understand why it was bound to get a second season.

Ansatsu no Kyoushitsu got a large boost even before the anime started airing. It looks to me that this'll be a big one next year. It depends a bit on how good the anime will be. I plan on watching this so I hope it will be good.


Haikyuu!! got a boost of 6,227,498 copies, while Tokyo Ghoul got a boost of 5,279,855 copies.
The obvious strongest boost of the year is Haikyuu!! Also Tokyo Ghoul has 1 more volume selling than Haikyuu!! Tokyo Ghoul with 14 volumes while Haikyuu!! with 13. I don't see how Tokyo Ghoul had any kind of stronger boost.

Assassination Classroom got basically no boost from last year! It sold 37,426 copies more. I wouldn't call that any kind of significant boost.
Nov 30, 2014 3:31 PM

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Tomislavr7 said:
One Piece and Shingeki no Kyojin were so close at the first two places this year. Well done for Shingeki no Kyojin once again, to be able to get so high.

Haikyuu, Kuroko no Basket and Diamond no Ace are in top 10, while Yowamushi Pedal is in 14th place. Except for Kuroko no Basket, I don't understand why sports manga are this popular in Japan.

Tokyo Ghoul got the strongest anime boost from the rest, it seems. Now I understand why it was bound to get a second season.

Magi and Nanatsu no Taizai also got some nice anime boosts. I suppose the latter will have high sales in next fiscal year, as well.

Ansatsu no Kyoushitsu got a large boost even before the anime started airing. It looks to me that this'll be a big one next year. It depends a bit on how good the anime will be. I plan on watching this so I hope it will be good. Another one I noticed being pretty high up even without anime airing yet is Shokugeki no Souma.

Terra Formers is still quite popular in Japan despite seemingly getting a bad reception due to the censorship. I'm surprised. However, I do not remember seeing it sell much more after the anime started airing.

Fairy Tail's last volume started selling right at the end of this fiscal year. I'm glad to see both Bleach and Fairy Tail still hanging up there, though. Same thing with Gintama and Kuroshitsuji.


TG blue ray/DVD sales are bit disappointing, they cant beat a crappy adaptation of Sailor Moon.

FT had a 500K decrease compared to last year.

FT last year did 3,790,151 with no anime and this year did 3,275,885 with their anime back.

Nov 30, 2014 3:44 PM

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One piece manga sales by year

2011: 32.9 mil
2012 23.4 mil
2013: 18.1 mil
2014: 11.8 mil

LMAO


I don't know what is funny. The 32.9 Million was people getting caught with the series. Now almost everybody in Japan already caught to the last volume so you will not have huge backlog sales.

You could just do a simple math and see that 4 volumes per year * 3,000,000 copies per volume = 12,000,000 copies sold per year. So in no way would one Piece do numbers like 14M, 32.9M, 23.4M and 18.1M if it wasn't for the backlog sales.

In 2011, One Piece got around 500k(half a million) new readers and so it got that huge of a number. You can't wait for every year for a new group of half a million readers to get into your manga. Majority of titles don't even get 500k readers!
Nov 30, 2014 4:01 PM

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bigivelfhq said:
Kiratron said:
One piece manga sales by year

2011: 32.9 mil
2012 23.4 mil
2013: 18.1 mil
2014: 11.8 mil

LMAO


I don't know what is funny. The 32.9 Million was people getting caught with the series. Now almost everybody in Japan already caught to the last volume so you will not have huge backlog sales.

You could just do a simple math and see that 4 volumes per year * 3,000,000 copies per volume = 12,000,000 copies sold per year. So in no way would one Piece do numbers like 14M, 32.9M, 23.4M and 18.1M if it wasn't for the backlog sales.

In 2011, One Piece got around 500k(half a million) new readers and so it got that huge of a number. You can't wait for every year for a new group of half a million readers to get into your manga. Majority of titles don't even get 500k readers!


Yup, http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=370525
2011 One Piece first volume sold 500,000 copies those numbers were because of the BOOM on sales One Piece received,every manga that receives a boost end up like this,One Piece is just more obviously because of the huge numbers,I mean is there any people that think a Manga is able to mantain 32 mil a year?
Nov 30, 2014 4:02 PM

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tsudecimo said:
Avok said:

In 2013 it was SnK. 2014 had Tokyo Ghoul and Taizai (and you could say Haikyuu too).

Why would you mention Haikyuu last and with a ''could'' even though it above both of these in manga and anime reception lol.


I'm talking about hype. Fighting type series tend to be overly-hyped, more than sports one.

Even though Haikyuu sold more than TG, it is nowhere as hyped as the latter (from my point of view). Don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about quality or anything like that lol.
Nov 30, 2014 4:08 PM

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Here are the Manga and Light Novel sales rankings for the fiscal year of 2014. (November 18, 2013 - November 16, 2014)

Manga Sales by Series
*1. 11,885,957 One Piece


*1. 3,010,801 One Piece Vol.73
*2. 2,834,558 One Piece Vol.74
*3. 2,698,071 One Piece Vol.75
52. *,600,024 One Piece Vol.72
Lets go One Piece!! What is this, six years in a row now?

Nov 30, 2014 4:20 PM
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bigivelfhq said:
Tomislavr7 said:

Tokyo Ghoul got the strongest anime boost from the rest, it seems. Now I understand why it was bound to get a second season.

Ansatsu no Kyoushitsu got a large boost even before the anime started airing. It looks to me that this'll be a big one next year. It depends a bit on how good the anime will be. I plan on watching this so I hope it will be good.


Haikyuu!! got a boost of 6,227,498 copies, while Tokyo Ghoul got a boost of 5,279,855 copies.
The obvious strongest boost of the year is Haikyuu!! Also Tokyo Ghoul has 1 more volume selling than Haikyuu!! Tokyo Ghoul with 14 volumes while Haikyuu!! with 13. I don't see how Tokyo Ghoul had any kind of stronger boost.

Assassination Classroom got basically no boost from last year! It sold 37,426 copies more. I wouldn't call that any kind of significant boost.


I did say "from the rest" where I mentioned Haikyuu above it.
However, you're absolutely right about Assassination Classroom. The volumes are not selling much higher than last year already. It still is true that it's pretty high for something that didn't have an anime airing yet.

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TG blue ray/DVD sales are bit disappointing, they cant beat a crappy adaptation of Sailor Moon.

FT had a 500K decrease compared to last year.

FT last year did 3,790,151 with no anime and this year did 3,275,885 with their anime back.


Well, my personal opinion is that the anime was pretty weak except for a couple of minutes that were well done here and there. It surely could've been better than it was.
Yes, it's too bad Fairy Tail's going downward quite a lot even with the anime restarting, as you mentioned. I think Bleach dropped quite a bit, too, but it seems to have a more solid fan base. It has been almost three years since the anime ended after all.
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Tokyo Ghoul beating Naruto, and Magi still on TOP 10 amuses me. Greatly.

Seven Deadly Sins on Top 10 already is a good promise for the next year.

Assassination Classroom, the same.



Oh, and FT is still above Bleach, okay. This FT arc is likely the better in years, and Bleach is lacking any emotion since the
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Nov 30, 2014 4:24 PM

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Everything is fine for me, but this just pissed me off.

------> *1. 1,599,614 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
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Im saddened Toriko isnt in the Top 30, the series got killed by Toei.



Who in his right mind would agree copying DBGT aka worst anime ever?

Nov 30, 2014 4:35 PM
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Well, this was to be expected

Nice to see One Piece still at the top


Kingdom, it needs more attention, people should really get on with it, it is crazy good
Nov 30, 2014 4:36 PM
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Well Awesome List this year! I did a thought's if anyone's interested :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YJ8d-uWBU4
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Well, this was to be expected

Nice to see One Piece still at the top


Kingdom, it needs more attention, people should really get on with it, it is crazy good


Too bad the anime....



If Kingdom anime had TG animation they would be in the Top 5 as well, the manga is miles better than TG.

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LordPerucho said:
Westuffyme said:
Well, this was to be expected

Nice to see One Piece still at the top




Kingdom, it needs more attention, people should really get on with it, it is crazy good




Too bad the anime....



If Kingdom anime had TG animation they would be in the Top 5 as well, the manga is miles better than TG.


I like Kingdom, but I'm sorry it isn't miles better than Tokyo Ghoul. In fact Tokyo Ghoul is better than Kingdom.
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LordPerucho said:
Westuffyme said:
Well, this was to be expected

Nice to see One Piece still at the top


Kingdom, it needs more attention, people should really get on with it, it is crazy good


Too bad the anime....



If Kingdom anime had TG animation they would be in the Top 5 as well, the manga is miles better than TG.



I agree with you, but besides the animation, anime cuts of few arcs in the beginning of the series, which are really important for the story. And there is censorship too, that made me so disappointed that I actually stoped watching it and went back to the manga.

I don't know for the season 2, but from the previews, I think they did a better job with everything
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One Piece v. 73 sold 3 freaking million copies? Ahahahah, nice job Oda.
Shingeki no Kyojin seems to be losing popularity bit by bit.

Why the hell did Youkai Watch sell so much? I watched a bit of the anime and it was a piece of shit, literally. I thought everyone hated it like I do but seems like I was wrong.
Top 1 to 20 I'd say almost every of them were expected to sell that much.

Nanatsu won over Ansatsu Kyoushitsu! Yay. Even though both are very good, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu was a bit worse this year so I think that Nanatsu deserves it.

I thought that Akame ga Kill would receive a popularity boost with the adaptation but seems like I was wrong.

Tokyo Ghoul... damn. I have no words to describe the boost it received this year, people seem to love this story.
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Great to see No Game No Life in the top 10. Same with Index. Hoping for new seasons for both! Oh and Oregairu too.

The popularity of One Piece continues to baffle me. I just don't see the quality in it.
Nov 30, 2014 5:19 PM

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One Piece = Master Race!!!

Based Luffy is God!!
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Nov 30, 2014 5:29 PM

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Based on my calculations Toriko should be around 1.9 million, it just missed the cut.
But the author did take a month off and the anime ended too :O

#ONE PIECE
#TOKYO GHOUL
Nov 30, 2014 5:43 PM

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Holy shit, I never expected Tokyo Ghoul would get that popular.
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Surprised with Haikyuu!! placed 3rd, not bad.
and when combined SAO actually placed higher than Mahouka
Most are well deserved
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My favorites this year.
1.One Piece
4.Tokyo Ghoul
6.Naruto
10.Assasination Clasroom
28.One Punch-Man
And i am surprised about Toriko, i think Toriko did a good job this year.
Nov 30, 2014 5:56 PM

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Light Novel Sales by Series
*1. 1,599,614 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei


Great :)
Nov 30, 2014 5:59 PM

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NGNL and TG, outclassing a lot of other popular stuff how sweet :3

SnK came pretty close lol.

Nanatsu no Taizai is pretty popular huh?

Mahouka? Wut?!
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Kamima said:
Why does No Game No Life have two entries?

If I recall correctly, the Light Novel changed publisher and their, say, sales code changed as well hence reseting their total sales as they are selling under a new "sales code."
Too tired and I don't remember the correct term ;_;
Hopefully it make sense!


Thanks. So it's actually the 4th best selling LN series with 939,438.
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Not surprisingly that all of the top 30 selling manga (minus the josei one) I've heard of or have read, or have watched the anime adaptation. Oh quick search shows that the drama adaptation is currently airing...so I assume it got a boost from the drama? I want to read it, but I don't think there are any scanlated chapters out yet, I only found translations of the first 10 chapters or so. Oh well.

Also, I would love to see another season of Gin no Saji...
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Looks like OP sales are down about 150-200K per volume compare to how they stood last year.

Bleach sales down a good chunk too but not a surprise because it's shit now.

Kimi Ni Todoke's sales are also down a bit and that doesn't surprise me either because that's also turned into complete shit.
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Attack on Titan came so close to first oh well still put up great sales to compete with One Piece.
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Great top 10, happy about Haikyuu, it's so good.
One Piece #1 and it really deserved this year, and to me the 2 best was haikyuu
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One Piece solos once again.
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And it had less volumes released
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One Piece,the greatest manga of all time.

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Tokyo Ghoul got the strongest anime boost from the rest, it seems. Now I understand why it was bound to get a second season.


For an anime like Tokyo Ghoul with huge manga fanbase,I thought the anime sales is very bad too.

ZapredonNov 30, 2014 8:01 PM
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion.

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It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist.
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