Japan's Weekly Manga Rankings for Jan 11 - 17

Snow said:
Here are the weekly manga rankings for January 11 - 17

Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles


*2.　170,389　*,170,389　Sakamoto desu ga? Vol.4

Source: Oricon Youtaijou

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Agafin said:
I agree with Keragamming, the content of a single chapter has little effect on the sales of a volume. Most of the people who buy a One Piece volume today have bought all the previous volumes. How would the quality of a chapter change anything at all? Do you think that people who dislike a single chapter will not buy the volume of a series that they've been collecting for years because of that? Or that people who stopped buying OP volumes years ago would start again because they heard about a good chapter? Obviously not, for if that was the case, we would have some volumes selling only 2 million copies while others would sell up to 4 million copies a year. All the volumes end up selling about the same amount (3~3.3 million) whatever the volume contained.

Agafin said:
How would the quality of a chapter change anything at all? Do you think that people who dislike a single chapter will not buy the volume of a series that they've been collecting for years because of that? Or that people who stopped buying OP volumes years ago would start again because they heard about a good chapter?

ichii_1 said:

Alot of people buy it later on, so if something big happens or if there's a string of great chapters, they will buy it sooner rather than later, which makes it seem like more people bought it.

shanimebib said:


Chihayafuru is probably the most popular Josei manga ever created; popularity doesn't always mean quality but it is a quality manga. We hardly ever see 5+ volumes for manga dedicated to the said demography, 10+ is even rarer, but to reach 30 volumes and still going so strong, it's an amazing feat.