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Here is the weekly manga sales ranking for December 6th - 12th.

*1, 185,674 *,185,674 Shingeki no Kyojin vol.3
*2, 173,224 *,635,378 Bleach vol.48
*3, 148,236 *,363,413 D.Gray-man vol.21
*4, 134,298 *,322,916 Gintama vol.37
*5, 121,456 *,302,216 Katekyo Hitman Reborn! vol.32
*6, *76,466 *,167,037 Claymore vol.19
*7, *64,386 *,140,189 Vampire Knight vol.13
*8, *60,111 *,135,419 Kuroko no Basket vol.10
*9, *58,315 *,135,141 Sket Dance vol.16
10, *54,420 *,*54,420 Drop vol.12

11, *53,093 *,*98,180 Switch Girl!! vol.14
12, *52,370 *,117,228 Kiss Yori mo Hayaku vol.8
13, *49,527 *,320,756 Shingeki no Kyojin vol.1
14, *48,372 *,503,796 Yotsuba&! vol.10
15, *46,671 *,309,798 Shingeki no Kyojin vol.2
16, *46,141 *,*99,078 MPD Psycho vol.15
17, *44,200 *,*44,200 Saint Seiya Next Dimension vol.3
18, *42,089 *,458,510 REAL vol.10
19, *41,398 *,*92,977 Kure-nai vol.6
20, *41,217 *,*41,217 Higanjima vol.33

21, *40,247 1,154,954 Fullmetal Alchemist vol.27
22, *39,198 *,*39,198 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai vol.3
23, *38,159 *,*38,159 Break Blade vol.9
24, *37,060 *,*38,007 Wangan Midnight C1 Runner vol.4
25, *35,957 *,435,107 3 Gatsu no Lion vol.5
26, *34,787 *,*72,417 Pyuu to Fuku! Jaguar vol.20
27, *34,529 *,*81,565 Ao no Exorcist vol.5
28, *33,494 *,*33,494 Seitokai no Ichizon vol.4
29, *32,691 *,*32,691 Yowamushi Pedal vol.15
30, *29,482 *,*69,389 Psyren vol.14

Note: "Shingeki no Kyojin" has won the top ("for men" category) in the annual manga review magazine "Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2011". "Her" won the top in the "for women" category.

Source: Oricon Manga Ranking

Weekly Light Novel Ranking for Dec 6 - 12
*1, 56,411 *,*56,411 Sword Art Online vol.6
*2, 48,804 1,354,660 Moshidora
*3, 29,127 *,*29,127 Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu vol.13
*4, 24,609 *,*24,609 Sakura-so no Pet na Kanojo vol.4
*5, 24,441 *,*24,441 Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko vol.7
*6, 18,989 *,*57,647 D.Gray-man: Reverse vol.3
*7, 15,330 *,*15,330 Fortune Quest vol.17
*8, 14,235 *,*14,235 Lucky Chance! vol.8
*9, 11,779 *,*11,779 Rakuin no Monsho vol.7
10, 10,184 *,*10,184 Westadia no Sosei vol.8

Source: Oricon Novel Ranking

hell yeah d.gray man

I bought like 40 volumes that week and only one showed up:

12, *52,370 *,117,228 Kiss Yori mo Hayaku vol.8

d gray man FTW

:D

OMG! no One Piece at all this week?! :O

this is a surprise...

Why the hell is this shit selling?

Shingeki no Kyojin did extremely well this week with sales, but besides that nothing too interesting besides sword art online appearing in first for the light novels sales.

because it's shounen, nothing else that genre is good for

WTF Bleach.

second

oh god there's already 15th volume out, but why isn't any group scanlating this? ;-;

very good top5 this week

no naruto, no one piece. can japanese people actually be regaining the good tastes?

now if only we would replace that reborn in the list with fma volume ^_^

And you've read / watched OP to gain a decent opinion of it?
I think they're losing their taste though whatever taste they have, moe loving weirdos, KHR, Bleach and DGM in the top 5 is actually appalling.

Though it's nice to see gintama selling nicely, and the list reminded me I have to give sket dance another chance in the future.

4 good shounen manga top 5 ^_^, especially D.gray man

No One Piece...? That's quite surprising. (Probably no new volume to sell~_~)



Nice to see them in the Top 5~ I'm especially happy about KHR! making it <3

Let's see what in this list would be restricted by the new laws.

Vampire Knight - Incest.

Kure-nai - lolicon, assuming that Shinkuro and Muraskai have a more clear-cut romance than they do in the anime.

Break Blade - Cleo Sabraf, just Cleo Sabraf. Bear in mind that she's supposed to be TWELVE.

Those are pretty much certain. They might be others as well, but I'm sure that restricting Vampire Knight alone would be enough to cause an outcry, let alone the other two.

Oh, and all three are aimed at an under-18 audiences (Break Blade and Kure-nai are shounen, Vampire Knight is shoujo).

Technically VK isn't incest.

The "siblings" aren't blood-related, eh? Well, it's not like I'm going to read a manga like that (or watch the anime) to find out for myself, so excuse me for my mistake.

So you don't even read it and all of a sudden it's a part of your "it's going to be banned, like everything else!11!!" list.
As soon as all these mangas are banned or extensively altered I'll eat my words, until then, you bill ragers should just calm down.

I'm a bit concerned, but I'm not a rager. I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude towards this, hoping for the best but expecting the worst.

I may have been off the mark with Vampire Knight, but I know Kure-nai a bit better. Even though the anime wasn't an outright romance, Murasaki did talk to Shinkuro as if she wanted him to be her husband one day. There are major differences in the manga, though, so this may not be the case there.

As for Break Blade, it doesn't take an avid reader to figure out that Cleo has massive breasts for her age (they are fairly large even by fully grown adult standards) and that she doesn't need such big breasts to look like an older teenager.

I guess that large breasts alone aren't really enough to warrant a ban without some sort of fanservice to go with it (or at least I hope not anyway), and that's something that only Break Blade readers will know about. The promo art for the anime was a bit fanservice-heavy, though, and yes, it did feature Cleo and her breasts. Look it up on Gelbooru if you want.

So yeah, maybe I was overreacting without knowing more, so we shall see when the time comes.