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Here are the weekly manga & light novels rankings for April 30th - May 6th.

Ranks/ This week's sales by copies/ Cumulative sales/ Titles
Manga
*1, 2,275,453 2,275,453 One Piece vol.66
*2, *,847,826 *,847,826 Naruto vol.60
*3, *,333,085 *,333,085 Bakuman vol.18
*4, *,131,347 *,131,347 Gate 7 vol.3
*5, *,*81,173 *,*81,173 Vampire Knight vol.16
*6, *,*68,208 *,*68,208 Toshokan Sensou: Love & War vol.9
*7, *,*60,492 *,*60,492 Tegami Bachi vol.14
*8, *,*59,271 *,453,940 Fairy Tail vol.32
*9, *,*57,569 *,*90,239 Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu vol.4
10, *,*56,381 *,258,103 Giant Killing vol.23

11, *,*55,853 *,108,716 Junjou Romantica vol.15
12, *,*55,013 *,449,052 Gin no Saji vol.3
13, *,*45,317 *,*45,317 Nisekoi vol.1
14, *,*42,823 *,*83,829 Oyasumi Punpun vol.10
15, *,*39,085 1,042,175 Thermae Romae vol.1
16, *,*37,554 *,563,376 Shingeki no Kyojin vol.7
17, *,*37,059 *,858,539 Thermae Romae vol.2
18, *,*36,739 *,*36,739 Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa vol.3
19, *,*35,824 *,931,591 Hunter x Hunter vol.30
20, *,*35,070 *,322,604 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: Jojolion vol.2

21, *,*33,822 *,607,120 Thermae Romae vol.4
22, *,*33,203 *,721,624 Thermae Romae vol.3
23, *,*32,600 *,*32,600 Tegami Bachi vol.14 with a booklet
24, *,*32,570 *,*75,840 Kannagi vol.7
25, *,*32,397 3,130,268 One Piece vol.65
26, *,*31,578 *,*85,812 Usotsuki Lily vol.7
27, *,*31,348 *,317,060 Ao Haru Ride vol.4
28, *,*31,120 *,612,761 Gin no Saji vol.1
29, *,*30,819 *,580,712 Gin no Saji vol.2
30, *,*30,231 *,*58,499 Shinya Shokudou vol.9

Light Novels
*1, 21,758 *28,643 Medaka Box vol.1
*2, 20,290 121,647 Kotenbu series vol.1 Hyouka
*3, 17,759 *47,126 Touhou Symposium of Post-mysticism
*4, 16,620 208,499 Bokura ga Ita
*5, 15,527 *43,192 Himeiden
*6, 14,441 *60,376 Kotenbu series vol.2
*6, 13,988 738,215 Biblia Koshoten no Jikentecho vol.1
*7, 13,214 *21,275 Mismarka Kokoku Monogatari vol.10
*8, 12,170 514,732 Biblia Koshoten no Jikentecho vol.2
*9, 11,525 *52,723 Kotenbu series vol.3
10, 10,910 192,165 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai vol.10
11, 10,733 *18,996 Maria-sama ga Miteru vol.39
12, 10,605 *17,217 Hayo no Tsurugi vol.6 Part 12
13, 10,573 *74,079 Kotenbu series vol.4
14, *9,844 *51,457 Mayo Chiki! vol.11

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

ugh, no chihayafuru again, this saddens me

With the high rankings, popularity, and color pages given to Nisekoi, I was expecting it to have sold more copies. But hell, 45+K is not shabby at all for a first week and first volume release.

One Piece, selling like hotcakes as always, and I can't recall ever seeing Tegami Bachi on the list. I may have not looked carefully, correct me if I'm wrong.

no Magico this time.. aaah.. i hope it could sell better..

Bakuman got to number 3, not bad.

This is exactly the kind of thing a publisher wants to see when an anime adaptation is made.

Hyouka (Vol. 1) has essentially doubled its sales in the past month, from less than 70k to over 120k. That's half its sales in a month when it's been out for 11 years...

And very nice boosts for the other volumes, though Vol. 5 didn't quite make it.

first time i heard about Gate 7 looks cool from the reviews and its made by CLAMP

Glad to see Punpun is still up there, and lmao Tegami Bachi with a booklet

I wonder what's with the sudden surge in sales for Thermae Romae. Did the DVDs recently come out or something?

One piece on top of the leaderboards as usual! I can't judge if it's good or not since I have yet to get into the series. Overall, not a bad list I guess, at least, compared to other weeks.

They did, although they sold virtually nothing.

One Piece sold more than two million copies for this week... Wow...Just wow...

Hey, Nisekoi and Kagami no Kuni no Harisugawa up there, good to see them.

Kinda surprised to see Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu in there.

Love them^^

The release date between volumes is around 3 months. So I wouldn't go looking for vol17 until mid-June.

*1, 2,275,453 2,275,453 One Piece vol.66
*2, *,847,826 *,847,826 Naruto vol.60
No surprise here. XD
I find it pretty amazing that One piece is not only always first, but has also sold double, almost triple that of second place. Oda's fame. XD

Tegami Bachi vol.14
Hunter x Hunter vol.30
Yay! :D

Gin no Saji vol.3
Nisekoi vol.1
Congrats to Komi-sensei! Good job to Gin no Saji too.

Kotenbu series vol.1 Hyouka
Oyasumi Punpun vol.10
I want to read these...

The live action movie just came out though, and apparantly it's doing very well.

A lot of stupid shoujo type stuff I don't care for on this list. Doesn't really matter in the end though. All this list showed was that the middle market is seeing expansion on the amount of top selling shoujo type stuff; but that doesn't change the fact that the upper tier sales are still predominately shounen. Shows the state of the industry overall though. The only thing that's unanimous is that people always buy one piece and might take a look at a series like naruto here and there.

What's really surprising is this Gin no Saji. Fairly new manga with a crazy amount of sales. Once again depressing me on the power of slice of life in the manga/anime era we now live in.

Oh wow Thermae Romae's first volume sold alredy over 1 million and the second close to it.
One piece first as usual ♥
and Bakuman 3rd !