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The weekly manga and light novels rankings for June 11th - 17th

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

Manga
*1, 222,909 *,222,909 Chihayafuru, Vol. 17
*2, 172,046 *,172,046 Fairy Tail, Vol. 33
*3, *82,286 *,*82,286 Tonari no Atashi, Vol. 10
*4, *81,087 *,604,962 Bleach, Vol. 55
*5, *73,762 *,*73,762 Air Gear, Vol. 36
*6, *72,612 *,*72,612 Shura no Mon: Dai Ni Mon, Vol.6
*7, *68,907 *,*68,907 Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo, 20th Anniversary Series Vol. 1
*8, *64,059 *,399,210 Bakuman., Vol. 19
*9, *63,157 *,*63,157 Mashiro no Oto, Vol. 6
10, *57,673 *,*57,673 Area no Kishi , Vol. 31

11, *54,215 *,*54,215 Detective Conan, Vol. 76
12, *53,600 *,*53,600 Dear Boys Act III, Vol. 10
13, *52,683 *,170,075 Initial D: First Stage, Vol. 45
14, *51,776 *,279,483 Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Vol.39
15, *48,562 *,*98,062 7Seeds, Vol. 22
16, *45,380 *,*45,380 Fairy Tail Special Edition with DVD, Vol. 33
17, *43,016 *,*43,016 Ouke no Monshou, Vol. 57
18, *40,903 *,*40,903 Kimi no Iru Machi, Vol. 18
19, *40,564 *,*40,564 Taiyou no Ie,Vol. 6
20, *37,252 *,183,427 Claymore, Vol. 22

21, *36,708 *,190,209 Beelzebub, Vol. 16
22, *36,321 *,*36,321 Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, 31
23, *34,066 *,*75,149 Sankarea, Vol. 6
24, *33,837 *,519,459 Kuroshitsuji, Vol. 14
25, *33,147 *,*33,147 Shura no Mon Iden: Fudekage, Vol. 3
26, *31,692 *,*31,692 Gisèle Alain, Vol. 3
27, *30,844 3,024,596 One Piece, Vol. 66
28, *29,910 1,055,967 Kimi ni Todoke, Vol. 16
29, *27,474 *,357,665 Kyou, Koi wo Hajimemasu, Vol. 15
30, *27,092 *,*57,867 BTOOOM!, Vol. 8

Light Novels
*1, 17,419 *40,417 Kagero Days - in a daze
*2, 11,433 *32,431 Heavy Object vol.6
*3, 10,380 194,993 Kotenbu Series vol.1 Hyouka
*4, 10,182 *63,279 Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You vol.1
*5, *9,565 *56,581 Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You vol.2
*6, *9,529 *25,740 Tenshi no 3P!
*7, *9,311 *30,119 Strike the Blood vol.4
*8, *9,000 120,096 Kotenbu Series vol.2
*9, *8,473 *22,708 Golden Time Side Story
10, *8,393 **8,393 Sekai no Subete wo Tsutsumu Koi

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

Sankarea got a bit of a boost, didn't it?

Chihayafuru kicking Fairy Tail's ass, it sure is popular.

I wonder when that Nadeshiko manga is going to end.. if ever.

Wooo! Chihayafuru!

Yey Fairy Tail ^-^

Previous volume, February 6, pre-anime:
19, *31,020 *,*31,020 Sankarea vol.5
no 2nd week rank, threshold 26,5832

Latest volume:
16, *41,083 *,*41,083 Sankarea, Vol. 6
23, *34,066 *,*75,149 Sankarea, Vol. 6

So yeah it's seen a boost, since even at the absolute best, second week numbers for Vol. 5 couldn't have been more than about 57k and were probably under 50k while this one is 75k.


Fairy Tail still sells more overall. Latest numbers 9I think) for the previous volume:
*8, *,*59,271 *,453,940 Fairy Tail vol.32

That's like 100-150k more than most Chihayafuru volumes do, if I remember correctly. I think this week was only just a partial week for FT or something. Sometimes titles have smaller first weeks and relatively large second weeks, an sometimes they do most of the sales in an extra big first week. I'm guessing there's some reason related to distribution schedules and release dates and whatever, but big sellers like Chihayafuru and Fairy Tail should only be compared after 2-3 weeks.

I actually did think that it was quite weak for its first week and in the end it will sell more copies than Chihayafuru but hey, it did beat FT.

I have about the same amount of respect for both series but I have to say it's a bit unfair since Chihayafuru's volume came out 2 days before FT (Ft came out on the 15th - so here are the sales it made in 3 days - and Ch came out on 13th - so here are the sales it made in 5 days) so it has 2 days of advantage which in the release week represents a lot of volumes. Besides even considering only the numbers here and not forgetting you should add the sales of the volume with the dvd for the comparison, since it's the same volume after all, FT would lose by something like 10k sales. That plus the 2 day thing makes the expression kicking ass a bit unfair.

But, on the other hand... Chihayafuru is Josei, a genre that, on average, sells a lot less than shounen so considering it actually has these sales surpassing most shounen, it is more mention worthy than FT's sale.

I just realized I wrote too much over such a trifle matter. I apologize for that.

Grabbing Taiyou no Ie from that list.

Are you taking this into consideration?

*1, 222,909 *,222,909 Chihayafuru, Vol. 17
*2, 172,046 *,172,046 Fairy Tail, Vol. 33
16, *45,380 *,*45,380 Fairy Tail Special Edition with DVD, Vol. 33

Granted that only brings Fairy Tail to 217,426 copies to Chihayafuru's 222,909, but the measly 5,483 copy difference is easily made up in the long run.

Nope, it just looks nice for Chihayafuru to be ahead of Fairy Tail even if that is going to change next week.

There are interesting titles on the list: kyou koi and fairy tail are two examples of goo mangas.

222,909 sales in one week for Chihayafuru , that's impressive.

at least Claymore is there getting good sales

Good to see Conan and Initial D.

fairy tail doing good..

also.. gotta watch chihayafuru

Fairy tail,Bleach and Air gear doing good.Can't wait for the new work from Oh! Great

Fairy Tail and Air Gear(R.I.P) :(

In the near future, Code:Breaker will also be appearing frequently on these rankings

Congrats to Chihayafuru!!

Incidentally, what's the best selling Josei manga ever and how close to the title is Chihayafuru?

I know Sazae-san is listed as Josei, but that's well known for the anime, not the manga - which ended almost 40 years ago.