Japan's Weekly Manga & Light Novel Rankings for Oct 20 - 26

Newhopes said:
32,488　*32,488 Madan no Ou to Vanadis Vol.10

Nice little frist week boost due to the anime.

Just wish they had more confidence with the series and had given the anime the budget it deserved rather than the cut down novel summary it's getting.

ikramit said:


I think the madan anime it lacking even as a summary(as its badly written and a misrepresentation ) still we will see how much the sales of the light novel have increased in the next couple of weeks as it usually gets the top spot on the first week of a new volume being released

Agafin said:
I heard that this volume of TG only has 3 chapters and so is cheaper than usual. I wonder if those sales are partly due to that or if that is really the permanent fanbase. Either way, I'm really glad for it and hyped for season 2.

Agafin said:
I heard that this volume of TG only has 3 chapters and so is cheaper than usual. I wonder if those sales are partly due to that or if that is really the permanent fanbase. Either way, I'm really glad for it and hyped for season 2.

umashikaneko said:
Tokyo ghoul had been publishing 400k per volume before anime adaptation,and now it has surpassed 550k per volume so it is not weird

And also people don't buy random volume of manga just because it is cheaper than usual

Plus volume14 is same price as other volume

Sakubo777 said:
I'm surprised no one adapted Vinland Saga yet. Its been amazing up to the latest chapter. I can see those in it for the action to be complaining after it gets to the Slave Arc though. That arc had one of the best character developments I've ever seen in manga. If it does get adapted, better be by a good studio.

With Koe no Katachi ending soon, I can see an anime adaptation for it. I'd prefer it if an adaptation completes the story rather than leave it hanging after it ends.

LordPerucho said:


TG was doing 300K per volume before Anime adaptation.

ikramit said:


I think the madan anime it lacking even as a summary(as its badly written and a misrepresentation ) still we will see how much the sales of the light novel have increased in the next couple of weeks as it usually gets the top spot on the first week of a new volume being released

umashikaneko said:




the sauce from 6/19 says more than 4.5 million for the day vol12 start to sell.

so it is more than 370k per volume 2 weeks before anime airing and that are not even included second publishment of vol12.

anime started 7/3

the sauce from 7/17 says 5.2 million for 12 volume which is more than 430k


so it is mostlikely about 400k right before anime airing.

-Katsu-kun- said:
Chihayafuru slipping down..

hpulley said:
Needs a third season of anime to boost the manga sales back up! Please....

Agafin said:


When discussing about sales, we often refer to sales of newer volumes rather than average sales. That's why you hear people saying that One piece sells 3 million even though it's average is around 5-6 million. The sales of recent volumes is a better indicator of the current fanbase.

Either way, it seems I was wrong about it's latest volume containing only 3 chapters. So, with 500k per volume after 2 weeks, does that make TG the best selling seinen per volume?

umashikaneko said:


You mean oricon estimation?
Oricon estimation is by no means actual sales but speculation they collect data only from 2000 shops when there are more than 50,000 shops that sell manga in Japan and multiple x times that number.
Some manga are very over(under)rated because they sell more manga at shops that are mainly (not) counted by oricon.

And also faster seller are much overrated than slower seller on oricon chart,so I don't think it is good indicator of popularity.Some manga sell 40 percent of its sales in first month while some manga sell 90 percent of its sales in first month.

Vagabond has published 60 million for 35 volume
1 million for Vol35 first edition which is currentely more popular manga I think.

I think oricon estimation ranking is very interesting data because it is easy to compare each manga as long as people keep in mind its limitation and it is not very accurate nor reliable data.

Hahalollawl said:


Very interesting and informative post.

Is the same true for anime disc sales? Oricon apparently doesn't report foreign disc sales, but are there any Japanese sales they don't include? Or are discs primarily sold on the internet so it doesn't matter?

umashikaneko said:
You mean oricon estimation?
Oricon estimation is by no means actual sales but speculation they collect data only from 2000 shops when there are more than 50,000 shops that sell manga in Japan and multiple x times that number.
Some manga are very over(under)rated because they sell more manga at shops that are mainly (not) counted by oricon.

And also faster seller are much overrated than slower seller on oricon chart,so I don't think it is good indicator of popularity.Some manga sell 40 percent of its sales in first month while some manga sell 90 percent of its sales in first month.

Vagabond has published 60 million for 35 volume
1 million for Vol35 first edition which is currentely more popular manga I think.

I think oricon estimation ranking is very interesting data because it is easy to compare each manga as long as people keep in mind its limitation and it is not very accurate nor reliable data.

j0x said:
wow Giant Killing is selling well but where is season 2 of the anime? lol

ichii_1 said:
With the succes of nozaki-kun the chances of her other work getting animated just sky rocketed :)
*9.　*70,465　*70,869　Oresama Teacher Vol.19

Torisunanohokori said:


This times 100. Oricon data is adequate for comparing volumes of the same series (provided they get roughly equal numbers of weeks on the chart), but is a pretty demonstrably uncertain way of comparing series. I computed the average percentage of first-printing totals Oricon estimation represents as 61%, with a spread of ±23%. That indicates that there can be a factor-of-two difference in print runs for two titles with identical oricon totals and average underestimation of total sales.

And that's not the full extent of the spread. There are plenty of series printing 100,000+ volume runs that rarely if ever make the charts. Many of those are super long-runners targeted towards adults like Golgo 13 and Oishinbo, but Shimauma is a Young King title that's only 5 years old and it had a million copies in print through 8 volumes despite charting just once at under 15k.

Monomunu said:
Not strange, it just first week sold from unknown magazine with irregular release(like WSJ which around every 3 months) meaning people may don't know about release date and buy it later, made series sale slowly compare to popular manga. and from what I look it was an old data. it has high possibility series was grow later.

Golgo 13 is too long, it can't gain new reader anyway nor keep old reader. series like this always decrease dramaticly for said reason.

Oricon is not 100% accurate, but it relaible enough to base on. that what I want to say.