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Apr 8, 2015 11:06 PM

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Milano12 said:
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*1. 97,587 126,837 Kagerou Daze Vol.6


98,977 217,197 Kagerou Days Vol.5 (week 2)

I wonder what happened?!


The week 1 for this volume was just it getting a last-minute early release. The release date was originally listed as Monday of last week (ie the first day reported in the above sales), which was KCG Bunko's release day for April (yes I know it was in March - but that's the way these things work). It ended up getting released on the Saturday of the previous week instead but most people wouldn't have noticed this, particularly as it was still scheduled for the Monday release as of 4 days earlier - and most stores probably didn't have it in stock on the early date.

On the other hand, volume 5 also got a 2 day first week, but that had always been the intention. Hence the difference beteen a 118k week 1 then and a 29k week 1 this time.
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LOL and people say bleach won't get a 2nd anime XD
Look at this disgrace getting an anime XD lmfao

26. *,*34,484 *,*34,484 Kekkai Sensen Vol.10
Apr 8, 2015 11:14 PM

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Light novel rankings from Oricon Website:

*1. 6,097 *18,598 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
*2. 4,734 152,126 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru
*3. 4,291 *16,374 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka 2
*5. 3,483 *89,209 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru 2
*6. 3,299 *22,746 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka 3
*7. 2,705 *68,785 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru 3
*8. 2,611 *27,495 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka 4
*9. 2,438 *42,472 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru 7
10. 2,384 156,939 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru 9

DanMachi vol 1 appears for the first time since 20th Jan 2013 (2 weeks of data)
DanMachi vol 2 appears for the first time since 17th Feb 2013 (1 week of data)
DanMachi vol 3 appears for the first time since 19th May 2013 (1 week of data, 2 versions)
DanMachi vol 4 appears for the first time since 22nd Dec 2013 (2 versions - 1 week of data for the LE, 2 weeks for the RE)
OreGairu vol 7 appears for the first time since 24th March 2013 (1 week of data, 2 versions)

#4 was ansatsu kyoushitsu - which is on the weekly rankings

Figures in red means that there are weeks missing from the data.
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What? Bleach? How come?
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LOL and people say bleach won't get a 2nd anime XD
Look at this disgrace getting an anime XD lmfao

26. *,*34,484 *,*34,484 Kekkai Sensen Vol.10


It's like an anime of a manga isn't made to advertise said manga or something.

It's like Magi didn't go from 70k to 600k
It's like AnE didn't go from 50k to 800k
It's like Seven Deadly Sins didn't go from 120k to 600k
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28. *6,702 **6,702 Juuou Mujin no Fafnir Vol.7

Should be volume 8.
Apr 9, 2015 12:48 AM

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Moodie said:
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*1. 97,587 126,837 Kagerou Daze Vol.6

I'm surprised this sells so well o.O.... I mean, I know the anime was fairly bad but the songs themselves are AMAZING (Outer science <3), but the series did better then I thought.
it was one of the highest selling light novels of 2014 wtf are u surprised for


Kagerou Days Vol.5 was the best selling light novel volume of 2014 (Biblia is not a light novel), but in terms of light novel series, it was the 3rd best selling behind Mahouka and SAO.
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Apr 9, 2015 1:09 AM

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Ramkec said:
Bleach and Gintama stay in top 10.
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Don't you people realize that the ranking numbers are completely worthless?

It's the figure sales, are what's important.
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Can't wait to see how snk does next week.
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One Piece, man :O
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Dat OP domination and I'm loving it <3
Apr 9, 2015 4:11 AM

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> *8. *,132,801 *,132,801 Boku no Hero Academia Vol.3
This is building up quite a reputation in these past few months. Also glad to see One Punch Man as well. I wouldn't be too surprised if Owari no Seraph hits top 5 later this year.

If there is enough content to adapt from BnH manga then imagine the sales boost it will get given how popular it is right now without anime.

I hope Owari no Seraph gets a good boost from the anime. If anything, the second cour will be much better than the mediocre first cour as the story gets better from chapter 12.
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Owari no Seraph only 101,324 !! I did not read the manga, but 1st episode of the anime was masterpiece. Almost as good as Attack on titan 1st episode. It deserve to be in the top of list.
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*3. *,192,225 *,192,225 One Punch-Man Vol.8

woow . 0_0
Apr 9, 2015 6:37 AM

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Bleach on top 2 T^T I miss the anime
Apr 9, 2015 10:17 AM

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tsudecimo said:
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How much did Bleach sell at its peak?

2009 sales, I think.

03, *6,471,021 Bleach

14, *,955,085 Bleach vol.36
15, *,944,066 Bleach vol.37
16, *,888,622 Bleach vol.38

nonono, after volume 59 was out, overall sales was 82,070,000.
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iamagundam said:
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2009 sales, I think.

03, *6,471,021 Bleach

14, *,955,085 Bleach vol.36
15, *,944,066 Bleach vol.37
16, *,888,622 Bleach vol.38

nonono, after volume 59 was out, overall sales was 82,070,000.

We are talking about highest sales per volume, not total sales.
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One Piece BOOM!!!

Just like I've said, Kagerou Daze will sell like cakes this week

And aw my gosh, just look at Triple-ass numbers. I love it. I love it so far
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tsudecimo said:
iamagundam said:

nonono, after volume 59 was out, overall sales was 82,070,000.

We are talking about highest sales per volume, not total sales.

look at it closely. 82070000/59=1391016,949152542 So, it means that vol.36 wasn't the best selling volume.
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What you are referring to is an average, what I'm referring to, is the literal highest volume sale.

For example, HxH average sale per volume is more than 2 million, but there is no volume, that sold 2 million in it's first print, or in one year of release.
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tsudecimo said:
What you are referring to is an average, what I'm referring to, is the literal highest volume sale.

For example, HxH average sale per volume is more than 2 million, but there is no volume, that sold 2 million in it's first print, or in one year of release.

Question was "How much did Bleach sell at its peak?", and averege proves that 2009 wasn't even close to its peak.
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iamagundam said:
tsudecimo said:
What you are referring to is an average, what I'm referring to, is the literal highest volume sale.

For example, HxH average sale per volume is more than 2 million, but there is no volume, that sold 2 million in it's first print, or in one year of release.

Question was "How much did Bleach sell at its peak?", and averege proves that 2009 wasn't even close to its peak.

...

I feel like you don't know what average means. Please, post where/when Bleach had more than 6 million in a year?

Last recorded yearly sales, I could find in the internet was 2006, and going from 2006-2014, It had it's best sales in 2009.
Apr 9, 2015 11:36 AM

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tsudecimo said:
I feel like you don't know what average means. Please, post where/when Bleach had more than 6 million in a year?
If you use the math and logic you will find out that it was before 2006.

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Last recorded yearly sales, I could find in the internet was 2006, and going from 2006-2014, It had it's best sales in 2009.

"Last best sales you could find" isn't equal "Best sales overall".
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iamagundam said:
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I feel like you don't know what average means. Please, post where/when Bleach had more than 6 million in a year?
If you use the math and logic you will find out that it was before 2006.

So just a baseless assumption.
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I guess it would be 2004 or 2005, because of the anime boost, I thought the anime started in 2006, so that's why I claimed 2009.

2009 is the last recorded peak, then.
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iamagundam said:
tsudecimo said:
What you are referring to is an average, what I'm referring to, is the literal highest volume sale.

For example, HxH average sale per volume is more than 2 million, but there is no volume, that sold 2 million in it's first print, or in one year of release.

Question was "How much did Bleach sell at its peak?", and averege proves that 2009 wasn't even close to its peak.


Those figures you quoted, though, mostly consist of long tail data. The sales figures you quoted above for 2009 show that less than half of the sales in that year were for the volumes released that year.

Furthermore, I assume your 82070k figure is number shipped, rather than number sold. Number shipped will always be higher than number sold (sometimes significantly so). Furthermore, number sold will always be higher than the number that Oricon reports as having been sold, given that Oricon doesn't include all retailers/sales methods.
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Z4k said:
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If you use the math and logic you will find out that it was before 2006.

So just a baseless assumption.

Base was "after volume 59 was out, overall sales was 82,070,000.", genius. lol

kuuderes_shadow said:

Furthermore, I assume your 82070k figure is number shipped, rather than number sold.

As far as i know "Sold".
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iamagundam said:


kuuderes_shadow said:

Furthermore, I assume your 82070k figure is number shipped, rather than number sold.

As far as i know "Sold".


What's the source? If it comes from the publisher (which just about all announcements of total sales figures for series do) it will be one of the following three things:
- copies printed (unlikely - this is commonly used for individual volumes but for a series as a whole it's meaningless)
- copies shipped
- copies shipped minus copies returned
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kuuderes_shadow said:
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As far as i know "Sold".


What's the source? If it comes from the publisher (which just about all announcements of total sales figures for series do) it will be one of the following three things:
- copies printed (unlikely - this is commonly used for individual volumes but for a series as a whole it's meaningless)
- copies shipped
- copies shipped minus copies returned

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYjfbZjeYc Sources listed under the video.
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Hopefully Shokugeki no Souma's sales grow since the anime is airing now!~

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYjfbZjeYc Sources listed under the video.


Thanks. Searching around the linked sources it seems the 82070k figure comes from the Shueisha's Media Guide 2013, so yes it is from the publisher.

Incidentally, that site lists figures which could provide a different way of measuring when the series was at its peak - the initial print run figures for individual volumes. Note that this one thus comes under the "copies printed" and is based entirely on how well Shueisha expected the volume to sell rather than how well it actually did sell, but these figures peaked in the mid 20s - early 30s in volume numbers, and were just starting their drop during 2009.
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- copies printed (unlikely - this is commonly used for individual volumes but for a series as a whole it's meaningless)

That gets used for sales outside of Japan though. For example, Naruto was announced to have 200 million prints worldwide. Announcement like this too.

Also US manga sales, are prints, not the actual figures if I'm not mistaken.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYjfbZjeYc Sources listed under the video.

Hmm so toriko sold about 6 million copies in the span of 6 volumes? XD vol 24)14 million to vol 30) 20 million
Good stuff :)

The art is amazing as always, but the garou arc is where it's at XD
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I am surprised by how well Assassination Classroom in doing. I think for the first half of 2015 it might actually be #3 in rankings in sales with OP being #1 and AOT being #2. The thing with Assassination Classroom is that old volumes are selling too. For some reason lot of people are buying the old volumes. I actually see a competition between Assassination classroom, Tokyo Ghoul and Nanatsu no Taizai for #3 spot for the first half of 2015.
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I am surprised by how well Assassination Classroom in doing. I think for the first half of 2015 it might actually be #3 in rankings in sales with OP being #1 and AOT being #2. The thing with Assassination Classroom is that old volumes are selling too. For some reason lot of people are buying the old volumes. I actually see a competition between Assassination classroom, Tokyo Ghoul and Nanatsu no Taizai for #3 spot for the first half of 2015.

Tokyo ghoul and Tokyo ghoul:re's sales are counted separately so it won't chart near the top ten this time.
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Here are the weekly manga series sales from Nov 17 to Apr 5 (as the 2014 yearlies was counted up to Nov 16, 2014). Oricon only counts sales up to rank 500 for manga individual volumes, so these series sales are the Top 10 combined sales from the Top 500 manga every week. This should somehow help in figuring out which manga series will be the top sellers for the 1st half of 2015 through a spreadsheet or whatever.

Ignore the "weekly charted sales", as I only copied and pasted the data from the News Club, before we stopped updating it 2 months ago.

Rank / Weekly Sales / Weekly Charted Sales / Series Title
Nov 17~23

Nov 24~30

Dec 1~7

Dec 8~14

Dec 15~21

Dec 22~28

Dec 29~Jan 4

Jan 5~11

Jan 12~18

Jan 19~25

Jan 26~Feb 1

Feb 2~8

Feb 9~15

Feb 16~22

Feb 23~Mar 1

Mar 2~8

Mar 9~15

Mar 16~22

Mar 23~29

Mar 30~Apr 6
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Counting only the figures in the '000s columns the top 5 things from the above data are:
- Nanatsu no Taizai 5800k
- One Piece 4958k
- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu 3316k
- SnK 2105k
- Haikyuu 1753k

Tokyo Ghoul is 1242k, in 9th (although including TG:Re it comes a little above SnK)
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kuuderes_shadow said:
Counting only the figures in the '000s columns the top 5 things from the above data are:
- Nanatsu no Taizai 5800k
- One Piece 4958k
- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu 3316k
- SnK 2105k
- Haikyuu 1753k

Tokyo Ghoul is 1242k, in 9th (although including TG:Re it comes a little above SnK)


Those data above looks weird and does not seem to make much sense. Why is there 2 numbers next to each other. But anyway I went back and looked at some data, any NNT really killed it. But not sure about the final numbers you guys showed. But it looks like NNT is in top 2 at least.
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Dragon88 said:
kuuderes_shadow said:
Counting only the figures in the '000s columns the top 5 things from the above data are:
- Nanatsu no Taizai 5800k
- One Piece 4958k
- Ansatsu Kyoushitsu 3316k
- SnK 2105k
- Haikyuu 1753k

Tokyo Ghoul is 1242k, in 9th (although including TG:Re it comes a little above SnK)


Those data above looks weird and does not seem to make much sense. Why is there 2 numbers next to each other. But anyway I went back and looked at some data, any NNT really killed it. But not sure about the final numbers you guys showed. But it looks like NNT is in top 2 at least.


First column is the weekly rank, second is the weekly sales from the Top 500 manga (as released by Oricon), third is the weekly sales that charted in the Top 50 manga (as released by Oricon, but I tallied this up). So the third column sales will be less than or equal to (if all the sales are in the Top 50 manga) the second column sales.

I even provided a key there... so do I need to make it more explicit?
Rank / Weekly Sales / Weekly Charted Sales / Series Title
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Ejc said:
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Those data above looks weird and does not seem to make much sense. Why is there 2 numbers next to each other. But anyway I went back and looked at some data, any NNT really killed it. But not sure about the final numbers you guys showed. But it looks like NNT is in top 2 at least.


First column is the weekly rank, second is the weekly sales from the Top 500 manga (as released by Oricon), third is the weekly sales that charted in the Top 50 manga (as released by Oricon, but I tallied this up). So the third column sales will be less than or equal to (if all the sales are in the Top 50 manga) the second column sales.

I even provided a key there... so do I need to make it more explicit?
Rank / Weekly Sales / Weekly Charted Sales / Series Title

Cool thanks. Actually I figured it out while looking at other sales data. I was looking at the top 50 weekly sales data since November 16 2014 and I figured that out from there. Also a quick question lot of those titles are written in Japanese, do you have the english translation or is NNT not in the top 10 after the week of January 25th.
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@Dragon88

I made a spreadsheet with all the data, with total sales so far calculated:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10K_N1R6l8reAqL4mioBECSNIJ6iqDo2FcouN79dg0Vc/edit?pli=1#gid=956523096

Nanatsu no Taizai has charted every single week since November 17, 2014.

Based on the data here, the most likely top 10 will be...
*1 5,810,510 七つの大罪
*2 4,960,245 ONE PIECE
*3 3,323,513 暗殺教室
*4 2,107,394 進撃の巨人
*5 1,752,514 ハイキュー!!
*6 1,545,441 テラフォーマーズ
*7 1,516,819 東京喰種:re [Corrected due to weekly sales falling under the thresholds]
*8 1,497,860 アオハライド
*9 1,341,461 東京喰種
10 1,272,507 NARUTO

However, bear in mind we only get the Top 10 Manga Series each week. I have included the thresholds in the 2nd last column of the spreadsheet, so series that did not make the top 10 in a week did not necessarily sell 0 copies for that week. If a series had volumes in the top 500 manga, those are counted, but may not be enough to make the top 10.

See ONE PIECE for example, it only has data there for 7/20 of the weeks so far in the first half of 2015. It could very well be beating Nanatsu by now due to the thresholds, but obviously it will be above it eventually due to how strong its sales are.
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Thanks man. This must of took you a long time. This is really cool data. And yeah since its only top 10, One Piece may be winning though not guaranteed either way. Anyway after this week I don't think NNt is going to be in the first place since this will be the second week that OP's new volume will be out. That should give additional of 1 million + sells. But NNT is really killing it, though not surprised by it.
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LOL and people say bleach won't get a 2nd anime XD
Look at this disgrace getting an anime XD lmfao

26. *,*34,484 *,*34,484 Kekkai Sensen Vol.10


-_- Honestly Studio Bones should be animating Toriko now that Toei has dropped it. Studio Bones will do an amazing job with Toriko and I see their art-style fitting well with Toriko's.

Toriko does need an anime though
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