Forum Settings
Forums
New
Apr 15, 2015 10:54 AM
#1

Offline
Jul 2013
749
Series Sales
Sales spectrum: 4 December 1995 - 25 November 1996

*1. 1,015,509 Slam Dunk
*2. *,985,655 Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo
*3. *,629,892 Meitantei Conan
*4. *,535,525 Ike! Inachuu Takyuu-bu
*5. *,542,921 Rurouni Kenshin
*6. *,410,776 Dokaben: Pro Yakyuu-hen
*7. *,348,747 H2
*8. *,295,180 Oishinbo
*9. *,284,088 Hajime no Ippo
10. *,277,906 Ushio to Tora
11. *,263,931 Hayate Densetsu Tokkou no Taku
12. *,256,985 Kyou kara Ore wa!!
13. *,246,241 Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo
14. *,227,904 Shoot!
15. *,218,439 3x3 EYES
16. *,216,254 BOY
17. *,176,425 Shura no Mon
18. *,173,606 Initial D
19. *,171,098 Dear Boys
20. *,167,542 Jaja Uma Grooming Up

Source: Oricon back issues via Justnet
AnaJun 3, 2015 12:16 AM
Reply Disabled for Non-Club Members
Apr 15, 2015 12:22 PM
#2

Offline
Jan 2013
2289
Are those total sales?
Apr 15, 2015 12:41 PM
#3

Offline
Jul 2013
749
Yes.
Apr 15, 2015 12:56 PM
#4

Offline
Jan 2013
2289
dammit manga market got much bigger,seriously why "people" say the market is dying?
Probably thanks to One Piece that got so much bigger
Apr 15, 2015 1:02 PM
#5

Offline
Nov 2010
26413
One Piece in one volume now almost sells as much as 1-5 from then. It's total year sales might be more than 1-20 of this year's total sales.

That's pretty interesting.
Apr 30, 2015 3:51 PM
#6
Offline
Apr 2015
2
These are the sales of the whole year?? There is something wrong, right? I refuse to believe that manga as famous as those sold so little. Look: "284,088 - Hajime no Ippo", a mediocre manga now sells this in ONE WEEK.

It was the "golden age"! Come on! Must be some mistake.
I mean instead of:

*1. 1,015,509 Slam Dunk
*2. *,985,655 Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo
*3. *,629,892 Meitantei Conan
*4. *,535,525 Ike! Inachuu Takyuu-bu
*5. *,542,921 Rurouni Kenshin

Wouldn't it be more plausible in this way?

*1. 10,155,090 Slam Dunk
*2.  9,856,550 Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo
*3.  6,298,920 Meitantei Conan
*4.  5,355,250 Ike! Inachuu Takyuu-bu
*5.  5,429,210 Rurouni Kenshin
MikihisunApr 30, 2015 4:06 PM
Apr 30, 2015 6:17 PM
#7

Offline
Oct 2013
12258
riqueterremoto said:
dammit manga market got much bigger,seriously why "people" say the market is dying?
Probably thanks to One Piece that got so much bigger


One piece was selling those type of sales if you look at the 2000 chart. Its more of the manga industry growing as a whole.
Apr 30, 2015 7:48 PM
#8

Offline
Jan 2013
2289
keragamming said:
riqueterremoto said:
dammit manga market got much bigger,seriously why "people" say the market is dying?
Probably thanks to One Piece that got so much bigger


One piece was selling those type of sales if you look at the 2000 chart. Its more of the manga industry growing as a whole.


That's exactly what I mean,One Piece started to sell more and more and all the others too with the flow.
Apr 30, 2015 9:23 PM
#9

Offline
Jul 2013
749
Mikihisun said:
These are the sales of the whole year?? There is something wrong, right? I refuse to believe that manga as famous as those sold so little. Look: "284,088 - Hajime no Ippo", a mediocre manga now sells this in ONE WEEK.

-snip-

You are free to research on your own to satisfy your doubts. I provide what I find and am not obligated to go beyond that.
AnaApr 30, 2015 9:53 PM
Apr 30, 2015 11:11 PM

Offline
Jun 2014
3667
riqueterremoto said:
keragamming said:


One piece was selling those type of sales if you look at the 2000 chart. Its more of the manga industry growing as a whole.


That's exactly what I mean,One Piece started to sell more and more and all the others too with the flow.


What are you even trying to say? All the manga collectively grew more and more, it's not like they just waited for One Piece to grow in popularity. And stuff like Vagabond sold more than One Piece right in 2001 and doesn't even belong to the same magazine (same with Nana).
May 1, 2015 7:30 AM
Offline
Apr 2015
2
Ana said:
Mikihisun said:
These are the sales of the whole year?? There is something wrong, right? I refuse to believe that manga as famous as those sold so little. Look: "284,088 - Hajime no Ippo", a mediocre manga now sells this in ONE WEEK.

-snip-

You are free to research on your own to satisfy your doubts. I provide what I find and am not obligated to go beyond that.


Oh, no, I'm sorry. I didn't want to offend you or discredit your work. In fact, thanks for all the information. It's just that these numbers are so low that I was kind of shocked. XD
May 1, 2015 8:50 AM

Offline
Jan 2013
2289
Agafin said:
riqueterremoto said:


That's exactly what I mean,One Piece started to sell more and more and all the others too with the flow.


What are you even trying to say? All the manga collectively grew more and more, it's not like they just waited for One Piece to grow in popularity. And stuff like Vagabond sold more than One Piece right in 2001 and doesn't even belong to the same magazine (same with Nana).


Doesn't need to be on the same magazine,just the fact that got more people hooked with manga is enough.Look at One Piece Marineford/Strong world boost,One Piece grew like a monster but others mangas almost without exception started to sell more too.
May 3, 2015 12:15 PM

Offline
Jun 2014
3667
riqueterremoto said:
Agafin said:


What are you even trying to say? All the manga collectively grew more and more, it's not like they just waited for One Piece to grow in popularity. And stuff like Vagabond sold more than One Piece right in 2001 and doesn't even belong to the same magazine (same with Nana).


Doesn't need to be on the same magazine,just the fact that got more people hooked with manga is enough.Look at One Piece Marineford/Strong world boost,One Piece grew like a monster but others mangas almost without exception started to sell more too.


Umm no, after Marineford, no manga started selling better. The only manga that sold better are those that had anime boosts and this has always been the case, if anything the sales of most popular manga like Naruto, Bleach etc dropped
May 17, 2015 4:58 AM

Offline
Dec 2012
24356
riqueterremoto said:
Agafin said:


What are you even trying to say? All the manga collectively grew more and more, it's not like they just waited for One Piece to grow in popularity. And stuff like Vagabond sold more than One Piece right in 2001 and doesn't even belong to the same magazine (same with Nana).


Doesn't need to be on the same magazine,just the fact that got more people hooked with manga is enough.Look at One Piece Marineford/Strong world boost,One Piece grew like a monster but others mangas almost without exception started to sell more too.

Jesus, you One Piece fans are ridiculous.

There is zero correlation between one piece boost in Strong world, and other manga selling more.

This is especially dumb, when you go back to 2006 where Death Note sold more than One Piece, along with Nana in another year. One Piece didn't create the concept of a boost. Nor is it the single reason the manga industry grew over the last decade.
May 18, 2015 2:06 PM

Offline
Oct 2013
1728
All this discussion One Piece increasing the industry or the industry growing over the last decade, is stupid. Why, you ask? Because what you're discussing is the Oricon data. Oricon only started get any kind of reliable data in 2009.
Is not that the manga industry grew, but that Oricon started getting better and more information from stores.

While this data is good to have an idea of the popularity of the series(though it still lacks comparing with right now), it is a really bad way to see the sales in general.

Slam Dunk was since volume 21 printing more than 2 Million copies per volume. From Volume 21 to 23 of Slam Dunk had the record of biggest 1st volume print with 2.5 Million copies.
This record was beat by One Piece in 2002 in volume 24: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2002-07-10/one-piece-breaks-sales-record

Slam Dunk in this period of time had 5 new volumes, and 1 recently out(3 days before the start of the recording).
So I ask you, how a series that prints around 2 Million copies per volume, with 5 new volumes and 1 semi-new volume released in that year, only sold 1,015,509 copies?
How did a series that sold 1 Million copies per year for 6 entire years, selling 6 Million copies in total, was able to in 2004, 7 years later and without manga, get to 100 Million copies sold: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-26/naruto-is-5th-manga-with-100-million+copies-in-print, 94 million more copies, and it didn't even appeared in the oricon charts from 1997-2004?

The answer is simple! It didn't.
May 18, 2015 2:26 PM

Offline
Jun 2014
3667
^Yeah these sales figures were really doubtfully low especially SD and DC. It's still a good list for comparing the popularities of various manga at the time.
Jun 16, 2020 8:29 AM

Offline
Sep 2017
375
Ana said:
Series Sales
Sales spectrum: 4 December 1995 - 25 November 1996

*4. *,535,525 Ike! Inachuu Takyuu-bu

Source: Oricon back issues via Justnet


Who knew that The Ping Pong Club was so fucking heat at the time but it didn't even get any complete english translations after all these years?
yikes
Aug 28, 2022 7:44 PM
Offline
Aug 2022
1
Ana said:

You are free to research on your own to satisfy your doubts. I provide what I find and am not obligated to go beyond that.


He is completely right and the numbers in the OP need to be corrected with his numbers.
Look at these Weekly Shonen Jump circulation numbers from the 1990s

6.53 million copies a year is peak manga magazine circulation. Nowadays Jump mag circulates about 1.3 million which is pitiful by comparison.

So yeah the numbers on the OP are way off and the same goes for the other threads. They all need a "0" added lol.
Slam Dunk sold +120m in total across 31 volumes ffs. Do you think that the bulk of those sales came recently? lmao
And let's not even get started on Dragon Ball rofl.
Reply Disabled for Non-Club Members

More topics from this board

» Manga Sales before 1995

neyugn - Jul 24, 2022

0 by neyugn »»
Jul 24, 2022 2:28 PM

Sticky: » 2020 Japan's Manga Sales

Agafin - Dec 3, 2019

11 by Agafin »»
Nov 29, 2020 5:08 PM

» 2019 Japan's Manga Sales

Agafin - Dec 3, 2019

0 by Agafin »»
Dec 3, 2019 8:30 AM

» 2018 Japan's Manga Sales

Agafin - Dec 3, 2019

0 by Agafin »»
Dec 3, 2019 8:22 AM

Sticky: » France's Manga Sales ( 1 2 )

tsudecimo - Jun 1, 2015

74 by Champ »»
Aug 10, 2019 8:34 AM
It’s time to ditch the text file.
Keep track of your anime easily by creating your own list.
Sign Up Login