| Here is the weekly manga sales ranking top 30 for Dec 1st - 7th. Finally, Oricon database got back to normal. This week's Oricon manga ranking hasn't uploaded again. So I quoted Bunkyo-do ranking for this week, too. Rank/ This week's sales/ Total sales/ Title *1, 1,045,937 1,045,937 One Piece vol.52 *2, *,551,006 *,551,006 Bleach vol.36 *3, *,341,043 *,341,043 D.Gray-man vol.17 *4, *,270,743 *,270,743 Gintama vol.26 *5, *,144,453 *,408,734 Vagabond vol.29 *6, *,128,902 *,128,902 Claymore vol.15 *7, *,113,306 *,485,599 Kimi ni Todoke vol.8 *8, *,112,127 *,272,226 3 Gatsu no Lion vol.2 *9, *,*95,212 *,*95,212 Monster Hunter Orage vol.2 10, *,*69,686 *,*69,686 Faster than a Kiss vol.4 11, *,*51,960 *,*51,960 Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro vol.19 12, *,*50,511 *,*50,511 Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo vol.162 13, *,*49,911 *,*93,528 Junjo Romantica vol.11 14, *,*48,016 *,*93,999 Ikigami vol.6 15, *,*44,436 *,*44,436 Shugo Chara! vol.8 16, *,*38,658 *,*84,094 Gaku Minna no Yama vol.8 17, *,*38,106 *,*38,106 Double Arts vol.3 18, *,*35,835 *,237,595 Mushishi vol.10 19, *,*27,860 *,*27,860 Shinjuku Swan vol.16 20, *,*27,736 *,*87,559 Switch Girl!! vol.7 21, *,*27,448 *,*71,724 Tome Hane! vol.4 22, *,*27,297 *,*27,297 Onii-chan to Issho vol.10 23, *,*27,052 *,*97,159 FIVE vol.10 24, *,*26,810 *,*91,723 Kaze Hikaru vol.25 25, *,*26,070 *,217,401 Major vol.69 26, *,*26,004 *,933,260 Naruto vol.44 *released four weeks ago 27, *,*25,862 *,*25,862 Shaman King vol.19 Complete Edition 28, *,*25,495 *,*25,495 Shaman King vol.20 Complete Edition 29, *,*23,222 *,*23,222 Saru Lock vol.19 30, *,*23,094 *,273,559 Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE vol.25 Souce: Oricon manga ranking Last week: Japan's Weekly Manga Ranking For Nov 24 - 30 [Updated] Additional info: Due to the jump of the paper price, Kodansha had raised the price of Tankoubon from 420 yen to 440 yen in this December. Here is this week's Bunkyo-do ranking. |
dtshykDec 3, 2009 6:07 PM
| glad to see one piece on top. =) |
| Glad to see Naruto so low on the list. |
| Hopefully you'll update with the sales numbers, dtshyk. I am really curious to see how much One Piece vol. 52 is separated from everyone else. Considering how well volume 51 sold, it could be a lot, even if #2 is Bleach. |
| yes for D.gray-man, Claymore, Vagabond. |
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vindemon64 said: Hopefully you'll update with the sales numbers, dtshyk. I am really curious to see how much One Piece vol. 52 is separated from everyone else. Considering how well volume 51 sold, it could be a lot, even if #2 is Bleach. This is quoted from 2channel. Oricon released the sales of top 5 in the newspaper. *1, 1,045,937 One Piece vol.52 *2, *,551,006 Bleach vol.36 *3, *,341,043 D.Gray-man vol.17 *4, *,270,743 Gintama vol.26 *5, *,144,453 Vagabond vol.29 I'd like to say "Do your job, Oricon! " |
| I am dismayed to see Double Arts at position 19. This means it did relatively well in terms of sales, even though it was cancelled prematurely. Shame. |
dtshyk said: vindemon64 said: Hopefully you'll update with the sales numbers, dtshyk. I am really curious to see how much One Piece vol. 52 is separated from everyone else. Considering how well volume 51 sold, it could be a lot, even if #2 is Bleach. This is quoted from 2channel. Oricon released the sales of top 5 in the newspaper. *1, 1,045,937 One Piece vol.52 *2, *,551,006 Bleach vol.36 *3, *,341,043 D.Gray-man vol.17 *4, *,270,743 Gintama vol.26 *5, *,144,453 Vagabond vol.29 I'd like to say "Do your job, Oricon! " Sweet. Thanks for the info man. You totally rock. Ah, half a million above Bleach vol. 36 and only ~1 million total. I think that was a bit lower from the 1.3-1.4 million of volume 51. No matter. Still nice to see how popular One Piece is compared to everything else. It tells exactly how epic the story is getting. =P |
vindemon64 said: Ah, half a million above Bleach vol. 36 and only ~1 million. I think that was a bit lower from the 1.3-1.4 million of volume 51. No matter. Still nice to see how popular One Piece is compared to everything else. :) The number of the first week sales doesn't change so much. Total sales numbers One Piece vol.50 1 week_ 1,074,745 2 weeks 1,306,664 8 weeks 1,542,881 One Piece vol.51 1 week_ 1,029,249 2 weeks 1,364,053 8 weeks 1,608,743 |
dtshyk said: The number of the first week sales doesn't change so much. Oh, I know. I am aware of that. What I was referring to earlier was that I was under the assumption volume 51 had a higher sales number in its first week compared to 52 (by a couple hundred thousand at the least). Which is not the case, as they are roughly the same. |
vindemon64 said: Which is not the case, as they are roughly the same. yeah, the numbers are surprisingly constant. I think the sales of One Piece reflects well the fact that the Tankoubon market in Japan has saturated. Here is a graph of Japanese manga market. 1000 = 1 billion dollars Blue: the total sales of manga magazines Red: the total sales of Tankoubon Less and less people read manga magazines, but the popularity of Tankoubon hasn't changed at all since 1991. |
| Monster Hunter Orage is Weekly?Kaze Hikaru is shounen?There is something weird about it. |
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| Sangatsu no lion volume 2 is out? Hmmm... I need to go to the bookstore now and get my hands on it <3 :D Yay for it being #7. |
| wow bleach's cover is awesome |
逃げちゃ駄目だ。 |
nihil said: wow bleach's cover is awesome agreed. |
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dtshyk said: yeah, the numbers are surprisingly constant. I think the sales of One Piece reflects well the fact that the Tankoubon market in Japan has saturated. Here is a graph of Japanese manga market. 1000 = 1 billion dollars Blue: the total sales of manga magazines Red: the total sales of Tankoubon Less and less people read manga magazines, but the popularity of Tankoubon hasn't changed at all since 1991. You know, that's really quite interesting. Actually, rather than Tankoubon numbers staying the same, its slightly going up in the past 15 years or so. Which makes sense because people usually buy them for collections and the fact they are probably cheaper in the end than separately buying/subscribing to the mags. The magazine drop is roughly 35%. That's a shit load of money they are not raking in anymore. I wonder what the cause of it is? I'm sure there are a bunch of reasons, but the numbers to drop so significantly is cause for alarm. I guess all of the people who bought the magazines in the mid-90s grew up and only follow a few stories from their younger years, and thus invest in the Tankoubon. That, and the internet has made accessing chapters for free so much more easier. Makes sense why a lot of mangas are getting axed rather quickly nowadays. |
vindemon64 said: The magazine drop is roughly 35%. That's a shit load of money they are not raking in anymore. I wonder what the cause of it is? I'm sure there are a bunch of reasons, but the numbers to drop so significantly is cause for alarm. I guess all of the people who bought the magazines in the mid-90s grew up and only follow a few stories from their younger years, and thus invest in the Tankoubon. That, and the internet has made accessing chapters for free so much more easier. Makes sense why a lot of mangas are getting axed rather quickly nowadays. The impact of the illegal scans of manga is quite small in Japan because the manga books are cheap. The biggest problem is the prevalence of the secondhand book stores. Nobody knows what's the exact reason for the drop of the manga magazine sales, but there are some candidates: 1. the large size of a manga magazine (20 x 30 x 2-4 cm) has been outdated in the age of mobile phones. It's just too large to carry. 2. The interests of people have diverged. There no longer exists a nation-wide mega hit title like Dragon Ball. 3. The number of manga magazines is excessively large so that most of the magazines have only one or two (sometimes none) popular titles. It's natural that people prefer to collect Tankoubon rather than purchase periodical magazines, which also include many unpopular titles. |
| Nothing im reading or interested in but roflcopter " naruto... |
Holy_KnightXIX said: I am dismayed to see Double Arts at position 19. This means it did relatively well in terms of sales, even though it was cancelled prematurely. Shame. I wish they burn with regret for cancelling that awesome manga.... for shame, it really had lots of potential. |
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| Ohh, it's nice to see Gintama near the top. ^_^ |
AnarchistDec 17, 2008 7:15 PM
Maora said: Yes,look how the title of the volume is organizerd and how is Hirako good is this shot,he is my favorite.nihil said: wow bleach's cover is awesome agreed. |
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LightMetatron said: Monster Hunter Orage is Weekly?Kaze Hikaru is shounen?There is something weird about it. Monster Hunter Orage is monthly, but it's about this week's sales, and it got sold this week. And Kaze Hikaru isn't shounen, but who said anything about that? |
| One Piece where it should be on top. |
radiantfire said: Gina_Kin said: Glad to see Naruto so low on the list. What's wrong with Naruto? I mean it's a whole lot better than Bleach ATM Nice to see the others though In my opinion, both are equally dull ATM. |
| I liked Bleach at first, but now I'm just tired of it. Glad to see Tsubasa Reservoir is on the top 30. I think the series is great. |
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| Yes! One Piece is at the top where it deserves to be! |
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| One Piece kick ass!! Nearly doubles the amount of sales for Bleach, and is 3 times D.Gray-Man!! Even Naruto in 4 WEEKS couldn't sell as much as One Piece in just 1... That's amazing!! I've been waiting for a lot of time for these three series to clash around the same time of the year to be able to compare them like this, and obviously, ONE PIECE is the BEST!!!!! And then people say that One Piece is not worth the time... lol! |
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| lol, its attack of the Shounen Jump manga in the top 5. One Piece's ranking at the top comes to no surprise at all. Next week should be interesting when the Weekly Shonen Magazine compilations are released (Ippo and Air Gear in particular). |
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| Hoho, Monster Hunter Orage in 9th. Fairly recent manga and it's on the Top 10 already. Japan sure loves Monster Hunter. |
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masterjjx said: One Piece is where it should be ,on top. seconded \o/ |
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