Japan's Weekly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for March 25th - 31st

The weekly manga and light novels rankings for March 25th - 31st

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

Manga
*1, 322,137 *,322,137 Kuroshitsuji Vol.16
*2, 146,409 *,146,409 Berserk Vol.37
*3, 100,762 *;100,762 Kobayashi ga Kawai Sugite Tsurai!! Vol.2
*4, *87,735 *,*87,735 Kanojo wa Uso wo Aishisugiteru Vol.11
*5, *86,512 *,*86,975 Sekirei Vol.14
*6, *78,311 2,750,286 One Piece Vol.69
*7, *71,637 *,138,407 Barakamon Vol.7
*8, *67,118 *,*67,118 Kagerou Days Vol.2
*9, *66,240 *,*66,656 Aozora Yell Vol.12
10, *64,987 *,*65,650 Principal Vol.6

11, *62,012 *,128,000 Billy Bat Vol.11
12, *61,755 *,*61,755 Ichigo Mashimaro Vol.7
13, *58,121 *,205,873 GANTZ Vol.36
14, *54,998 *,259,411 Skip Beat! Vol.32
15, *49,043 *,320,930 Drifters Vol.3
16, *45,742 *,*45,742 Cuticle Tantei Inaba Vol.11
17, *44,968 *,*44,968 Ayakashi Hisen Vol.8
18, *43,761 *,*43,761 Hachimitsu ni Hatsukoi Vol.3
19, *41,838 *,*76,462 Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san. Vol.9
20, *40,373 *,*54,995 Shinrei Tantei Yakumo Vol.9

21, *36,091 *,356,042 Sakamoto Desuga? Vol.1
22, *35,951 *,*35,951 Kagerou Days Official Anthology Comic -DOWNER-
23, *35,597 *,350,768 Chihayafuru Vol.20
24, *35,567 *,595,749 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Vol.3
25, *35,353 *,*35,934 Crimson Spell Vol.5
26, *33,682 *,266,718 Ahiru no Sora Vol.37
27, *32,911 *,325,772 Mix Vol.2
28, *32,833 *,*32,833 Berserk Vol.37 Limited Edition
29, *32,216 *,616,723 Yotsubato! Vol.12
30, *31,974 *,*31,974 Karneval Promise of Tomorrow

Rank 31-50

Light Novel
*1, 38,083 *,*38,083 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Vol.11
*2, 23,852 *,571,345 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou Vol.4
*3, 22,097 *,*22,097 Juuni Kokuki Kaze no Banri, Reimei no Sora Vol.1
*4, 21,417 *,*21,417 Juuni Kokuki Kaze no Banri, Reimei no Sora Vol.2
*5, 21,128 *,*21,128 Kuruneko Vol.11
*6, 17,101 *,*17,101 Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai kara Kuru Sou Desu yo? Vol.7
*7, 16,996 *,*16,996 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu Vol.11 with a Drama CD
*8, 15,802 *,*30,608 Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko. Vol.6
*9, 15,286 *,*31,435 Seikai no Senki Vol.5
10, 13,961 *,*64,154 Date A Live Vol.7

11, 13,655 *,*13,655 Kokoro Connect Asu Random Vol.2
12, 13,443 *,*13,443 Log Horizon Vol.6
13, 12,980 *,*52,515 New Seitokai no Ichizon Vol.2
14, 11,949 *,*16,811 RDG: Red Data Girl Vol.5
15, 11,911 *,*28,065 Five Star Stories Tracer Vol.2
16, 11,748 *,*27,248 Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne Vol.9
17, *9,649 *,**9,649 Over Load Vol.3
18, *9,415 1,283,186 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou Vol.1
19, *8,301 *,**8,301 Hakushaku to Yousei Vol.32

20, *7,867 *,**7,867 Rental Magica Vol.23
21, *7,669 *,909,271 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou Vol.2
22, *7,658 *,787,422 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou Vol.3
23, *6,944 *,*16,428 Seiken no Blacksmith Vol.15
24, *6,781 *,**8,180 Gate Jieitai Kanochi nite Kaku Tatakaeri 2 Enryuu-hen Vol.1
25, *6,742 *,**6,742 MuvLuv Alternative: Total Eclipse Vol.6
26, *6,676 *,112,581 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.9
27, *6,604 *,**7,831 Gate Jieitai Kanochi nite Kaku Tatakaeri 2 Enryuu-hen Vol.2
28, *6,381 *,*15,763 Shurabara! Vol.7
29, *6,103 *,701,126 Thoshokan Sensou Vol.1
30, *6,088 *,*17,647 Ochitekita Naga to Horobiyuku Majo no Kuni Vol.3
31, *6,086 *,**6,086 Muv-Luv Alternative: Schwarzesmarken Vol.5

Source: Oricon Youtaiju

Oh shit baka to test vol. 11 came out? I heard that was going to be the last one...

Hell yea, Kuroshitsuji.

I wonder if Aku no Hana makes it to the top manga list next week.

Glad to see Berserk selling well and to see Billy Bat doubling up too.

It has been three months since the latest chapter of Berserk >_< 10 more years until I can see some sort of ending in sight :(


I'm still waiting for season 3 of the anime -_-


Such fixated dedication! You secretly love the anime, don't you?! XD

Aozora Yell (:

So am I, but we might get our wish, if the LN is over, they may consider finishing up the adaptation as well.

It would be nice. However, season 2 didn't sell nearly as well as season 1 did and I imagine Silver Link really wants a big hit and soon, considering their titles haven't moved a lot of copies in the last four years.

On the other hand, Baka and Test, even season 2, sold significantly better than most of their other shows. My guess is that a studio looks at other factors besides disc sales when choosing to animate a project.

Because if that's not the case, then why on earth hasn't KyoAni animated the third season of Haruhi?

BERSERK YES RIGHT WERE IT SHOULD BE HAM CHEESE CROSSANT CRAZY LETS GO BERSERK YESSSS GUTSSSS

Either the numbers or the ranks are the wrong way round there.

List of best selling light novels released this year by latest figures provided on these threads*:

>20k sales:
01. 0571345 biblia koshodou no jiken techou vol 4
02. 0153836 toaru majutsu no index: new testament vol 6
03. 0112581 mahouka koukou no rettousei vol 9
04. 0107786 Kuroko no Basket TV Anime Characters Book Vol 2
05. 0106388 accel world vol 13
06. 0093106 kuroko no basket tv anime characters book vol 3
07. 0074892 Natsume Yuujinchou
08. 0067228 yu-gi-oh! duel terminal master guide
09. 0064154 date a live vol 7
10. 0061968 inazuma eleven go: chrono stone official guide book
11. 0055079 baka to test to shoukanjuu vol 11 (38083/16996)
12. 0054911 Highschool DxD vol 14
13. 0052515 new seitokai no ichizon vol 2
14. 0049420 sakurasou no pet na kanojo vol 9
15. 0046948 boku wa tomodachi ga sukunai universe vol 2
16. 0044118 Bakuman. Fanbook PCP
17. 0043747 oda nobuna no yabou vol 10
18. 0041944 ore no kanogo to osananajimi ga shuraba sugiru vol 6
19. 0041198 full metal panic! another vol 5
20. 0040034 yahari ore no seishun love come wa machigatteiru vol 7(23813/16221)
21. 0038416 hitsuden
22. 0038259 seirei tsukai no blade dance vol 10
23. 0037479 ro-kyu-bu! vol 12
24. 0035384 kore wa zombie desu ka? vol 12
25. 0033976 gin no ryukishidan vol 7 (?)
26. 0033016 madan no oh to vanadise vol. 6
27. 0031949 ore no kanojo to osananajimi ga shuraba sugiru vol 6.5
28. 0031435 seikai no senki vol 5
29. 0031058 shuen no shiori
30. 0030608 hentai ouji to warawanai neko vol 6
31. 0030392 hitotsu no tairiku no monogatari vol 1
32. 0029558 papa no iukoto wo kikinasai! vol 12
33. 0029345 chrome shelled regios vol 23
34. 0028150 strike the blood vol 6
35. 0028065 five star stories tracer vol 2
36. 0027783 boku, otaryman vol 6
37. 0027248 onii-chan dakedo ai sae areba kankeinai yo ne vol 9
38. 0026820 amagi brilliant park vol 1
39. 0025700 shounen onmyouji vol 39
40. 0022254 hataraku maou-sama vol 7
41. 0022097 juuni kokuki kaze no banri, reimei no sora vol 1
42. 0021417 juuni kokuki kaze no banri, reimei no sora vol 2
43. 0021407 hunter x hunter: phantom rouge
44. 0021248 tsuki tsuki! vol 10
45. 0021128 kuruneko vol 11

10k-19999 sales (note: figures and ranks likely to be highly inaccurate)


*Disclaimer: novels, manga etc. have very significant long tails. This can be clearly seen this week with Toshokan sensou re-ranking after 8 months out of the list, and more than 7 years after its initial release. In that 8 month period it has gained more than 100k unrecorded sales. The lower on the rankings and the longer it's been since the series charted, the less likely it's figures will be.
You can expect any series on this list to have sold an average of at least a thousand copies per week since it last ranked.

gin no ryukishidan 7 is marked (?) as the figure posted seems to be erroneous.
It is assumed that the rankings are incorrect for juuni kokuki, not the figures.

Why durarara novels never make the list,who agrees its awesome ?

http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=442543

Durarara not only on the list but rank #1 for the week.

That is the 1st week for the newest novel. That volume had sold 133564 copies by 18th Nov last year.

glad to see berserk up there, but man, mangaka should try and draw more.

Berserk in second! <3
Miura should release it faster =/

I hope some company will bring someday the Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko and Date A live light novels to the west.
Looks like they sell good in Japan.

Mahouka should be 3rd since it sold 112,581. Kuroko is 107,786.

And did you pull out all these from the threads and typed it or did you get it from a certain site? Because if it's the former then that's a lot of work. Thanks for this I guess.
In 2 weeks, SAO will join this and probably overthrow Index NT.

Wtf, I see shoujo only...Billy Bat looks interesting though.

26, *6,676 *,112,581 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.9

PRAISE ALLAHH

and what's wrong with that? ;)

Good to see Berserk roaring up there.

just not my taste :(

It should make it easily this week (Apr 8~14), since SAO v12's release date is Apr 10. I agree that it'll take at least its 2nd week of charting to overthrow Index... looking at how v11 and SAOP v1 sold.

people should stop read this SHIT

Thanks for the correction. And yes, I gathered the info from these threads. I started doing it at the start of February (when I took data from Dec 31st onwards) because I wanted to see what proportion of sales we get to see in these threads (which I/we will be able to tell once we get the yearly list), as well as to keep track of roughly how well each series was doing, and to provide a place to get figures from if necessary. It generally only takes about 10 minutes a week, though it took longer this week due to me having to put it into a format that could be posted on this thread.

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I'm pretty sure this shit is better than anything you're currently reading. Seeing how you don't have any manga or anime added.

Hell yeah, Barakamon took 7th place. I'm still waiting for an anime adaptation...

Kokoro Connect Asu Random II only selling 13,000? Wow, that's fucking sad.

It came out on 30th March so that's only 2 days of sales. It will almost certainly get a second week on the rankings, and there's a good chance that it will be higher than this first week was.

good to know

Oh, that's relieving to know. Thanks.

Good to see it here :D
Hope the translation, someday, will catch up :<

Date a Live is much more better and deserve a better selling than mahouka shit

NUUUU

They should animate Hachimitsu ni Hatsukoi for the sake of that fucking panda. Too cute.

>You have shit taste, my taste is better
>U!
>NO U!

Take this somewhere else please.

aozora yell!!!!!!!!

Vol 12 is last actually.

I continue to be amazed by the popularity of Sakamoto Desu ka.
Hibi Chouchou! 27k!


Since we are on Light Novel sales,
The previous volume of Kokoro Connect sold around 24k or 26k by the 2nd week and before anime I only saw it on the list for the first week and usually around 10,000(a few times 9k+, almost 10k even for volume8).
Hopefully this volume will continue to hit around 24 or 26k.

If I didn't remember wrongly, past few volumes of Onii-ae sales is 30k+ by the 2nd week. So, Im somewhat disappointed. I think there's 1 or 2times it hits 37k.
A huge drop for Hentai Ouji as compared to the previous volume. I think the sales was around 40k+ or almost 50k by the 2nd week.

Previous volume(or the 1 before) of Date A Live started with 22k in the first week. So, I was expecting it to be around 5-6k for the 2nd week.

Can't wait to see the boost for Hataraku maou-sama after the anime. Hoping it to be at least 40k~ or almost by the 2nd week. Sales for the past few volumes has been somewhat consistent...



Nice to see RDG: Red Data Girl on the list too.

Vol.2 should be 21,417 instead. Sorry.

poor you. :(

14, 11,949 *,*16,811 RDG: Red Data Girl Vol.5

That looks like an anime bump but what about the rest of the volumes? I know several were nearly out of stock when I last checked, Volume 5 is not the most recent and came out ages ago.

There's two different versions:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4041100399 is the original version which came out in 2011
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4041007526/ is a new one which came out on 23rd March

The new version of RDG is the bunko format which is considerably smaller (and usually thinner) than the tankoubon format (which is the one that came out in 2011) but is also cheaper. While conventional novels usually start with the tankoubon format and shifts to bunko after a while if the novel proves to be popular enough, light novels (which RDG is not) usually just start with the cheaper bunko format, perhaps in order to attract teenage consumers who have less money to spare.

BTW, kuuderes_shadow, how to get the shorter amazon url links instead of the ones with long Japanese text in it?

Ahh, I have the hard cover editions... only way I could get 6 of the same type in stock at the same time LOL

Just keep the dp/# and dump the rest to create short links. The number is all that really matters.

Indeed

We don't talk about Aku no Hana

amazon.co.jp/dp/
then add the number that follows the dp/ which is around the middle of the long link.

Eg the haruhi boxset goes from
http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%B6%BC%E5%AE%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%92%E3%81%AE%E6%86%82%E9%AC%B1-%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4-%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88-%E5%88%9D%E5%9B%9E%E9%99%90%E5%AE%9A%E7%94%9F%E7%94%A3-Blu-ray/dp/B003UTS85C/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1365436938&sr=1-1&keywords=haruhi

to
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B003UTS85C

Good to see Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei in the list.