Art DGM Volume Covers Thread

[ca12nag3]

Whats Maria doing slightly behind Allen? wish i could read japanese. I gues its about hoshino since her *self-toon* is saying something but its interesting as a whole that 1 image!
would be messed up if she turns out to be his mom or something

My guess is its all about the cosplay stuff in Germany? Anyways its a nice compilation of the characters. Also interesting to see how she drew it if you zoom in ^^. If you look closely she started with herself/Lenalee/Road, then added the faces of Allen/Lavi/Jasdebi-David/Kanda, then the boarder characters. Love the image!

 

[GinRei]

Were any of the "sketchy" panels redone in higher quality?

 

[riki]

DGM Vol. 18 is #3 for the week of June 1st. It has sold 200,369 copies so far.

 

[TitaniumChloride]

Were any of the "sketchy" panels redone in higher quality?

Yup! All the sketchy parts were redone.

DGM Vol. 18 is #3 for the week of June 1st. It has sold 200,369 copies so far.

3rd after One Piece and Bleach is great, but Bakuman having the same amount of sales is pretty surprising.

D.Gray-Man: 200,369
Bakuman: 200,369

I'm kinda wondering if it's a typo. Please let the Bakuman sales figure be a typo.

Edit: Just checked with Oricon (Jap site!) and the most recent figures are
D.Gray-man: 300,630
Bakuman: 200,369

 

[hopeandlight]

Yup! All the sketchy parts were redone.

3rd after One Piece and Bleach is great, but Bakuman having the same amount of sales is pretty surprising.

D.Gray-Man: 200,369
Bakuman: 200,369

I'm kinda wondering if it's a typo. Please let the Bakuman sales figure be a typo.

(I erased what I wrote, before thinking it'd be better just to cross out)
I like D Gray man way more though (no offense Bakuman fans)
volume 18 cover is great
Hoshino sensei puts a lot of effort into her covers

 

[riki]

Edit: Just checked with Oricon (Jap site!) and the most recent figures are
D.Gray-man: 300,630
Bakuman: 200,369

I checked ANN's forums and apparently, the site put up the wrong information for DGM and other manga as well.

 

[andrewsungchehau]

Volume 18's current sales is quite low compare to pass volume. Let's hope it sales well in the following weeks.
Even though I might a bit earlier about this, I hope Volume 19 sale could do very very high sales.(14th + Kanda)

 

[hopeandlight]

no!!!
can someone post than real figures then
would appreciate it

 

[andrewsungchehau]

no!!!
can someone post than real figures then
would appreciate it

http://mangahelpers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48460&page=68
Post no.1010

 

[ying_su]

Well, this is hard to say...but in the first chapters of Timothy arc we werent too interested...even we thought it was some kind of filler!
(Of course, with Hoshino we can always wait for something as shocking as happened at the end of the arc...but it will be in vol 19, right?)
I think is natural.
(Btw, WSJ sure already expected it, the hiatus must affect too.)

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Btw, i just saw the lists: it's ranked the 3rd one in sales!
(just after onepiece y bleach...)
we cant be pessimistic!! ^^

 

[andrewsungchehau]

Well, this is hard to say...but in the first chapters of Timothy arc we werent too interested...even we thought it was some kind of filler!
(Of course, with Hoshino we can always wait for something as shocking as happened at the end of the arc...but it will be in vol 19, right?)
I think is natural.
(Btw, WSJ sure already expected it, the hiatus must affect too.)
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Btw, i just saw the lists: it's ranked the 3rd one in sales!
(just after onepiece y bleach...)
we cant be pessimistic!! ^^

Well, I guess you got the point there. But I'm one of those that doesn't think it's a filler arc or not interesting at all. One of the reason I love D Gray Man is because of these supernatural missions(or cases).
Anyway, as I say, let's hope it sells well in the following weeks.

 

[ying_su]

Well, I guess you got the point there. But I'm one of those that doesn't think it's a filler arc or not interesting at all. One of the reason I love D Gray Man is because of these supernatural missions(or cases).
Anyway, as I say, let's hope it sells well in the following weeks.

Hey, hey. I really like this arc too! But at the beginning some of us thought (i include myself here^^) maybe it was some filler or funny story as that "destruction of the order": Remenber all that "phantom G" thing!
(And again: what i've been saying for a while now: with Hoshino-sensei something that doenst look like "important" will become really important!!!)
I DONT think "Phantom G" was a filler arc!
XDDDD

 

[shinobi]

Great news about the sales! D.Gray-Man still going strong...

 

[Siberia]

if we count the first week sales of previous volumes, each volume is dropped by 7%, 5% and recently 12%. It might be a sign that some people are losing interests in it becoz of some reasons. But hitaus does have some adverse effects on its popularity when the story goes too slowly.

btw, looking forward to breaking 500k copies!!

FYI
*2　－　*,387,543　*,387,543　*1　D.Gray-man 15
*2　--　*,359,598　*,359,598　*1　D.Gray-man 16
*3　--　*,341,043　*,341,043　*1　D.Gray-man 17
*3　--　*,300,630　*,300,630　*1　D.Gray-man 18

 

[shinobi]

Sad but it's true. people will start dropping the series when they get bored of waiting... I dropped some series before because of hiatus or irregular release (but for DGM I just can't do it!). the story and art of DGM are both good, if the continuity was as the other popular series it'd have sold better I guess.

 

[riki]

D.Gray-man Vol. 17 is #14 in the Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Volume: 1st Half of 2009. It has sold 611,100 copies so far.

 

[andrewsungchehau]

D.Gray-man Vol. 17 is #14 in the Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Volume: 1st Half of 2009. It has sold 611,100 copies so far.

That's great. Hope it sold more.xD

 

[shinobi]

I think this is good ^ ^

 

[Symbolic Zero]

D.Gray-man is still on the map ;D~ (yei!!), cause it's even above of a single vol. of Reborn or Gintama (both huge popular series).

If only DGM relesead volumes more often, it would been in the another ranking T-T

 

[andrewsungchehau]

D.Gray-man is still on the map ;D~ (yei!!), cause it's even above of a single vol. of Reborn or Gintama (both huge popular series).

If only DGM relesead volumes more often, it would been in the another ranking T-T

I agree. If it got more volumes sold, it would be higher than Hitman Reborn and Gintama. Hope it surpass Bleach sold.(Just wishful thought)