Publisher Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings (2009-2015)

[Kaiten]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Be careful; publishers have a habit of "over reporting" how many copies they sold. What Shueisha says it shipped and what it actually did can be two very different numbers.

 

[DeidaraGrimmjow]

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I short hand them as "million sellers" as new volumes always sell that much by the time next one comes out. Bleach and Hunter x Hunter can take a long time to hit that mark, at least over the last few years.

Do you mean that Bleach and HXH are decreasing in popularity?

 

[Koshi_Inaba]

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Do you mean that Bleach and HXH are decreasing in popularity?

No, I don't think Kaiten meant it like that. It's just unlike Naruto, One Piece or Hagaren, Bleach and HxH doesn't reach 1 million during their run on the top 30 chart. It took them longer to reach 1 million. Both are big, but not as big as those 3.

 

[Kaiten]

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^Right. I'm not sure how popular either were before I started following sales, but neither seem to have lost readers. Every volume of each series makes the year end top 50 charts.

 

[DeidaraGrimmjow]

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Oh okay. I wonder if the Big three's sales are proportionate to the time that they have been around. Bleach is the least popular out of the big three and it is also the youngest. One Piece is the most popular and it is also the oldest. One Piece is 14 volumes ahead of Bleach and 7 ahead of Naruto. So might we see Naruto and Bleach sell as much as One Piece (or at least really close) when they reach 54 volumes? At the very least I think Bleach might equal Naruto when it gets more volumes. What do you guys think?

 

[Kaiten]

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Sorry, I'm not sure it's going to work like that. I just can't see Naruto surpassing One Piece, nor can I see Bleach leap frogging Naruto, Nodame, and FMA. Not at this point. It's sales are to consistent, there has not been anything to lead me to believe it is getting more popular. The only series I can think of that could move into the top 5 anytime soon is St. Young Men, which after three volumes is almost as popular as Bleach and Hunter x Hunter. Kuroshitsuji could too, but it's sales have been steady for a while now.

 

[DeidaraGrimmjow]

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I didn't think so. I just wanted someone else's input. But while Bleach is remaining consistant, One Piece is increasing isn't it? Man, that series is something else. And on the topic of Kuroshitsuji, it just popped out of nowhere for me. One minute its just another series in GFantasy. Another minute it's selling like 500,000 copies and an anime sequel announced by its 7th volume.

 

[Koshi_Inaba]

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I didn't think so. I just wanted someone else's input. But while Bleach is remaining consistant, One Piece is increasing isn't it? Man, that series is something else. And on the topic of Kuroshitsuji, it just popped out of nowhere for me. One minute its just another series in GFantasy. Another minute it's selling like 500,000 copies and an anime sequel announced by its 7th volume.

I've been questioning myself the same thing. Saint young men and Kuroshitsuji are the black horse manga of recent time. Both easily surpass 600k despite having few volume out. Can anyone tell me why both become super popular quickly? While I'm a big fan of both series and couldn't be happier that they are both a success, I really want to know the real reason why both are very successful

 

[Siberia]

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Kuroshitsuji jumped so quickly becoz of its anime (the anime just caught more audience' attention on Kuroshitsuji but the anime itself doesn't follow the manga, so I don't see a strong connection how the anime boosts the sales of manga)

Kuroshitsuji is just a magic/miracle...

 

[salam-daim]

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Oh okay. I wonder if the Big three's sales are proportionate to the time that they have been around. Bleach is the least popular out of the big three and it is also the youngest. One Piece is the most popular and it is also the oldest. One Piece is 14 volumes ahead of Bleach and 7 ahead of Naruto. So might we see Naruto and Bleach sell as much as One Piece (or at least really close) when they reach 54 volumes? At the very least I think Bleach might equal Naruto when it gets more volumes. What do you guys think?

ONE PIECE is very popular in japon because it's a legend no relation to number of volumes , it's the best series ongoing and have a lot of adepts, and his the faster exceeded the figure of 100 million volumes sold in history of manga in japon; naruto and bleach are popular but not a legend
next month (September) one piece volume 55 will realese in 04/09
and I swear it will be the most sold by the Oricon ranking for 2 week and meaby can exceded 1.000.000 for the first week

 

[Koshi_Inaba]

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One Piece always sold around 1 million on it's first week, no worries there.

 

[Akiyama]

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Comic Rankings 8/10 - 8/16

1. Fullmetal Alchemist volume 23 (849,067) (Shounen GanGan)

2. Nodame Cantabile volume 22 (733,157/741,664) (Kiss)

3. March Comes in Like a Lion volume 3 (275,213) (Young Animal)

4. Naruto volume 47 (177,698/961,525) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

5. BLEACH volume 40 (126,979/716,640) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

6. Say "I love You" volume 3 (96,205/96,239) (Dessert)

7. Shin Prince of Tennis volume 1 (83,145/306,979) (Jump Square)

8. Amanchu! volume 1 (68,948/69,000) (Comic Blade)

9. Bakuman volume 4 (66,110/308,855) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

10. Monster Hunter Orage volume 4 (58,485/183,866) (Shounen Rival)

11. Eyeshield 21 volume 36 (47956/212,970) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

12. Toriko volume 5 (46,715/186,365) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

13. My Heavenly Hockey Club volume 13 (45,650/45,689) (Bessatsu Friend)

14. Midnight Secretary volume 7 (41,606/41,774) (Petit Comic)

15. Nurarihyon no mago volume 6 (40,492/167,206) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

16. To LOVE Ru volume 15 (39,406/168,896) Weekly Shonen Jump

17. Sengoku Tenshō-ki volume 6 (38,774/101,782) (Weekly Young Magazine)

18. Love Attack volume 13 (36,088/36,093) (Bessatsu Friend)

19. Oboreru Knife volume 8 (31,894/32,037)

20. Moyashimon volume 8 (31,226/376,658) (Evening)

21. La Corda d'Oro volume 13 (29,851/100,725) (LaLa)

22. Crows Zero volume 4 (29,448/52,953) (Monthly Shounen Champion)

23. Summer Wars volume 1 (28,241/51,645)

24. One Piece volume 54 (27,783/1,789,871) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

25. SKET DANCE　volume 9 (27,585/103,403) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

26. Hoshi Mamoru Inu volume 7 (27,267/82,446)

27. Nodame Cantabile volume 22 DVD Bundle (26,930/46,824) (Kiss)

28. The Ghost Hunt volume 11 (25,768/70,127) (Nakayoushi)

29. Kochikame volume 165 (24,765/92,366) (Weekly Shonen Jump)

30. Usagi Drop volume 6 (23,810/35,968) (Feel Young)

 

[Drmke]

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And with the second week Mago passes To Love!!!

And One Piece is still up there!

 

[Koshi_Inaba]

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But the ToLove's total sales still higher by 1000 copies. Damn it! If only Mago's first week has higher.

 

[Drmke]

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But the ToLove's total sales still higher by 1000 copies. Damn it! If only Mago's first week has higher.

Well if it stays above it next week then Mago could pass it. Hopefully.

 

[Akiyama]

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I think the rankings are released around 5pm GMT -5, but next week I'll be in school until 8pm so you might have to wait or someone else could do it.

 

[Koshi_Inaba]

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I expect that Nodame would won against Hagaren, guess the second season anime really boost it's popularity even more.

 

[ZoddGuts]

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It's good seeing Sket Dance selling so well goes to show it's gain popularity bit by bit. Now if only an anime were to be made...

But the ToLove's total sales still higher by 1000 copies. Damn it! If only Mago's first week has higher.

Plus adding the sales of the bundle version of last week (36,332) it puts it over 200k in total.

 

[Koshi_Inaba]

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This is probably the last time ToLove will surpass mago or Toriko with or without bundle edition. Also, please stop reminding me abut the bundle edition, it's annoying and get me really pissed off

 

[ZoddGuts]

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Why so angry about it lol. Also there will be three more OVA episodes of To-loveru not sure if they'll be bundle but they likely will be since the first OVA series were bundled. So it crossing the 200k mark again three more times is more then likely.