Publisher Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings (2009-2015)

[m3loo]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

24 048　 24 048　Gangsta 03
22 924　 22 924　Ran to Haiiro no Sekai 04
17 780　 17 780　Oboreru Knife 13

I am happy about Gangsta and Ran to Haiiro no Sekai. but it surprises me that Oboreru knife "only" has 17780 sold volumes from volume 13.

 

[Oberon]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Oricon Rankings 16/07 - 22/07

01. Gin no Saji #4 (397,416)
02. Air Gear #37 (133,691)
03. Hajime no Ippo #100 (130,861)
04. Magi #13 (106,179)
05. Seitokai Yakuindomo #7 (93,226)
06. Flat #6 (90,950 - 131,422)
07. Peace Maker #9 (86,447)
08. Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai #17 (68,201)
09. Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai #18 (67,635)
10. Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai Limited Edition #17+18 (67,187)
11. Soul Eater #22 (64,770)
12. Baby Steps #22 (56,480)
13. Again!! #5 (51,422)
14. Love So Life #10 (49,698)
15. Barakamon #6 (48,477)
16. Kuroko no Basket Official Fanbook (48,225 - 161,931)
17. Gin no Saji Special Edition #4 (48,067)
18. Hiyokoi #8 (46,399 - 89,353)
19. Natsume Yuujinchou #14 (43,343 - 379,077)
20. Code:Breaker #19 (42,457)
21. AKB49 ～Renai Kinshi Jourei～ #9 (40,100)
22. Beshari Gurashi #14 (37,741)
23. Koutetsu no Hanappashira #7 (37,395)
24. Yesterday o Utatte #8 (35,994)
25. Akagi #26 (35,873)
26. Kuroko no Basket #18 (35,692 - 354,468)
27. Toriko #20 (35,484 - 365,494)
28. Kyoukai no Rinne #13 (33,398)
29. Shin Tennis no Oujisama #8 (32,645 - 310,220)
30. Bakuman #20 (32,536 - 451,740)
31. Gakuen Alice #9 (32,197 - 60,144)
32. High Score #11 (31,331 - 58,311)
33. Gintama #45 (31,266 - 364,713)
34. AKB49 ～Renai Kinshi Jourei～ Special Edition #9 (30,183)
35. Akatsuki no Yona #9 (29,907)
36. Monochro Shounen Shoujo #10 (29,316)
37. Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki #1 (26,713 - 47,353)
38. A-Bout! #14 (26,633)
39. Soul Eater Not! #2 (26,163)
40. Dragon Collection Ryuu o Suberu Mono Limited Edition #4 (25,889)
41. Samurai Soldier #19 (25,321)
42. Hajime no Ippo Limited Edition #100 (24,482)
43. Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou #10 (24,465)
44. Nurarihyon no Mago #22 (24,110 - 246,396)
45. Sket Dance #25 (23,444 - 208,774)
46. Curry Naru Shokutaku #46 (23,066)
47. Seitokai Yakuindomo Limited Edition #7 (23,055 - 23,935)
48. Kaichou wa Maid-sama! #15 (22,923 - 166,307)
49. Seitokai no Ichizon #7 (22,680)
50. Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- #14 (21,853)

 

[kewl0210]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Toriko, Gintama, and Kuroko all still doing well.
Nice to see Beshari-Gurashi and Akagi on there, too.

Gin no Saji's doing amazing as well. Good to see Sunday getting a big hit.

 

[susanoo13]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I hoped for a little rise in Magi and Code:Breaker due to the approaching anime yet I guess the trailers won't do to much, also maybe next week we will have a lower #50 and we will be able to see some progress from the older volumes of Kuroko since #01 already broke the 500K barrier which Toriko has yet to accomplish.

 

[kewl0210]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Toriko's early volumes sold far more than that at this point. The series has circulated 13 million whereas Kuroko is something like 8-9 million at best. Total circulation at volume 17 was 7.5 million and that was announced a month ago. Toriko's first volume just wasn't on the 6-month or yearly charts in recent years because it came out so long ago (2008). Toriko 18 had 445K at last total, and 4.6 million total were sold in 2011. So it's safe to say plenty of earlier volumes have sold well over 500K at this point. (If you divide the 20 volumes by the 13 million and find the average, it's 650k per volume, and the ones that have been out for a long time will have sold the most. Whereas Kuroko's average is more like 440K.)

And I just noticed, #50 there, is that volume 14 of the ORIGINAL Rurouni Kenshin that came out like 15 years ago?
That doesn't make any sense... Rurouni Kenshin, even if gaining popularity over the movies and such, has had Kanzenbans and Bunkobans out for years. Why would an individual tankoubon sell so well?

 

[Bomber D Rufi]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I wonder, has Sket Dance done any better with an anime than it did before it got an adaptation?

 

[bskbob]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I wonder, has Sket Dance done any better with an anime than it did before it got an adaptation?

Sket anime boost was not that big in comparison with other series still the numbers went up

Vol. 17 (last before the anime started) sold around 150,000 (86,000 first week sales)
Vol. 18 sold around 200,000 (139,022 first week sales)

 

[m3loo]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I am surprised with Gin no Saji, never would have thought that it would sell so well.

 

[Asgaroth]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I am surprised with Gin no Saji, never would have thought that it would sell so well.

thats the power of a previous best seller, but now its succes depended on its own chapters. no one would buy so many volumes without liking it.

 

[Crude]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

It's also a pretty unique series, so that probably helps as well.

 

[Nii]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

I really hoped Arakawa would start a new plot-driven series so I was a bit disappointed when I found out it was a comedy (just my impression from the first two chapters). Didn't impress me that much but going by sales it's probably a good series. Even if she's well-known there's no way the series would sell that much just because Arakawa is writing it.

On another note I'm really happy to see Magi up there! And still impressed by Kuroko's sales, it's really selling as much as Toriko does O_o I'm curious to see if that trend will continue

 

[Silverblade]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Good sales do not equal good product. Shonen Jack's line up proves this.

And hey, Magi, Air Gear and Silver Spoon in a single top ten? This was a good week.

 

[Nii]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Good sales do not equal good product. Shonen Jack's line up proves this.

That's a given. Still a series that sales well hooked a lot of people at some point and while this doesn't mean that it's outstanding or particularly good it has done something right, otherwise it wouldn't have that much fans. If it continues to be good or goes worse is another point: Series like Bleach, Naruto or even One Piece benefit from the huge fanbase they build at some point, faults or bad writing will be forgiven a lot easier.

Another point is the type of series and it's magazine: A WSJ series probably has it the easiest go gather a large fanbase because it's the most popular magazine. On the other hand Shonen Sunday has declining sales over a lot of years, so far that I would probably describe it as a downfall. Getting Arakawa was one step to prevent the magazine from selling even less - at least going by the volume sales this can be considered a success because her series is the only one besides Detectiv Conan that is selling this well.

And last but not least a comedy series will definitely have it harder to gather a lot of fans compared to let's say an action/plot-driven story. Mix all of this together and you get why I think that the series is most likely good.

 

[Asgaroth]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

And last but not least a comedy series will definitely have it harder to gather a lot of fans compared to let's say an action/plot-driven story. Mix all of this together and you get why I think that the series is most likely good.

I read it and don't know why they love it this much. It's not as funny as Gintama and Sket Dance and provides mostly nothing else than laughter. There were some chapters with plot and romance, but nothing grave. The best thing is that the chapters are named after seasons, which means the ending draws visible nearer each time the season changes. The story itself seems to hit a desired topic in the japanese culture, which isn't that much explored currently. Seems like a big lucky strike she did with the setting.

I also hoped that she would write another plot driven story, but this was truly unexpected.

 

[ruggia]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

you know there's more than just author's "name value" when a series dethrones its magazine's uncontested best-seller in just little over a year. XD

 

[k-dom]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Silver spoon also won the Taishou award this year, which I don't think happen that often for a new serie. I personaly like it a lot, the comedy is well done and different from the jump series. Arakawa succeeded in a completely new genre that is proof of her talent.

 

[Zatono]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Silver Spoon is much better than most people think. You can't really read the first few chapters and form a solid opinion.

 

[Kaiten]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Silver spoon also won the Taishou award this year, which I don't think happen that often for a new serie. I personaly like it a lot, the comedy is well done and different from the jump series. Arakawa succeeded in a completely new genre that is proof of her talent.

The Manga Taishou Award is given exclusively to new series. Only manga with eight volumes or less are eligible for nomination.

---------- Post added at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:21 PM ----------

I read it and don't know why they love it this much. It's not as funny as Gintama and Sket Dance and provides mostly nothing else than laughter. There were some chapters with plot and romance, but nothing grave. The best thing is that the chapters are named after seasons, which means the ending draws visible nearer each time the season changes. The story itself seems to hit a desired topic in the japanese culture, which isn't that much explored currently. Seems like a big lucky strike she did with the setting.

I also hoped that she would write another plot driven story, but this was truly unexpected.

What lucky strike? She is from Hokkaido and happened to grow up on a dairy farm. Silver Spoon is semi-autobiographical. Rather than being some gimmick driven fluke maybe Silver Spoon's popularity is based on being a warm, well written, highly personal story that readers can identify with. You may only see the novelty of the setting, but that might be a failure of your imagination, rather than the honest truth. Maybe others look past the farm setting, instead identifying with a fish out of water high school boy, not entirely certain of what he wants out of the future, a little to demanding of himself, trying to find his way in spite of that. That is certainly something everyone, young and old, can identify with, being emotions typical of the teenage experience. In that Silver Spoon actually has far more in common with Kimi ni Todoke, another manga that depicts being a teenager with realism, wit, and intelligence, never talking down to it's audience.

Nothing against Gintama or Sket Dance, both wonderful manga, but please stop comparing everything too the tiny little world that is Weekly Shounen Jump? It is mucking up the conversation for all of us with larger frames of reference and broader taste. Thanks in advance

 

[Lutzinho]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Personally I don't really like Silver Spoon. I can barely bring myself to read the new chapters.

 

[kewl0210]

Re: Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings

Here's the current rankings of things:

オリコン2012/08/06付 コミック (集計期間：2012/07/23～07/29)

順位/先週/推定売上部数/推定累積売上部数/登場回数/集計日数(初週のみ)/タイトル

*1　--　*,706,697　*,706,697　*1　3　NARUTO-ナルト-　61
*2　--　*,211,027　*,212,907　*2　-　GIANT KILLING　24
*3　--　*,166,794　*,166,794　*1　6　好きっていいなよ。　9
*4　11　*,119,532　*,184,302　*2　-　ソウルイーター　22
*5　--　*,101,921　*,101,921　*1　4　好きです鈴木くん!!　17
*6　*1　*,*99,242　*,496,658　*2　-　銀の匙 Silver Spoon　4
*7　--　*,*96,664　*,100,721　*2　-　そらのおとしもの　15
*8　15　*,*92,225　*,140,702　*2　-　ばらかもん　6
*9　--　*,*83,027　*,*83,027　*1　5　セキレイ　13
10　--　*,*81,115　*,*81,115　*1　7　となりの関くん　3
11　--　*,*76,710　*,*76,710　*1　4　カノジョは嘘を愛しすぎてる　9
12　--　*,*62,060　*,*62,060　*1　3　PandoraHearts　18
13　--　*,*58,894　*,*58,894　*1　5　青空エール　10
14　--　*,*58,445　*,*58,445　*1　5　うそつきリリィ　8
15　--　*,*55,603　*,*55,603　*1　4　ヒミツのアイちゃん　8
16　--　*,*55,477　*,*55,995　*1　7　グラゼニ　6
17　39　*,*50,639　*,*76,802　*2　-　ソウルイーターノット!　2
18　--　*,*50,517　*,*50,517　*1　4　花にけだもの　7
19　16　*,*50,121　*,212,052　*4　-　黒子のバスケ オフィシャルファンブック CHARACTERS BIBLE
20　*7　*,*46,340　*,132,787　*2　-　PEACE MAKER　9
21　--　*,*43,035　*,*43,668　*1　7　へうげもの　15
22　14　*,*42,511　*,*92,209　*2　-　LOVE SO LIFE　10
23　--　*,*40,684　*,*40,684　*1　4+.バカとテストと召喚獣　7
24　*3　*,*39,044　*,169,905　*2　-　はじめの一歩　100
25　*2　*,*38,315　*,172,006　*2　-　エア・ギア　37
26　--　*,*38,142　*,*38,142　*1　4　あっちこっち　5
27　*4　*,*34,249　*,140,428　*2　-　マギ　13
28　--　*,*32,680　*,*32,680　*1　4　あやかし緋扇　5
29　--　*,*31,673　*,*31,673　*1　7　ゆるゆり　8
30　--　*,*31,451　*,*31,451　*1　5　orange　1
31　*6　*,*30,884　*,162,306　*3　-　flat　6
32　*5　*,*30,422　*,123,648　*2　-　生徒会役員共　7
33　36　*,*29,251　*,*58,567　*2　-　モノクロ少年少女　10
34　26　*,*28,942　*,383,410　*4　-　黒子のバスケ　18
35　*8　*,*27,087　*,*95,288　*2　-　神のみぞ知るセカイ　17
36　*9　*,*26,743　*,*94,378　*2　-　神のみぞ知るセカイ　18
37　--　*,*26,716　*,*27,342　*1　7　OL進化論　33
38　--　*,*26,623　*,*26,623　*1　4　ゆるゆり　9
39　--　*,*25,932　*,*25,932　*1　4+.機動戦士Ζガンダム Define　3
40　--　*,*25,490　*,*25,490　*1　5　脳内ポイズンベリー　2
41　--　*,*24,234　*,*24,234　*1　5　ゆりゆり
42　22　*,*24,189　*,*61,930　*2　-　べしゃり暮らし　14
43　--　*,*24,018　*,*24,018　*1　6　ゆるゆり　8　限定版
44　--　*,*23,477　*,*23,477　*1　5　ディメンションW　2
45　--　*,*23,074　*,*23,371　*1　7　のりりん　5
46　19　*,*22,811　*,401,888　*4　-　夏目友人帳　14
47　27　*,*22,283　*,387,777　*4　-　トリコ　20
48　--　*,*22,248　*,*22,248　*1　7　まよチキ!　4
49　--　*,*21,845　*,*22,118　*1　7　シドニアの騎士　8
50　--　*,*21,573　*,*22,086　*1　7　とりぱん　13