Publisher Weekly Oricon Comic Rankings (2009-2015)

[Kaiten]

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And there we have it. SnK has passed Naruto in sales, and is now second to only One Piece. Combined sales of almost a million is quite an impressive first week.

 

[meeedoooz]

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yeah that's a great accomplishment . all the other volumes of it have risen as well . so the new 2nd most selling manga by volume will be SnK, i know we may want to wait to see how it will sell once the anime has ended but i have a feeling it will continue to sell 1.2 ~ 1.5M

maybe Naruto will have 2 volumes in the top 10 this year

and kuroko seems like it will surpass Bleach in per volume sales as well ( don't know if it already has ) and maybe it will have another bump due to season 2

 

[Kaizou 10]

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and kuroko seems like it will surpass Bleach in per volume sales as well ( don't know if it already has ) and maybe it will have another bump due to season 2

It already did.

 

[meeedoooz]

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It already did.

wow the per volumes sales have surpasses Bleach ? amazing .

are those the normal sales for toriko ?

 

[Kaizou 10]

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are those the normal sales for toriko ?

I believe that is a normal sales for Toriko.

 

[Westlo]

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Before the premiere, the only ones excited for Shingeki was its manga fandom. 2chan predicted low sales for it, and well it was generally not expected to be a hit.

Basically, it was its episode one that got the ball rolling. It only get an English simulcast at episode 2 and Kodansha only loosened the purse strings at three episodes in.

So most of its early hype was fan-generated, rather than advertising-generated.

How a manga will get boosted sales will depend on how it well its anime will impress and convert new fans, rather than high anticipation from its existing fandom.

lol @ no hype for shingeki when it had a trailer like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzmOh4SuBc

Shits over every trailer released from this past comiket combined.

 

[Asarii]

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It's impressive that Shingeki is now second in terms of combined sales. Even though the premiere of the anime played a significant role, it's still an achievement for it to sell so many tankobons in such a short period of time.

 

[Kaizou 10]

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August 12th ~ August 18th (Credits for Negative Syndicate / revolution_d1)

01. Shingeki no Kyojin #11 (290,893 / 1,054,915)
02. One Piece #71 (258,568 / 2,487,632)
03. Mix #3 (238,934 / 261,522)
04. Fairy Tail #39 (170,999)
05. Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun #12 (169,654 / 170,657)
06. Nanatsu no Taizai #4 (93,963)
07. Daiya no Ace #37 (88,745)
08. Shingeki no Kyojin Special Edition #11 (82,199 / 275,066)
09. Ao no Exorcist #11 (75,493 / 619,682)
10. Hajime no Ippo #104 (74,489)
11. Shingeki no Kyojin #10 (70,516 / 1,549,182)
12. Shingeki no Kyojin #9 (69,608 / 1,573,244)
13. Shingeki no Kyojin #8 (68,749 / 1,601,242)
14. Shingeki no Kyojin #1 (68,472 / 2,000,565)
15. Shingeki no Kyojin #7 (68,065 / 1,614,094)
16. Kuroko no Basket #23 (67,002 / 551,403)
17. Shingeki no Kyojin #2 (66,200 / 1,946,821)
18. Shijou Saikyou no Deshi Kenichi #52 (65,860)
19. Nobunaga Concerto #9 (65,249 / 65,980)
20. Shingeki no Kyojin #6 (65,061 / 1,696,058)
21. Shingeki no Kyojin #3 (64,289 / 1,897,607)
22. Shingeki! Kyojin Chuugakkou #2 (64,223 / 138,924)
23. Shingeki no Kyojin #4 (63,068 / 1,774,160)
24. Shura no Mon Dai Ni Mon #10 (62,748)
25. Shingeki no Kyojin #5 (62,691 / 1,739,285)
26. Bleach #60 (56,656 / 493,138)
27. Initial D #47 (56,447 / 190,976)
28. Area no Kishi #37 (52,888)
29. Aku no Hana #9 (47,268 / 95,768)
30. Kimi no iru Machi #24 (45,295)
31. Toriko #26 (42,258 / 307,909)
32. Fairy Tail Special Edition #39 (40,282)
33. Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo #8 (37,947)
34. Shokugeki no Souma #3 (37,518 / 238,590)
35. One Punch-man #4 (37,477 / 212,399)
36. Minami-ke #11 (36,601 / 122,246)
37. Kaichou wa Maid-sama! #17 (35,947 / 143,458)
38. Baby Steps #27 (33,584)
39. Shura no Mon Iden Fudekake #5 (31,451)
40. Finder no Katsubou Limited Edition (30,838 / 55,040)
41. Kamisama ni Iutohri Ni #3 (30,124)
42. Denpa Kyoushi #8 (30,089)
43. Haikyuu!! #7 (28,907 / 233,666)
44. One Piece #70 (28,839 / 2,917,614)
45. Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu。#4 (28,540 / 327,977)
46. Sket Dance #32 (27,004 / 204,279)
47. Zettai Karen Children #35 (26,757)
48. Kominka Biyori #2 (26,453 / 26,621)
49. Gin no Saji #8 (24,568 / 674,321)
50. AKB49~Renai Kinshi Jourei~ #15 (24,371)

 

[Shinuki no Reborn]

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Seriously, is just me or everything is selling less or slower than normal while Shingeki sells more and more?

 

[Kaiten]

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Everything seems the same as usual.

 

[Kaizou 10]

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Seriously, is just me or everything is selling less or slower than normal while Shingeki sells more and more?

Not lower; just many series to get out of top 50 or not make into top 50 becasue more than 1/5 of 50 places are taken by Shingeki no Kyojin (and its comedic side-kick).

 

[leokiko]

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8. Baby Steps #27 (33,584)

Damn, this needs an anime adaptation already.

 

[meeedoooz]

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Not lower; just many series to get out of top 50 or not make into top 50 becasue more than 1/5 of 50 places are taken by Shingeki no Kyojin (and its comedic side-kick).

13 places , what the... . and the average keeps increasing for volumes 1 ~ 10

 

[pming]

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lol @ no hype for shingeki when it had a trailer like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzmOh4SuBc

Shits over every trailer released from this past comiket combined.

I did not say there was no hype. Please reread my post. The Shingeki manga fanbase was excited but their excitement is nowhere near the amount of hype generated when the first episode premiered. It wasn't merely that interest in Shingeki was doubled or tripled or even multiplied by 10.

In April alone, its Google Trends activity was as busy as One Piece. That's a massive amount of hype.

Even Kodansha wasn't prepared since they ran out of copies in just 2 months after the anime premiered and had to print an extra 8-9 million copies.

Also, in terms of advertising hype - apparently Devil Survivor 2 was more hyped by Pony Canyon before the Shingeki hype explosion on April 7-8. I can't totally verify this, but it seems true because according to their ANN pages, there's more Devil Survivor 2 pre-premiere news than Shingeki pre-premiere news.

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About the comic ranking and Shingeki's squatting on about a fifth of it for over a month. Did One Piece or Naruto did something similar? I know Kuroko didn't.

 

[Lutzinho]

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I did not say there was no hype. Please reread my post. The Shingeki manga fanbase was excited but their excitement is nowhere near the amount of hype generated when the first episode premiered. It wasn't merely that interest in Shingeki was doubled or tripled or even multiplied by 10.

In April alone, its Google Trends activity was as busy as One Piece. That's a massive amount of hype.

Even Kodansha wasn't prepared since they ran out of copies in just 2 months after the anime premiered and had to print an extra 8-9 million copies.

Also, in terms of advertising hype - apparently Devil Survivor 2 was more hyped by Pony Canyon before the Shingeki hype explosion on April 7-8. I can't totally verify this, but it seems true because according to their ANN pages, there's more Devil Survivor 2 pre-premiere news than Shingeki pre-premiere news.

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About the comic ranking and Shingeki's squatting on about a fifth of it for over a month. Did One Piece or Naruto did something similar? I know Kuroko didn't.

I think Magi did the same when the anime started, but with consistently lower sales than Shingeki, if I remember corretly.

 

[Kaizou 10]

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I think Magi did the same when the anime started, but with consistently lower sales than Shingeki, if I remember corretly.

I believe Ao no Exrocist and Kuroku also did made the ranking over month. But, they never stay long like Shingeki.

 

[Kaiten]

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These sales don't happen in a void. They don't tell the whole story, not everything is the same just because they are all manga and anime. SnK is a pop culture phenomenon in Japan, something that has grown beyond just a manga and anime audience. Magi and AnE both have been popular, but never crossed over the way SnK has. SnK's anime is significantly more popular than AnE or Magi's. The three anime are not actually comparable in popularity, or even close. Among recent anime, SnK compares better to K-On, Anohana, Steins;Gate, Madoka Magica, and Monogatari Series. If I had to guess (and that is all any of us can do), SnK's sales are being pushed by readers who typically do not read manga anymore, similar to One Piece's explosion in popularity a few years ago. Readers who would not buy AnE, Magi, or even Naruto are buying One Piece and SnK. SnK has become part of the wider pop culture, that's why it's sales have increased so much, and that is why catalog volumes continue to sell.

Kuroko's anime also was more popular than AnE and Magi, though not as popular to SnK.

 

[pming]

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Sorry, my mental calendar wasn't working properly. I forgot that Shingeki volumes has been occupying the charts since April, more than 4 months. Not just a month.

Has multiple One Piece (or Naruto) volumes ever occupy the chart for months? Maybe FMA or Death Note did something like it? Or Nana?

I think One Piece should had done so, perhaps during the years when it sold over 30 million copies.

 

[Kaizou 10]

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Has multiple One Piece (or Naruto) volumes ever occupy the chart for months? Maybe FMA or Death Note did something like it? Or Nana?

Oricon ranking for manga started 2008 and those series are already popular when Oricon started.

 

[pming]

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Oricon chart started 2008 and those series are already popular when Oricon started.

Ah, I didn't know that. Thank you.