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Amazon.co.jp Posts 2008's Top Comics, Light Novels
posted on by Egan Loo
The Japanese unit of the online retailer Amazon has announced on Tuesday its top 10 lists for the 12 months between December 2007 and November 2008. Nodame Cantabile repeated the success it had the previous year by topping the Japanese comic chart with its 20th volume. #2's Yotsuba&! volume 8 tied into an exclusve "Amazon.co.jp box version" of Revoltech Danbo Mini figure. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind benefited along with all things Hayao Miyazaki created as his latest film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, stayed in the Japanese box office for months.
Similarly Zero no Tsukaima, Spice and Wolf, and Full Metal Panic benefited from recent or ongoing anime releases to rank at the top of the light novel chart. In fact, of all ten light novel series on the chart, only two have no anime adaptations.
Japanese Books (Comics)
| 1 | Nodame Cantabile #20 | Tomoko Ninomiya | Kodansha |  |
| 2 | Yotsuba&! #8 | Kiyohiko Azuma | ASCII MediaWorks |  |
| 3 | Wide Version: 7-Volume Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Set: Tolmekia Battle Version | Hayao Miyazaki | Tokuma Shoten |  |
| 4 | Fullmetal Alchemist #19 | Hiromu Arakawa | Square Enix |  |
| 5 | Saint Young Men #1 | Hikaru Nakamura | Kodansha |  |
| 6 | Negima! Magister Negi Magi #24 DVD-Bundled Limited First Edition | Ken Akamatsu | Kodansha |  |
| 7 | Pluto #6 | Naoki Urasawa | Shogakukan |  |
| 8 | DVD-Bundled Limited Initial Edition: Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei #15 | Kôji Kumeta | Kodansha |  |
| 9 | Rozen Maiden Shinsō-ban #7 Limited Initial Edition | Peach-Pit | Shueisha |  |
| 10 | Moyashimon #6 Limited Edition with Plush Figure | Masayuki Ishikawa | Kodansha |  |
| 11 | Hunter x Hunter No. 25 | Yoshihiro Togashi | Shueisha |  |
| 12 | One Piece #49 | Eiichiro Oda | Shueisha |  |
| 13 | Lucky Star #6 | Kagami Yoshimizu | Kadokawa Group Publishing |  |
| 14 | Black Lagoon #8 | Rei Hiroe | Shogakukan |  |
| 15 | Kyō no Nekomura-san #3 | Yoriko Hoshi | Magazine House |  |
| 16 | Mobile Suit Gundam The Origin #17 Lalah Arc Part I | Yoshikazu Yasuhiko | Kadokawa Group Publishing |  |
| 17 | Mudazumo Naki Kaikaku | Hideki Ohwada | Takeshobo |  |
| 18 | Ookiku Furikabutte Vol. 9 | Asa Higuchi | Kodansha |  |
| 19 | Tsukihime #6 | Type-Moon | MediaWorks |  |
| 20 | Vagabond #28 | Takehiko Inoue | Kodansha |  |
Japanese Books (Light Novels)
[The light novels are linked to their anime adaptations where applicable.]| 1 | Zero no Tsukaima #13 | Noboru Yamaguchi | Media Factory |  |
| 2 | Spice and Wolf | Isuna Hasekura | MediaWorks |  |
| 3 | Semaru Nick of Time: Full Metal Panic! | Shoji Gatoh | Fujimi Shobo |  |
| 4 | The Story of Saiunkoku: Reimei ni Kohaku wa Kirameku | Sai Yukino | Kadokawa Group Publishing |  |
| 5 | Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita | Romeo Tanaka | Shogakukan |  |
| 6 | Toaru Hikūshi e no Tsuioku | Koroku Inumura | Shogakukan |  |
| 7 | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya | Nagaru Tanigawa | Kadokawa Shoten |  |
| 8 | Jaō Sairin: The Heroic Legend of Arslan #13 | Yoshiki Tanaka | Kobunsha |  |
| 9 | Maria-sama ga Miteru: Margaret ni Ribbon | Oyuki Konno | Shueisha |  |
| 10 | Toradora #7 | Yuyuko Takemiya | ASCII MediaWorks |  |
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