Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, May 15-21
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malvarez1
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I'm glad to see that Kodansha got three manga in the list. They're new in NA, and the money is a good motivator to keep publishing.
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Charred Knight
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While Negima was a given, it was great to see Fairy Tail on the list. |
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MrHatandClogs
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I needz my Kannagi volume 1!!
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Anime Remix
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Hi-Chan
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Shugo Chara was really the other given for them .And it is nice to see another company in the mix.
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Primus
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It wasn't likely, but I kind of hoped something Tokyopop would be on the list...
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opn
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fairy tail has actually been on the list three or four other times and considering its in the spoiler[fighting festival arc] i figured it would make the list but still awesome that it did. 
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The Mad Manga Massacre
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 Tsutomu Nihei made the list! Tsutomu Nihei made the list! 
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mglittlerobin
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Nice to see Blue Exorcist on there!
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Ashen Phoenix
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Took the words right outta my mouth, comrade. Hope to see them release Alive: The Final Evolution sometime. I absolutely love that series. |
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axstoro
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Baaaaakuman!! Dx
I wish Bamboo Blade was on the list. Maybe Volume 9 will be on there when it comes out?
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Deadwing
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What I want to know is how many copies are sold. A simple ranking can only tell us so much. For example, sure, Negima always debuts at #1 (and I helped) and stays in the Top 10 for several weeks, so we know it's one of the more popular series, but how does it stack up with other series that consistently have strong debuts and good staying power on the charts, like, say, Naruto? Does Negima get 90% of Naruto's sales figures? 75%? 50%? 20%? We don't know. But inquiring minds want to know.
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RestLessone
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In some of Ed Chavez's older blog posts, you can find number differences. http://www.mangacast.net/ In his Tilting at Windmills column, Brian Hibbs analyzes numbers for comics and posts Bookscan numbers, so you'll find plenty of sales numbers. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=30752 |
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KENZICHI
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YES! I totally agree. I miss this series so much; I want the rest of the volumes! 
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Deadwing
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Thanks! Hibb's annual sales numbers are pretty useful, though full year figures only go back to 2007. I was kinda surprised at how manga sells just as well as most Western comics (except for a couple of big releases like the re-release of Watchmen, which sold over 400,000 units in 2009), though I assume in the case of the latter it's just comics in GN format. Naruto's obviously still the biggest manga and always has volumes in the top 10, v47 being last year's best-selling manga at 53,155 units sold. By comparison Negima v25 had 10,824 copies sold last year, respectable and keeping it amongst the top 10 or 15 manga series, but it's not a huge blockbuster as far as comics go. Those numbers were of course a lot better in 2007 (manga was near it's peak and the recession hadn't happened yet), with Naruto v13 selling over 80,000 copies and Negima v13 selling over 22,000 copies. I also noticed that older volumes of a series can still sell fairly well years after release. Last year, volume 1 of Naruto sold 14,837 copies while v1 of Negima sold 3529 copies, and in the four-year period of 2007-2010 they sold 139,000 and 28,000 copies respectively. Extrapolating back to the time of their release, I'd imagine that v1 of Naruto has sold at least half a million copies and v1 of Negima at least 100,000 copies (assuming sales of each have always been roughly proportional to each other, i.e., the 4:1 to 5:1 range). Makes sense that older volumes sell better and still get decent numbers, though. People are probably more likely to pick up the first one or two volumes of a long-runner to try it out than they are to stick with it, and it doesn't take a lot to still get people to pick up the first volume even years after it was released. So, the vast majority of people that pick up the first couple of volumes don't buy later volumes. |
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