Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, May 2-8
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ChocoBar
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What's this? Naruto fell of the charts and 5 One Piece books made it again? Is this bizarro world?
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Chrno2
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So 'Twilight' is #1 on the list. But 'Yotsuba' is always the best. I really gotta plop down some money and buy those books for myself.
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kewldude
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Just shows how popular and awesome One Piece is!
 
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Anime Remix
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Woah! This is the second time 5 One Piece manga volumes been on the list! Woohoo! Go One Piece!
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Guilty_Sky
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If the One Piece anime hadn't been been butchered by 4Kids it would probably be doing even better.
If I recall correctly, in Japan Naruto seems to have an even harder time competing with One Piece. |
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ChocoBar
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And the second time all they fall off in chart within a week 
Also the list seem to be devoid of placeholders like Naruto, Black Butler, Soul Eater and Maximum Ride, which has been on the chart for more than a month |
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holangjai
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Yes it does. One Piece can easily clear over a million copies its first week were as Naruto sells only in the 600-900 thousands its first week, depending on the contents of the volume. I think its safe to say that One Piece really is the cash cow of Shonen Jump's existence.
As happy as I am about the fact that All 5 One Piece volumes are up, I have a feeling all of them will not be there next week. |
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Emma Iveli
Posts: 679 Location: Hobo with internet |
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I hope one of them stays on the list until next week! I really hope so!
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ChocoBar
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Since when did this turn into a competition?
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Tamaria
 Posts: 1512 Location: De Achterhoek |
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Since they started making lists like these?
Last edited by Tamaria on Fri May 14, 2010 1:32 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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jrnemanich
 Posts: 238 Location: Denver |
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i can't remember when black butler was not on the list wow
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Jaymie
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Black Butler came out in January. It's about time it left the list... But Volume 2 comes out this month, so we'll be seeing it again soon.
Vampire Knight Volume 10 is approaching us as well, so that's another guaranteed list-maker. |
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fortykoubuns
 Posts: 22 Location: Connecticut, USA |
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I read an article somewhere on Mangablog that the reason why these manga in particular are usually on the NYT's bestseller's list for only a week is because most of the buying is done by libraries that first week. That explains why manga like One Piece only stays on the list for like a week.
I'd buy those One Piece volumes as they'd come out but, daaayum, it gets to be really expensive...(especially with all the other manga I try to keep up with  )
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Buster Blader 126
 Posts: 1207 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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Naruto will probably be back next week.
It's still nice to see the current set of One Piece volumes doing well for a week, though. I just finished reading Skypiea & it's FINALLY getting good. |
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MetatronM
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There is no competition at all in Japan. One Piece is the best selling manga series of all time over there (with the caveat that I can't recall ever seeing reliable sales information for Astro Boy). Naruto has sold roughly half of what One Piece has overall in Japan. |
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