Forum - View topicNaruto Vol 50 best selling manga in the US in 2011
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Ushio
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Naruto vol 50 sold over 37000 copies to be the best selling manga of 2011.
Bookscan = 31526 copies http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36900 http://www.comicbookresources.com/images/files/Bookscan-11-TOP-750.xls Daimond = 5536 http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36375 (It's number 84 on the "1000 TOP TRADES IN 2011" list) |
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vashna
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Considering the previous statistics that you had posted about the US comic book industry as a whole, that seems to suggest that Naruto Volume 50 was outpacing domestic graphic novels. Am I interpreting these statistics incorrectly?
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TitanXL
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Having looked at France's reports the other day, that's actually kind of sad to see such a big gap.
http://i40.tinypic.com/okbki9.jpg And France has like... so many less people than the US, that's what the sad thing is. |
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vashna
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Wow, that really is quite sad. I'm rather shocked, though it was noted that Naruto was quite popular in France in one of the series guidebooks that I have.
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marie-antoinette
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France does have a much more established manga industry than the US, or at least so I have heard. It still is a bit surprising to see the numbers are so different.
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Moomintroll
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The top 20 for book shop sales looks like this - 157,786 - DORK DIARIES 84,045 - BIG NATE FROM THE TOP 39,382 - ADV OF OOK & GLUK KUNG FU CAVE 36,436 - MAUS I 35,365 - WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM 1 34,297 - TWILIGHT GRAPHIC NOVEL V 2 32,931 - BONE v1 OUT FROM BONEVILLE 32,223 - PERSEPOLIS 1 31,526 - NARUTO V 50 30,885 - SCOTT PILGRIM V 1 SCOTT PILGRIM 29,430 - ADV OF OOK & GLUK KUNG FU CAVE 27,081 - WALKING DEAD V1 DAYS GONE BYE 26,111 - WALKING DEAD V 14 NO WAY OUT 24,004 - DRAGONBREATH 23,743 - BIG NATE & FRIENDS 23,567 - POKEMON BLACK & WHITE V 1 23,349 - MAXIMUM RIDE V 4 MANGA 23,025 - SCOTT PILGRIM V 2 SCOTT PILGRIM 22,934 - NARUTO V51 22,797 - BONE v2 THE GRT COW RACE So that's Naruto at #9 and #19 (and Pokemon at #16). |
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Ushio
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Top 20 GN in 2010 168,330 -- DORK DIARIES 126,558 -- TWILIGHT GRAPHIC NOVEL V1 124,808 -- ADV OF OOK & GLUK KUNG FU CAVEMEN 90,664 -- SCOTT PILGRIM V 1 72,703 -- SCOTT PILGRIM V 2 70,393 -- SCOTT PILGRIM V 6 64,238 -- SCOTT PILGRIM V 3 62,720 -- SCOTT PILGRIM V 4 59,805 -- SCOTT PILGRIM V 5 53,155 -- NARUTO V47 42,917 -- NARUTO V48 41,949 -- BONE OUT FROM BONEVILLE 38,378 -- KICK ASS PREMIERE 34,948 -- BIG NATE FROM THE TOP 34,376 -- MAUS I 33,292 -- WALKING DEAD V1 DAYS GONE BYE 29,656 -- BLACK BUTLER V1 29,171 -- WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM 1 29,171 -- WATCHMEN 28,943 -- EXILE AN OUTLANDER GRAPHIC NOV Top 20 GN in 2009 WATCHMEN -- 424,814 DORK DIARIES -- 68,657 BK OF GENESIS -- 68,442 BONE CROWN OF HORNS -- 65,235 NARUTO V 43 -- 61,144 BONE OUT FROM BONEVILLE -- 54,817 NARUTO V41 -- 53,392 NARUTO V44 -- 52,411 COMP POKEMON PKY GDE V2 -- 52,012 NARUTO V45 -- 49,382 NARUTO V40 -- 49,109 NARUTO V42 -- 48,960 COMP POKEMON PKY GDE V1 -- 47,146 NARUTO V39 -- 46,667 NARUTO V38 -- 45,231 NARUTO V35 -- 44,933 NARUTO V34 -- 44,494 NARUTO V36 -- 43,742 NARUTO V37 -- 43,315 FRUITS BASKET V22 -- 40,403 |
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marie-antoinette
Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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Seeing some of the domestic releases in there actually makes me feel better, since there are a lot of great books in there, which certainly deserve to be selling more copies than Naruto. In particular, I am ecstatic to see Maus on the list for the last two years. Also happy to see Scott Pilgrim in there and it reminds me that I've meant to read Persepolis for ages.
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Charred Knight
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The American manga industry collapsed, and lost a ton of customers. The companies that survive are not doing too well. |
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Spotlesseden
Posts: 3514 Location: earth |
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Americans just don't like to read. There is little to no reason to make manga to target American audience. France on another handle is another story. There are many reasons to make manga for France audience.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/27/french-comics-market-2011/ "In the French comic book market, it’s been another year of growth ..." |
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vashna
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Putting aside pure economics and sociology for a moment, I thought it was interesting to see two Big Nate volumes in the list of big sellers. After all, it seems to suggest that there is still a market for newspaper comics in today's world. I don't read newspapers, and consider most of them to be in a bad state. In fact, I think a serious case can be made that newspapers are often a waste of paper in a world where news and political features can be delivered in so many other ways. However, I still love comic strips.
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baadaku12345
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Good job Naruto, #50 was also quite good. It had great fights and some emotion as well.
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vashna
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I'm glad to see someone congratulating it; we could do with a bit more of celebrating this news in my opinion.
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