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Top Selling Manga

For the week ending July 3rd, Tokyopop once again had the top selling graphic novel in North America with Fruits Basket volume 10. The newly released volume entered USA Today's best selling books list at #70, beating out the previous best performance of 71 spot by volume 8. Volume 10 is the fourth straight volume to make in into the top 100 best selling books (fiction & non-fiction) in the USA.

Manga completely dominated Nielson Bookscan Graphic Novels list, taking all ten of the top ten positions.

1. Fruits Basket vol. 10
   
2. Negima vol. 6
   
3. Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 2
   
4. Fullmetal Alchemist vol. 1
   
5. The Wallflower vol. 4
   
6. Fruits Basket vol. 9
   
7. Gravitation vol. 12
   
8. Vampire Hunter D
   
9. Tokyo Mew Mew a la Mode vol. 1
   
10. D.N.Angel vol. 8

ICv2 reports tjat manga accounted for 23 of the top 25 best selling graphic novels on the Nielson Bookscan list.