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Japanese Comic Ranking, November 30-December 6 (Updated)

Update: Shueisha published 2.85 million copies of the 56th volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece pirate manga — the largest print run that any Japanese manga has ever had in its first printing. So far, 1,363,868 copies have sold in the first week, and that is before the 10th One Piece theatrical anime film, One Piece Film Strong World, will open in Japan on December 12.

Meanwhile, Square Enix will ship the 24th volume of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist on December 22. With that volume, Square Enix will have printed a total of over 40 million Fullmetal Alchemist manga book volumes — the first Square Enix manga to reach that threshold. Fullmetal Alchemist is one of only five manga titles to sell over 1 million copies of one volume in 2009. (The other four titles are One Piece, Naruto, Nana, and Nodame Cantabile.)

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	-	One Piece #56	Eiichiro Oda	1,363,868	1,363,868	Shueisha	Y420
2	-	Bleach #42	Tite Kubo	475,911	475,911	Shueisha	Y420
3	1	Nodame Cantabile #23	Tomoko Ninomiya	320,873	790,217	Kodansha	Y440
4	-	Katekyo Hitman Reborn! #27	Akira Amano	253,866	253,866	Shueisha	Y420
5	-	D. Gray-man #19	Katsura Hoshino	244,049	244,049	Shueisha	Y460
6	4	Kuroshitsuji #8	Yana Toboso	189,800	440,538	Square Enix	Y590
7	3	Yotsuba&! #9	Kiyohiko Azuma	143,721	408,181	ASCII MediaWorks/ Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y630
8	-	Nurarihyon no Mago #8	Hiroshi Shiibashi	109,637	109,637	Shueisha	Y420
9	-	Toriko #7	Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro	102,567	102,567	Shueisha	Y420
10	2	Real #9	Takehiko Inoue	101,010	422,035	Shueisha	Y630
11	-	Vampire Knight #11	Matsuri Hino	89,897	89,897	Hakusensha	Y420
12	-	Kure-nai #4	Original Creator: Kentarō Katayama Art: Yamato Yamamoto	59,227	59,227	Shueisha	Y460
13	8	Pandora Hearts #10	Jun Mochizuki	55,148	139,667	Square Enix	Y590
14	-	Anedoki— #1	Mizuki Kawashita	Shueisha	Y420	54,618	54,618
15	-	Medaka Box #2	Original Story: NisiOisin Art: Akira Akatsuki	Shueisha	Y420	54,194	54,194
16	-	Naruto Hiden • Kai no Sho Official Premium Fan Book	Masashi Kishimoto	53,744	53,744	Shueisha	Y690
17	-	Shinya Shokudō #5	Yarō Abe	48,347	49,069	Shogakukan	Y780
18	5	Detective Conan (Case Closed) #66	Gosho Aoyama	44,953	488,419	Shogakukan	Y420
19	-	Birdy the Mighty Evolution #3	Masami Yuuki	38,600	39,158	Shogakukan	Y540
20	11	Black Bird #9	Kanoko Sakurakoji	32,269	100,014	Shogakukan	Y420
21	6	Billy Bat #2	Art: Naoki Urasawa Story Joint Collaboration: Takashi Nagasaki	31,662	225,148	Shogakukan	Y620
22	-	Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama (The New Prince of Tennis) Official Character Guide PeaPuri Vol. 2	Takeshi Konomi	31,556	31,556	Shueisha	Y500
23	14	Fairy Tail #18	Hiro Mashima	29,266	303,815	Kodansha	Y440
24	15	Kaze Hikaru #27	Taeko Watanabe	29,086	87,151	Shogakukan	Y420
25	7	Bamboo Blade #12	Story: Masahiro Totsuka Art: Aguri Igarashi	27,901	116,470	Square Enix	Y540
26	20	Naruto #48	Masashi Kishimoto	27,759	1,066,694	Shueisha	Y420
27	-	Higanjima #29	Kōji Matsumoto	27,642	27,642	Kodansha	Y580
28	-	Lord #17	Story: Buronson Art: Ryoichi Ikegami	27,466	27,757	Shogakukan	Y550
29	9	Strobe Edge #7	Io Sakisaka	27,183	109,758	Shueisha	Y420
30	10	Cross Game #16	Mitsuru Adachi	26,708	290,258	Shogakukan	Y420

Source: Oricon, Tohan, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web