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Japanese Comic Ranking, December 6-12

Not only did the latest Shingeki no Kyojin manga volume by 24-year-old Hajime Isayama land at #1 this past week, but the recent surge in popularity for the series put the first two volumes onto the chart as well. The third volume sold 6.6 times as many copies in its first week as the second volume sold in its first week.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	-	Shingeki no Kyojin #3	Hajime Isayama	185,674	185,674	Kodansha	Y440
2	1	Bleach #48	Tite Kubo	173,224	635,378	Shueisha	Y420
3	3	D. Gray-man #21	Katsura Hoshino	148,236	363,413	Shueisha	Y460
4	4	Gintama #37	Hideaki Sorachi	134,298	322,916	Shueisha	Y420
5	5	Katekyo Hitman Reborn! #32	Akira Amano	121,456	302,216	Shueisha	Y420
6	9	Claymore #19	Norihiro Yagi	76,466	167,037	Shueisha	Y420
7	12	Vampire Knight #13	Matsuri Hino	64,386	140,189	Hakusensha	Y420
8	13	Kuroko no Basuke #10	Tadatoshi Fujimaki	60,111	135,419	Shueisha	Y420
9	11	Sket Dance #16	Kenta Shinohara	58,315	135,141	Shueisha	Y420
10	-	Drop #12	Original Creator: Hiroshi Shinagawa Art: Dai Suzuki Character Design: Hiroshi Takahashi	54,420	54,420	Akita Shoten	Y420
11	27	Switch Girl!! #14	Natsumi Aida	53,093	98,180	Shueisha	Y420
12	16	Faster than a Kiss #8	Meca Tanaka	52,370	117,228	Hakusensha	Y420
13	90	Shingeki no Kyojin #1	Hajime Isayama	49,527	320,756	Kodansha	Y440
14	2	Yotsuba&! #10	Kiyohiko Azuma	48,372	503,796	ASCII Media Works/ Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y630
15	94	Shingeki no Kyojin #2	Hajime Isayama	46,671	309,798	Kodansha	Y440
16	20	MPD Psycho #15	Script: Eiji Ohtsuka Art: Shou Tajima	46,141	99,078	Kadokawa Shoten/ Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y609
17	-	Saint Seiya: Next Dimension - The Myth of Hades #3	Masami Kurumada	44,200	44,200	Akita Shoten	Y750
18	6	Real #10	Takehiko Inoue	42,089	458,510	Shueisha	Y630
19	21	Kure-nai #6	Original Creator: Kentarō Katayama Art: Yamato Yamamoto	41,398	92,977	Shueisha	Y460
20	-	Higanjima #33	Kōji Matsumoto	41,217	41,217	Kodansha	Y580
21	8	Fullmetal Alchemist #27	Hiromu Arakawa	40,247	1,154,954	Square Enix	Y450
22	-	Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai #3	Original creator: Tsukasa Fushimi  Original Character Design: Hiro Kanzaki  Art: Sakura Ikeda	39,198	39,198	ASCII Media Works	Y599
23	-	Broken Blade (Break Blade) #9	Yunosuke Yoshinaga	38,159	38,159	Softbank Creative	Y4630
24	-	Wangan Midnight C1 Runner #4	Michiharu Kusunoki	37,060	38,007	Kodansha	Y560
25	7	March comes in like a lion [Sangatsu no Lion] #5	Chika Umino	35,957	435,107	Hakusensha	Y510
26	38	Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar #20	Kyosuke Usuta	34,787	72,417	Shueisha	Y420
27	24	Ao no Exorcist #5	Kazue Katō	34,529	81,565	Shueisha	Y460
28	-	Seitokai no Ichizon #4	Art: 10mo Story: Sekina Aoi Original Character Design: Kira Inugami	33,494	33,494	Fujimi Shobo	Y609
29	-	Yowamushi Pedal #15	Wataru Watanabe	32,691	32,691	Akita Shoten	Y420
30	33	Psyren #14	Toshiaki Iwashiro	29,482	69,389	Shueisha	Y420

Source: Oricon

Update: Punctuation fixed. Thanks, Nonaka Machine Gun B.