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EighteenSky
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Great to see Fairy Tail still up there in the top 10.
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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Doing nothing while a really good anime is made based off what he's already done. Without that anime, I don't see it getting those kinds of numbers. |
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CrowLia
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I've wanted to pick up HxH for quite a while because it really amazes me that it has such a loyal fanbase in spite of everything but I truly couldn't risk picking it up and getting hung up by it with the chances of Togashi ever finishing it are slimmer every time
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Ashen Phoenix
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Thrilled to see Chihayafuru, Ao Haru Ride, and Kimi ni Todoke pretty far up the list. Mads props to Kuroko's Basketball too; I knew it was popular and sold but didn't know it was doing this well.
I want those manga on my shelves (especially Chihayafuru and KB). Somebody, hurry up and take my money. |
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Somewhere
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If you ignore the last chapter setting up a new arc, you can actually pretend that the series is finished. Works for me far better than deluding myself into hoping for Togashi to resume. |
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thelastgogeta
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Assassination Classroom had the first volume out twelve days (November 7th 2012) before these records began, but yes nearly all of the sales from the sixth volumes are recorded here. I agree that Assassination Classroom made one of the most impressive turnouts here as well and I need to get into Neuro, I heard the guy is in Jump Ultimate Stars. I'm glad to see the charts being shaken up further, if it leads to someone picking up another manga aside from the "big three", I look forward to One Piece coming short in a coming year. I need to get into more of these series including Terraformers, Kimi ni Todoke and others. Kuroko's Basketball is still doing well which is nice, even if the first season was more of my jam than the rest of the series. Can someone localise Chihayafuru, my two Bilingual volumes are really lonely... >_> |
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bleachj0j
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It's worth it. There is a reason people put up with the hiatuses |
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pykrete
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Kuroko's interesting as it scored 8 million copies annual sales twice with less than half the volumes of Naruto.
Magi also did it, but can it do it again is the question. Even just getting over 5 million copies sold in a year is a hard feat. Here's overall yearly sales since 2008 ranked, with number of new volumes released for that year. 37,996,373 - One Piece, 64 - 2011 - 4 new 32,343,809 - One Piece, 60 - 2010 - 5 new 23,464,866 - One Piece, 68 - 2012 - 4 new 18,151,599 - One Piece, 72 - 2013 - 4 new 15,933,801 - Attack on Titan (monthly), 11 - 2013 - 3 new 14,721,241 - One Piece, 55 - 2009 4 new *8,761,081 - Kuroko no Basuke, 24 - 2013 - 5 new *8,070,446 - Kuroko no Basuke, 19 - 2012 - 5 new *7,409,068 - Naruto, 53 - 2010 - 5 new *7,151,001 - Magi, 19 - 2013 - 4 new *6,874,840 - Naruto, 58 - 2011 - 5 new *6,836,494 - Naruto, 48 - 2009 - 4 new *6,572,813 - Kimi ni Todoke (monthly), 12 - 2010 - 3 new *6,495,240 - Naruto, 62 - 2012 - 4 new *6,471,021 - Bleach, 41 - 2009 - 6 new *5,956,540 - One Piece, 51 - 2008 - 4 new *5,810,522 - Fullmetal Alchemist (monthly), 23, 2009 - 3 new *5,739,526 - Fairy Tail, 23 - 2010 - 5 to 6 new *5,553,933 - Naruto, 66 - 2013 - 4 new *5,413,899 - Space Brothers, 22 - 2012 - 4 new *5,223,712 - Blue Exorcist (monthly), 9 - 2011 - 3 new *5,204,193 - Bleach, 47 - 2010 - 6 new *5,165,052 - Fullmetal Alchemist (monthly), 27 - 2010 - 4 new Everything on this list is anime-boosted. |
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Nonaka Machine Gun B
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2008 - 3,161,825 (VOL. 32-36)
2009 - 6,471,021 (105% increase) (VOL. 37-42) 2010 - 5,204,193 (20% decrease) (VOL. 43-48) 2011 - 4,187,258 (20% decrease) (VOL. 49-52) 2012 - 2,974,750 (29% decrease) (VOL. 53-56) 2013 - 2,752,588 (7% decrease) (VOL. 57-60) Just three more years... |
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SixteenSaltines
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WOW! Really impressed with these numbers for Attack on Titan, granted those numbers are because of the anime but still very very impressive. Also Hunter x Hunter still doing really well, if only Togashi would just come back to make more, if only....
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Stark700
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Seeing Hunter x Hunter up there really makes me wish Togashi makes a return with the manga from its Hunter x Hiatus. Great to see KnB, Magi, AOT, and some others on that list though and of course Hunter x Hunter.
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CrowLia
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I can understand that, and that's exactly what holds me back. I was a big fan of D.GrayMan, but it's been on and off hiatus for a while, and recently it even seems it got cancelled. It frustrates me to think I'll never know (heavy spoilers)spoiler[ what happened to Lavi, or if Allen would eventually be saved or become a full Noah, or see Kanda become a General], and HxH seems the exact kind of series that will leave me with the same feeling of incompletion |
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101nemesis
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Shingeki No Kyojin is THAT high because it has all 11 volumes charting and basically got the extreme boost from the anime. Next year, I'd expect it to sell only about half of this amount. Plus, One Piece had less number of volumes cause of Oda's breaks.
Toriko gets heavily promoted because it ranks decently on JUMP. But I seriously think its about time they stopped promoting it as their top 3 manga. AC or Kuroko can easily take that spot away. Plus with new rising stars like Haikyuu!! and Soma, Toriko will slowly lose its promotion. AC's sales are impressive. That said, the early 5-7 volumes cannot be used to judged how a manga would do since those are still the early stages where people pick up volumes to see how a certain series is. I'd say that without an anime, AC can sell about 700k a volume. Once an anime comes and if it does have a positive effect, it might be able to overtake Naruto's sales also. But AC is overhyped, in my honest opinion. So glad Kingdom made it that high. That series deserves everything it gets. Exceptionally done series.
Technically, Bleach hasn't fallen "even more". It has sold only 4 volumes in the year and if it had indeed sold 6 like most others, it would have been 9th or 8th in the list. So with about 1.2 million for 2 additional volumes (since the volumes would each sell at least 630k), the total would have come to a little more than 4 million. So no, Bleach has not fallen ever since the fullbring arc. The only "fall" it took was when the Aizen fight ended. Naruto would have been higher if it had sold 6 volumes also. |
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Somewhere
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It is, however, rarified air for WSJ series. Let's look at initial print numbers... (source: this) AC hit an initial print of 1 million for volume 6. Other WSJ series that got to 1 million initial print for any volume at all in their entire run include... - Kuroko no Basuke hit that at vol 24, thanks to basically two anime boosts (albeit boosts do suffer from diminishing returns). - Naruto got initial print of 1.08 million for volume 16, 8 months post-anime debut (970k for vol 15). (vol 5 got 710k; it was still a hot property from the start) - Hunter X Hunter broke 1 million initial print sometime between vol 3 (750k) and 7 (1.22 million). Anime (1999) debut was right after vol 6's release. - Bleach hit 1 million at vol 18, 10 months post-anime debut (and was last seen at that mark with vol 49; dropped to 800k for vol 53). - One Piece hit the mark sometime between vol 6 (880k) and vol 11 (1.35 million). (anime started shortly after vol 10's release) - Kinnikuman vol 17 hit 1.6 million. - Slam Dunk got there sometime between vol 6 (950k) and vol 11 (1.4 million). The anime started at around the time of vol 15. And around then... vol 14 got initial print of 1.65 million, vol 16 got 1.8 million. This series peaked at 2.5 million for vol 21-23, closing with 1.6 million for vol 31. When English speakers talk about best selling manga series, this is the series that gets shortchanged hard. - Dai no Daibouken hit it at vol 14, which was actually released a few months after the anime ended. Dropped back below 1 million by vol 19. - Death Note was at 1.1 million at volume 4, with the anime starting... after the manga ended. This series' initial prints peaked at 1.27 million for vol 7, closing with 1.2 million for vol 12. - Prince of Tennis was at 1.11 million for vol 16, though declined to 1 million for vol 21, and has sunk since to mid 400k (which is still very good, mind you. Gintama's currently at the ~500k level). Anime started about 13 months before vol 16. Which was about a month before vol 11's release with an initial print of 620k. - Dr. Slump was at 1.3 million for volume 5. Anime started at around vol 4's release; 4 months before vol 5. - Dragonball.... older information is missing; earliest volume listed is vol 19 with initial print of 1.4 million. DB peaked at 2.2 million for vol 35, closing with 1.5 million for vol 42. - Bastard!! got there at vol 15 (in the year 1994), though it peaked at 1.05 million for vol 16. And it has now declined to 410k for vol 26 (in the year.... 2009), cause Hagiwara is like, Togashi's buddy and mentor in the field of procrastination, or something. - Hokuto no Ken has to have hit 1 million initial print somewhere, but the only individual volume info listed in the site is 960k for vol 13. But for the series to get a circulation of 45 million over 25 volumes by 2001, some later volume has to have hit 1 million. Probably vol 14 or 15. - Yu Yu Hakusho got there sometime before vol 9's 1.2 million. Peaked at 1.7 million for vol 15, closing with 1.6 million for vol 19. Its anime started right after vol 8's release, ~2 months before vol 9's. - Rurouni Kenshin hit that mark sometime between vol 5 (800k) and vol 13 (1.1 million). The anime started exactly a month after vol 8, a month before vol 9. - Rokudenashi Blues finally got to 1 million initial print with vol 25, after 2 movies. That was also its peak. This is probably the least heralded series from this list among English speakers. But it's worth noting that this series did hang around in WSJ for 42 volumes (9 years and a few months), and for a couple of those years, it was a top tier series in the polls; IIRC, right before the triad of DB/SD/YYH formed. And it managed to get a couple of live action movies, in 1996 and 1998. And a drama in 2011, 14 years after the manga ended. Alright, so what's the point of all that typing? The key observation here is that every single WSJ series that has ever reached 1 million initial print anytime in its run, is a name to some degree. I'm not saying that AC will necessarily become a historical level superstar like OP/DB/SD, but history suggests a very high likelihood of being at least a star. Maybe a short but blinding shooting star like Death Note. Or a long running respectable survivor with a couple of major star level peak years like Rokudenashi Blues. Or possibly better. And I'm being relatively conservative here. I'm not even restricting examination to just the series that got to 1 million initial print quickly (like, within single digit volumes), which would probably, basically be.... Hunter X Hunter, One Piece, Slam Dunk, Death Note, Dr. Slump, Dragonball, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Rurouni Kenshin. Yes, AC could very well just flame out, in the sense that anything is possible. But given fandom inertia, that takes serious missteps. |
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101nemesis
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I ain't saying it will collapse. This series has had a huge jump which are along the lines of Death Note. And, if we go by the Author's words, this series will remain short. But if WSJ does try to extend it, then potential wise, this series has very less room for expansion. Unlike Naruto, Bleach, One PIece etc. That would give it a bigger chance to collapse sooner rather than later, if extended. Btw, thank you for that list. That was really informative. Edit - I believe, Bleach's current print is at 750k a volume and not 800k. Or am I wrong about that? Do you perhaps have a link to such figures? If you do, could you please share it? |
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