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Japanese Comic Ranking, November 23-29
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Last Nodame volume sells 514,881; Real, Yotsuba, Kuroshitsuji, Conan in top 5
The standard edition of the final volume for Tomoko Ninomiya's Nodame Cantabile manga topped the charts with 469,344 copies sold. The limited DVD-bundle edition sold an additional 45,537 copies. Ninomiya is launching a Nodame Cantabile manga spinoff this month. The first of two live action Nodame Cantabile Saishū Gakushō (Nodame Cantabile: The Final Movement) films will open in Japan on December 19, and the final television anime series will premiere in January.
| Rank | Prev. Rank | Title | Author | Weekly Copies | Total Copies | Publisher | Price | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | Nodame Cantabile #23 | Tomoko Ninomiya | 469,344 | 469,344 | Kodansha | Y440 |  |
| 2 | - | Real #9 | Takehiko Inoue | 321,025 | 321,025 | Shueisha | Y630 |  |
| 3 | - | Yotsuba&! #9 | Kiyohiko Azuma | 264,460 | 264,460 | ASCII Media Works/ Kadokawa Group Publishing | Y630 |  |
| 4 | - | Kuroshitsuji #8 | Yana Toboso | 250,738 | 250,738 | Square Enix | Y590 |  |
| 5 | 1 |
Detective Conan (Case Closed) #66 | Gōshō Aoyama | 109,925 | 443,466 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 6 | 7 | Billy Bat #2 | Art: Naoki Urasawa Story Joint Collaboration: Takashi Nagasaki | 96,883 | 193,486 | Shogakukan | Y620 |  |
| 7 | - | Bamboo Blade #12 | Story: Masahiro Totsuka Art: Aguri Igarashi | 88,569 | 88,569 | Square Enix | Y540 |  |
| 8 | - | Pandora Hearts #10 | Jun Mochizuki | 84,519 | 84,519 | Square Enix | Y590 |  |
| 9 | - | Strobe Edge #7 | Io Sakisaka | 82,575 | 82,575 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 10 | 4 | Cross Game #16 | Mitsuru Adachi | 73,124 | 263,550 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 11 | -- | Black Bird #9 | Kanoko Sakurakoji | 67,745 | 67,745 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 12 | 3 | Tsubasa #28 | CLAMP | 66,736 | 261,873 | Kodansha | Y480 |  |
| 13 | - | 07-Ghost #9 | Yuki Amemiya, Yukino Ichihara | 66,358 | 66,358 | Ichijinsha | Y580 |  |
| 14 | 2 | Fairy Tail #18 | Hiro Mashima | 62,880 | 274,549 | Kodansha | Y440 |  |
| 15 | - | Kaze Hikaru #27 | Taeko Watanabe | 58,065 | 58,065 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 16 | 5 | Daiya no A (Ace of Diamond) #18 | Yūji Terajima | 49,201 | 205,264 | Kodansha | Y440 |  |
| 17 | 13 | Oh My Goddess! (Aa Megami-sama) #40 | Kosuke Fujishima | 48,214 | 101,425 | Kodansha | Y510 |  |
| 18 | 6 | Negima! Magister Negi Magi #28 | Ken Akamatsu | 47,273 | 200,481 | Kodansha | Y440 |  |
| 19 | - | Nodame Cantabile #23 Limited DVD-Bundle Edition | Tomoko Ninomiya | 45,537 | 45,537 | Kodansha | Y1440 |  |
| 20 | 11 | Naruto #48 | Masashi Kishimoto | 42,537 | 1,038,935 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 21 | 20 | Future Diary #9 | Sakae Esuno | 40,264 | 83,978 | Kadokawa Group Publishing | Y588 |  |
| 22 | 9 | Gakuen Alice #20 | Tachibana Higuchi | 38,540 | 111,772 | Hakusensha | Y420 |  |
| 23 | - | Momogumi Plus Senki #7 | Eri Sakondou | 36,486 | 36,486 | Kadokawa Group Publishing | Y440 |  |
| 24 | 25 | Kiss×sis #5 | Bow Ditama | 34,483 | 73,446 | Kodansha | Y580 |  |
| 25 | 73 | Haré+Guu #10 | Renjuro Kindaichi | 34,374 | 48,616 | Square Enix | Y420 |  |
| 26 | - | Loveless #9 Limited Edition | Yun Kouga | 33,351 | 33,351 | Ichijinsha | Y800 |  |
| 27 | - | Bamboo Blade B #2 | Story: Masahiro Totsuka | 29,960 | 29,960 | Square Enix | Y540 |  |
| 28 | 24 | Beshari Gurashi #9 | Masanori Morita | 28,539 | 70,167 | Shueisha | Y590 |  |
| 29 | - | Loveless #9 | Yun Kouga | 27,607 | 27,607 | Ichijinsha | Y580 |  |
| 30 | 81 | The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service #12 | Art: Hosui Yamazaki Story: Eiji Ohtsuka | 27,348 | 39,316 | Kadokawa Group Publishing | Y609 |  |
Update: More background information added.
follow-up of Japanese Comic Ranking, November 16-22
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