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Japanese Comic Ranking, August 16-22 (Updated)

The Oricon Communications market survey firm reports that Eiichiro Oda's entire One Piece pirate manga series has sold over 20 million copies — just in 2010. As of the August 16-22 week, the manga series has sold 20.328 million copies. This is the first time that any series in any book category has sold that many copies in one year since Oricon began posting its Japanese book ranking charts in 2008. The second highest selling manga series is Naruto, which has sold over 15 million copies.

Update: One Piece outsold Naruto by over 15 millon copies; Naruto did not sell 15 million copies. Thanks, cosplayz.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	-	Detective Conan (Case Closed) #69	Gōshō Aoyama	330,262	330,262	Shogakukan	Y440
2	-	Fairy Tail #22	Hiro Mashima	319,545	319,545	Kodansha	Y440
3	1	Fullmetal Alchemist #26	Hiromu Arakawa	237,251	1,018,717	Square Enix	Y420
4	-	Hayate the Combat Butler (Hayate no Gotoku!) #25	Kenjirō Hata	198,673	198,673	Shogakukan	Y440
5	-	Kekkaishi #30	Yellow Tanabe	172,299	172,299	Shogakukan	Y440
6	-	Negima! Magister Negi Magi #31	Ken Akamatsu	165,999	166,232	Kodansha	Y440
7	-	Daiya no A (Ace of Diamond) #22	Yūji Terajima	163,161	163,161	Kodansha	Y440
8	2	One Piece #59	Eiichiro Oda	103,711	2,274,196	Shueisha	Y420
9	-	Seitokai Yakuindomo #4	Tozen Ujiie	95,446	95,446	Kodansha	Y440
10	-	Kenjirō Hata Shoki Sakuhin-shū: Hayate the Combat Butler (Hayate no Gotoku!) no Mae	Kenjirō Hata	89,867	89,867	Shogakukan	Y520
11	-	Bloody Monday Season 2: Pandora no Hako #4	Ryō Ryūmon, Kōji Megumi	79,061	79,061	Kodansha	Y440
12	-	Gakuen Alice #22	Tachibana Higuchi	75,684	75,684	Hakusensha	Y420
13	-	Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei #22	Kôji Kumeta	74,003	74,003	Kodansha	Y440
14	4	Strobe Edge #9	Io Sakisaka	58,281	211,188	Shueisha	Y420
15	3	Naruto #52	Masashi Kishimoto	56,251	1,063,820	Shueisha	Y420
16	-	Kingdom #19	Yasuhisa Hara	52,886	52,886	Shueisha	Y540
17	-	Gekkō Jōrei (Moonlight Act) #10	Kazuhiro Fujita	50,590	50,590	Shogakukan	Y440
18	-	Negima! Magister Negi Magi #31 DVD-Bundled Limited First Edition	Ken Akamatsu	44,858	45,762	Kodansha	Y1,980
19	-	Countach #21	Haruto Umezawa	42,453	42,453	Shueisha	Y540
20	-	Monokuro Shōnen Shōjo #4	Ryoko Fukuyama	41,445	41,445	Hakusensha	Y420
21	-	Godhand Teru #53	Kazuki Yamamoto	39,916	39,916	Kodansha	Y440
22	6	Katekyo Hitman Reborn! #30	Akira Amano	37,275	472,563	Shueisha	Y420
23	8	Initial D #41	Shūichi Shigeno	36,224	220,535	Kodansha	Y560
24	5	Bleach #46	Tite Kubo	35,885	690,978	Shueisha	Y420
25	9	Gintama #35	Hideaki Sorachi	34,659	404,644	Shueisha	Y420
26	-	Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai Mina-koroshi-hen #6	Creator/ Supervisor: Ryukishi07 Art: Hinase Momoyama	34,251	34,251	Square Enix	Y610
27	-	Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai Matsuri-bayashi-hen #4	Creator/ Supervisor: Ryukishi07 Art: Karin Suzuragi	33,006	33,006	Square Enix	Y610
28	16	Sakura-Hime Kaden #6	Arina Tanemura	32,736	86,619	Shueisha	Y420
29	-	Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni Kai Matsuri-bayashi-hen #5	Creator/ Supervisor: Ryukishi07 Art: Karin Suzuragi	32,563	32,563	Square Enix	Y620
30	-	Hana to Akuma #8	Hisamu Oto	31,951	31,951	Hakusensha	Y420

Source: Oricon