I know but I still find it very awkward.
It has seen increasingly higher rankings the last half year, so this could mean that they have increased their fanbase and you sell more when your increasing fanbase is catching up.
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The "Shueisha" Thread
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Like. A. Boss.
That is a realy kick-ass publicity.
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I look forward to seeing hxh shoot up again in rankings when Togashi finishes levelling up o whatever rpg he is currently playing. If only he played beat em ups, like offline I mean, and with no friends or ranking systems. That way even if he chose to finish them on hardest with every character it would take him less time than an rpg might.
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Dragon Quest X was recently released, and a remake of VII is coming in February. It's going to be a long time before Togashi comes back.
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Is this talk about Togashi not working because of videogames true?
This guy needs help.
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I know but I still find it very awkward.
Well, you can see it like this. Shonen Jump is highly popular and targeted mostly towards children, who buy the magazine every week, and then rate their favorite series. And then we have the volumes, who's sales sees an increase of older people buying them. So Kuroko but be popular with older folk, who don't read the Weekly magazine, but wait for each volume. I may be wrong, but that's the only explanation I can give.
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Well, you can see it like this. Shonen Jump is highly popular and targeted mostly towards children, who buy the magazine every week, and then rate their favorite series. And then we have the volumes, who's sales sees an increase of older people buying them. So Kuroko but be popular with older folk, who don't read the Weekly magazine, but wait for each volume. I may be wrong, but that's the only explanation I can give.
That is the case with One Piece. Not that it isn't popular in the rankings, but it sells a billion volumes because of older people. I might be wrong, but I wouldn't say that's the case with Kuroko, since it's a little too childish most of the times. That second place is probably because the start of the anime made all 20 volumes sell a whole lot.
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Lol if I were married to Naoko Takeuchi I would rather spend my time shagging her than playing rpgs haha
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Didn't One Piece and Naruto release 3 volumes each this year while Kuroko's Basketball released 5 volumes?
Don't know about the others but One Piece had 4 volumes this year (65 to 68)
HxH make it in the top 10 with… One volume (30) published during this period... !
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Kuroko sells because fujoshi strong
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Well, you can see it like this. Shonen Jump is highly popular and targeted mostly towards children, who buy the magazine every week, and then rate their favorite series. And then we have the volumes, who's sales sees an increase of older people buying them. So Kuroko but be popular with older folk, who don't read the Weekly magazine, but wait for each volume. I may be wrong, but that's the only explanation I can give.
I see..Based off this new list it must be the anime that increased the sales for it. People went back to buy the old volumes.
Rank Cover Title Creator Estimated Copies Sold
1 One Piece 65 Eiichiro Oda 3,336,992
2 One Piece 66 Eiichiro Oda 3,320,744
3 One Piece 67 Eiichiro Oda 3,044,901
4 One Piece 68 Eiichiro Oda 2,390,625
5 Naruto 61 Masashi Kishimoto 1,281,309
6 Naruto 60 Masashi Kishimoto 1,266,244
7 Kimi ni Todoke 15 Karuho Shiina 1,242,035
8 Kimi ni Todoke 16 Karuho Shiina 1,212,883
9 Naruto 59 Masashi Kishimoto 1,192,100
10 Hunter X Hunter 30 Yoshihiro Togashi 1,090,309
11 Kimi ni Todoke 17 Karuho Shiina 1,088,947
12 Naruto 62 Masashi Kishimoto 1,055,220
13 Blue Exorcist 8 Kazue Katō 865,836
14 Silver Spoon 2 Hiromu Arakawa 813,989
15 Attack on Titan 6 Hajime Isayama 777,445
16 Blue Exorcist 9 Kazue Katō 743,381
17 Bleach 55 Tite Kubo 742,823
18 Thermae Romae IV Mari Yamazaki 721,456
19 Silver Spoon 3 Hiromu Arakawa 710,387
20 Attack on Titan 7 Hajime Isayama 690,233
21 One Piece 64 Eiichiro Oda 682,057
22 Silver Spoon 4 Hiromu Arakawa 673,210
23 Bleach 54 Tite Kubo 653,085
24 Yotsuba&! 11 Kiyohiko Azuma 647,556
25 Bleach 53 Tite Kubo 640,938
26 Black Butler 13 Yana Toboso 638,108
27 March comes in like a lion 7 Chika Umino 635,166
28 Attack on Titan 8 Hajime Isayama 624,020
29 Black Butler 14 Yana Toboso 615,540
30 Kuroko's Basketball 18 Tadatoshi Fujimaki 601,825
31 Bleach 56 Tite Kubo 600,915
32 Kuroko's Basketball 17 Tadatoshi Fujimaki 599,938
33 Kuroko's Basketball 15 Tadatoshi Fujimaki 599,566
34 One Piece Blue Deep Characters World Original Creator: Eiichiro Oda 595,550
35 Kuroko's Basketball 19 Tadatoshi Fujimaki 587,550
36 Fairy Tail 30 Hiro Mashima 586,015
37 We Were There 16 Yuuki Obata 584,477
38 Kuroko's Basketball 16 Tadatoshi Fujimaki 582,307
39 Fairy Tail 32 Hiro Mashima 581,767
40 Bakuman. 16 Story: Tsugumi Ohba
Art: Takeshi Obata 571,291
41 Detective Conan (Case Closed) 74 Gosho Aoyama 565,901
42 Silver Spoon 1 Hiromu Arakawa 561,466
43 Detective Conan (Case Closed) 76 Gosho Aoyama 556,179
44 Bakuman. 17 Story: Tsugumi Ohba
Art: Takeshi Obata 548,148
45 D.Gray-man 23 Katsura Hoshino 542,903
46 Jojolion (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part
1 Hirohiko Araki 534,996
47 Bakuman. 18 Story: Tsugumi Ohba
Art: Takeshi Obata 534,838
48 Silver Spoon 5 Hiromu Arakawa 526,022
49 Detective Conan (Case Closed) 77 Gosho Aoyama 524,328
50 Thermae Romae V Mari Yamazaki 521,929
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I see..Based off this new list it must be the anime that increased the sales for it. People went back to buy the old volumes.
Prety much what I assumed before that even came up. Its easier to boost the sales of a series by getting people to buy the backlog of series than just buying new volumes because 10 people buying 15 volumes each is more volumes sold than 30 people buying 4 volumes each. Stuff like this is a temporary boost that will fade away. It's the same as how One Piece has fell so much in total sales because it's backlog sold in huge quantities around the strong world period. the top 100 individual volumes is far more important in judging the strength of a series because those numbers are more indicative of long term trends
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How exactly is Kuroko's Basketball so high when it barely makes in the top 5 rankings in WSJ?
Is this an invalid number?
I would expected Toriko to be in that spot.
Kuroko has a strong core fanbase of female fandom. (not all fujoshi, but high percentage)
They are a large consumer base, but they aren't a majority of WSJ readership that participates in polls.
There are very involved core-fans that religiously send in those polls, but the overall number is still just minority compared to millions of boys.But volume purchase is different, adults and core-fans tend to cast their support by buying the books, unlike say, a 10 year old boy.
BTW, the saftey-net of sales that you can discount polls entirely is 500k initial print per volume.
If Bleach dips like 10~20% lower than it is now, then it WILL actually start to be subjected to poll counts.Man, it dipped faster than I expected.
As for Magi…. 2012 sales > total of all Magi sales previous to 2012.
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@No:
It saddens me that something as derivative and soulless as Fairy Tail gets these sorts of numbers even in Japan
I guarantee you that fan service plays a BIG part in the series' sales.
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I imagine this board with it's near-unanimous love of Magi is all quite happy
It eludes me why Kuroko's Basketball is so popular. I've never read it so I can't really comment on that, though.I freaking love Magi, I saw the first episode and saw there was a manga, got hooked, I spent a day reading every chapter, one of my favourite series to read rigth now, its good to see it do well.
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^Huh again,I could have sworn that it was 9 million.
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^Huh again,I could have sworn that it was 9 million.
funny enough it was one piece that had a huge slump, but still is the most popular manga in japan.
2011 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-11-30/top-selling-manga-in-japan-by-series/2011
2012 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-12-02/30-top-selling-manga-in-japan-by-series/2012
OP in 2011 = 37,996,373OP in 2012 = 23,464,866
I predict OP will have a better year with movie Z and punk hazard
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If you look at the new volumes of each year, One Piece averaged only 50,000 less, which considering these numbers are most likely estimates based on statistical methods, might even be within the margin of error considering how much One Piece sells. The vast majority of the difference is because the backlog is selling less, not what's coming out ow
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I have seen it. It is Epic.
Why don't you just rub it in our faces more Mr Official Translator
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Stephen is such a bad guy…
Why does he do this? :sad:
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The Z spread is in the next chapter, yes?
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Yes, it will be in the next chapter.
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is it the same with the one in the seven eleven OP Z commercial video?
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Probably should refrain from asking those details, bro.
Unlike us, Shuueisha's interest for an unpublished material comes in play here. -
owh.. okay.. i am sorry.
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One Piece (Cover, Lead C)
Naruto
Assassination Classroom
Toriko
Nisekoi
Kuroko no Basket (C)
Bleach
Rookie Policewoman Kiruko-san
PSI Saiki Kusuo
Hungry Joker
Hunter x Hunter
Shokugeki no Soma
HQ!
Gintama
Beelzebub
Medaka Box (C)
Sket Dance
Kurogane
Kochikame
Cross Manage
Retsu! Date-senpai
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Cover & Lead C One Piece
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Hm interesting, Naruto and Bleach jumped right back up, but Date and Cross Manage and stuck at the bottom. Do you suppose either of the might get axed?
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I hope Kiruko-san remains that high once it actually enters the rankings…
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Hm interesting, Naruto and Bleach jumped right back up, but Date and Cross Manage and stuck at the bottom. Do you suppose either of the might get axed?
Both to be honest.
If Kurogane manages to suck even harder, one of them will be spared.
Or they manage to get some votes and HJ drops dead as soon as the 8 weeks is up. -
Wow, am shocked that Bleach got back to the top kind of. Naruto goes back and fourthXD
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Have Naruto and Gintama swap places and this TOC is perfect. So glad both Nisekoi and AssClass continue to shine week after week like this. I'm just hoping the former won't get overly dragged out in the hopes of WSJ getting more popular with young female readers by running a slightly longer romance storyline.
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success of nisekoi amaze me…..
kagami-no-kuni was of same mold,yet it was thrashed by public....ST&RS had so much potential but readers rejected it even before the story settled.....getting public fancy seem to be lottery these days....
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stephen, you were so not shitting when you modestly called the spread, "Epic".
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Nice, next week's Kochikame is on manga industry info.
I love how informative Kochikame is on any subject, so it covering manga is a welcome.The number of manga tankoubon (collected volumes) published annually is around 12000, bringing montly releases to about 1000 titles per month.
I did not know this figure, learn something every day.
by tankoben you mean all the volumes(should be 150+) of past 35 years…??!!
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New JUS?!!
I wonder if it will be for 3ds
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by tankoben you mean all the volumes(should be 150+) of past 35 years…??!!
No, no. New tankoubon (volumes) of manga published in Japan every year is 12000.
So there's around 1000 new manga volumes hitting the shelves in Japan every month.That's counting everything of course. The main shounen/shoujo/seinen of course, as well as comic essays, 4-komas, adult, anthologies, etc, etc.
That's why it's laughable whenever someone claims he's seen it all, and read everything out there.
No one is capable of such feat. Hell, the number of currently ongoing manga magazines alone is over 330.
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When Toriko smiles like that he seems like a tremendous perv.
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Oh man Jump Ultimate Stars with Toriko sounds great. Maybe there will be failed jump characters like Bulge and SWOT guy too.
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I would desperately love a new Jump Stars game, but the fact that the 3DS is region-locked kills my potential enthusiasm.
also, it's possible this will be a Battle Stadium D.O.N.-style game, and only use those three series, in which case I don't really mind missing out.
but what I really would like would be a shonen jump fighting game that plays like Marvel vs Capcom. Jump vs Capcom, Marvel vs Jump, Jump vs Itself, I don't care. I just want to wreck shit with Luffy and Bo-bobo in a traditional fighter.
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I would love a Marvel vs Jump / Dragon Ball. That would be so awesome.
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No, no. New tankoubon (volumes) of manga published in Japan every year is 12000.
So there's around 1000 new manga volumes hitting the shelves in Japan every month.That's counting everything of course. The main shounen/shoujo/seinen of course, as well as comic essays, 4-komas, adult, anthologies, etc, etc.
That's why it's laughable whenever someone claims he's seen it all, and read everything out there.
No one is capable of such feat. Hell, the number of currently ongoing manga magazines alone is over 330.oh!ok..i misunderstood…..still considering the monetary value of the industry it is understandable that so many new mangas are coming out every year....
what is the average yearly sell of Kochikame...??..it is running freaking 35 years non stop......to be kept running so long.....!!
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@Cyclone: he certainly does lol. Zebra probs has the biggest cock of them all, and his grin seems a lot more rapey.
And Jump Ultimate Stars is my favourite game. Shame I don't have my r4 with it on anymore.
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Continuing on the Kuroko blackmail case, even Comiket announced cancellation of all Kuroko related stuff.
Over 900 doujin circles planning of releasing Kuroko related doujin and goods cancelled attending the event.Comic Market is the biggest comic event in Japan, with over half a million attenders each festival.
They can't afford to endanger attenders of such a large event.
Reminds me of that one time when some nutcase tried to flame moletov in comiket years ago… -
Actually, while we're on the subject, I've been wondering whether I should give it a chance or not. Is the series any good?
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I'm hoping One Piece has a deus ex machina come its ending. I want to see the Thousand Sunny randomly turn into Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann through the power of courage and nakamaship.
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I've fallen a bit behind in Kuroko, and I don't remember it getting much love from AP, but… if you're into sport series, you'd probably enjoy it.
It's at least worth checking out and judging for yourself if you're a fan of the genre, anyway.
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