Manga in America = Naruto

Naruto>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>One Piece

One Piece is a neverending "adventure" with shitty character desighns, plot etc.

When is Luffy going to find the legendary "One Piece"? Maybe after another 25 years and 20-30 islands later lol. Hilarious when they find said treasure and hey there is nothing there and Luffy smiling like an idiot saying "ah well it was for the adventure after all". Oda would have trolled so many One Piecetards and fans lol. Seriously Shonen Jump knows a cash cow when it sees one.

Damn Naruto! One Piece is way better.

Where is One Piece?

am i the only otaku in the world who zealously dissects existentialist themes in space operas and ALSO has a soft spot for uzumaki & co? ok let the flame start. gah i should just sage myself...

wow, i just read all the comments....gah, theres a lotta people w/diff opinions out there. but, i guess ill add a little to the table. yea, i agree w/some of you that naruto was kinda ruined by the ridiculous fans and their hideously huge #'s, but i also think that naruto is disliked on the net not 'cause its mainstream, but cause its obvious that there are so many more anime/manga that are way better that people could kno about. of course, theres also what some people said 'bout the whole eight or so releases in a few months, which happened twice already. the little ten year old naruto fanboys and the emo fangirls who dont read online are probly just so obsessed they need to buy all the manga (courtesy of their ignorance of the fact that the internet has pretty much everything, including better manga and anime ;o) tho, i hafta say the reason im not into naruto as much as i used to be is cause its so friggin' long it gets tiresome and boring seein' the blonde kid say "i fight for my friends! blablabla! friendship = power!" and more crap like that. but, either way, sales show, little american boys want some ninjas right now.

p.s.: dont judge me cause im tryin to sound smart...cause im not ;D

p.s.s.: lol, also to all u OP fans who are tryin to sound like OP isnt mainstream and that it's unique, it kinda isnt...so you plz be quiet

I guess it goes to show how different markets work for both countries. Japan's five fan favorite shounen's didn't include Naruto. Japan's top selling manga series also includes Naruto (bottom of the fifth) but one series that fulfills both criteria as mentioned was the series SLAM DUNK. Even if Slam Dunk did have a 10 year head start (started in 1990), its still amazing considering that it only ran for 6 years and 31 volumes and the anime still gets aired in Asian countries. It filed the gap on the huge basketball fever that hit Asia in the 90's or so. America has always been engrossed on ninjas, more so with the media attempts of it in the 80's and 90's such as American Ninja, Surf Ninjas, TMNT, etc.

In all I can care less since I've gone tired of reading Kishimoto's horrible writing. So I actually do what most wouldn't: just read other shounens and titles in general as opposed to just TALKING about it.

Well, while I won't say Naruto is shit gtfo, I'm glad I no longer have to acquire the anime for my uncle...have been slightly contemplating trying to read me some of the manga.

Well i wear headbands and gloves as normasl attire BUT i also read and watchother series $6000 and counting oh i also wear negima wristbands and a necklace as well as the bleach wallet chain i got yet those arn't my only shows. Just making the poit that people who watch naruto an get a kick out of it don't just stick to naruto actually it's one of my least favorite at this pojnt in time i'm mainly watching/ reading engima and rosario vampire mainly watching maria holic and sora o kakeru so don't just assume that the folks wearing the stuff just like that. But i also agree it's a shame tht negima or rosario among them couldn't have made it.

Well,in America it is a litte better than some zones of China?

The elevens were just has shocked has I was at this.....I mean sure there is a reason I never admit to anyone I like anime and manga: most of the fandom are damn retarded. This sales chart are proof.

You turn your back to the world for just one second, and what happens?

....I'm speachless

*double facepalm* wow shows how many narutards there are in america.

wow the power of naruto. its to strong

“What about One Piece?”

LOLOLOL

Looks like some people never heard of the hellspawn known as 4Kids!........

It's painful...it's the same over here in england. My cute loli cousin likes it but refuses to be educated in other manga. It makes me want to cry.

united states of narutards

This is probably because they just had a glut of translations of Naruto to catch up, I mean, most of those were released at the same time so people just caught up all at once and tilted the sales ridiculously. I bought them all within the same week, lol.

America needs more One Piece fans.

nicez

If I ever see someone reading a narutard manga in public I'll just opt to kick their weeaboo ass.

Well Naruto's alright, but that's a bit much. So many narutards. It's kinda sad. I'm surprised bleach did so badly in comparison. I'm happy gentlemen's alliance made it in the list though.

*Throws up* God isn't that chick really like 86 years old? Oh yeah and Naruto sucks.

What worse, the narutards or these all annoying fags who starts hating on everything once it turns popular?

Answer:
Both parties are equally gay and patethic, fact.

Lulz, "embarrassing truth". Ahh, well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

NOT.
Wow, seriously. WOW.

40th?

lol american needs a hero in time of recession

and guess what,the 'this is my nindo' over-rated tard really fills the job neatly in usa(not superman,not batman,not _fill_in_teh_blank_...man,but your legendary naruto uzumaki)

I actually figured this out a really long fucking time ago. Americans don't know shit about manga OR anime. I hear the same three titles (Naruto, Inuyasha, Full Metal Alchemist) and now, unfortunately, Bleach, being thrown around like their the only Japanese animation on TV. and poor Code Geass just lurks in the background, waiting for some limelight. Anime sucks here.

A couple of years ago it was Anime= Dragon Ball. And now it's Anime and Manga= Bleach and Naruto. What next? -_-

manga= naruto?! omg, this is blasphemy

“Naruto is vastly overrated overseas…”

Whatever numberth!!!

I agree with 2Chan. Why ISN'T To-Luv-Ru in the U.S. yet?

Also: foolish yankees with their not-reading of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! ^_^

I know this might never get read, but just posting something everyone seemed to neglect. Around that time earlier in the year naruto manga were being released 3 volumes a month, with 41 (i think) being the last. So if you went to the store to buy one, why not buy all 3? or even all 6 or 9 if you were behind? i can say that i bought all 3 every month as did my friends that still buy manga. by now i bet the selling lists are back to normal.

Naruto is a solid shounen that doesn't deserve all the shit it's getting, but like someone said, most are just cranky cuz their favourite mangas ain't having the same success, but they tend to forget that Naruto is just the launching pad, after they're done with it they will go looking for something else to read.

Shit, I'm gonna buy myself another round.

“So let’s have a Hollywood live action version then guys…”

NO.

I can't help but feel that the sheer volume of comments in here is somewhat telling. Say what you will about the series, this article has roughly double the average number of responses (even after subtracting the first 30 or so, for obvious reasons).

Love it or bandwagon hate it, at least you're all paying attention to it, which I think suits Viz just fine.

I really can't see it as a negative that the series is enjoying such success. After all, as long as manga remains profitable, our shared hobby will in turn remain easily accessible.

Doesn't surprise me at all considering that the bookstore I work at gets about 40 copies of the new volumes of Naruto when they come out. At most, we only get ten volumes of other things (which would be stuff like Rosario Vampire and Vampire Knight, etc).

This isn't a large city like New York or Chicago, either, so it's pretty amazing that we get this many volumes of new manga, even if it is Naruto. They fly right off the shelves, sometimes before we can even get the cart to the section.

where the hell is death note, GTO, claymore, and gin tama? oh wait, the people who actually like more complex, entertaining, and different manga are too broke buying collectibles, that they just read and download it from the internet.

meanwhile, all the little nublets are jumping on the bandwagon of crappily dubbed "believe it" anime with a fat american lady as the voice for a ninja.

Lets see here...i have a headband, and in the 3 years i've had it ive worn it for about 6 minutes total. I have one Naruto movie on DVD and its a bootleg. I have read every Naruto that's been in US SJ, but i can't remember the last TV episode i saw (started reading the manga b4 i had ever seen the show) and i have zero collected volumes (i have 2 death note volumes and 2 hikaru no go volumes). i have never had *real* ramen, i eat that cup of soup stuff maybe 2x a month and i've been doing that long b4 Naruto. No toys. No video games. No posters/wall scrolls. Is Naruto good? I think so. Is it the best anime/manga thing ever? No, not nearly. Does it deserve all the "OMG WHY DO YOU READ/WATCH SUCH CRAP"? Not by a longshot.

Not surprising, Naruto has been dominating the charts for years now. Unlike most manga in the US, naruto had a widely broadcast ed TV show airing at reasonable hours on CN while the otaku anime is very few and shown too late on AS to gain any fan traction. Bleach also aired on AS and its much lower popularity ranking shows it.
I don't know much about Black Cat, but Gentlemen s' Alliance is a popular shoujo title(my sis reads it) and females are beginning to dominate the industry here, so its not surprising as well.

2ch says all those shit but Naruto 95% of them also enjoy Naruto. Hypocrisy at its best.

Manga in America = Naruto

In my experience here in some region in the Phil.
when you show a manga to avarage teenagers, they will say, "Is that A naruto? I've read A naruto once, it was cool". "I've seen my friend reading A naruto". "I was looking at A naruto in the bookstore"

Naruto = A Japanese Style Comic book (not a title of a manga)

successful sale is successful.

A big part of this is that, while older people who are into manga prefer a wider variety of genres, they also find it harder to justify spending money on large amounts of it when they have more pressing expenses. Couple that with the ever-crumbling economy, the embarrassment some feel about their hobby, and the sparse availability of many of the better seinen titles in English, and it all adds up to lower sales for all but the stereotypical shounen teen-punk-with-sword-battle-manga. I myself am not embarrassed by it, but I find very few titles worth spending on in the English manga market. Most of the titles I am fanatical about have yet to hit American shores, and for many of them it's unlikely they ever will. The market needs to diversify beyond juvenile fight-of-the-week-part-42, mindless-moe, and tentacle rape or what little spare cash I have is staying in the bank. Until then I'll stick to my scanlations where I can at least find some diversity and depth, handled with care by people who love it for people who love it.

What a state that industry truly is in.

Damnit, me and my friend have been going out of our way for shit like this NOT to happan, ive bought like 4 copies of Hayate no Gotoku up to vol 10

Oh well its all good for VIZ i guess... even though like YENPress since they have manwha too :P

. . . damn. . . brace for naruto live action guys~~~~

. . . . .orz

These results come, like, every single time there's a comic rating here. This is not news.

Kinda sad considering how much is actually out there on the shelves besides Naruto. I'm in the US and I've never so much as seen an entire episode or opened up a Naruto manga, and I'm quite content with that. I prefer to read xxxHolic and Welcome to the N.H.K. among many other manga, and watch a large variety of anime like probably most everyone here. Maybe it's deserving of some of it's success, but I think people need to sample other things and open their minds a bit more to diversity.

People in the US are so simple minded, this is just one of numerous proofs about it.

And it is the same reason why DBZ was so popular before Naruto.

Those people can't be bothered reading something that would make their brain work for more than simple perception.

Hmmmm....I have a real life experienced to share.

I once befriended a girl at the orientation at my current college. We talk with each other always until one time I was listening to J-pop songs while doing my work.

She said, "Ewwww....You like Japanese things? You must be an otaku!"

Then we never talk as much as before. But one day I saw her watching Naruto on her laptop. So does that make her an otaku too?

Hypocrites, or so mainstream I'd say XD

You may want to mention the "best seller list for the USA" is in fact the New York Times Best Seller list, one of the most recognized by US publishers:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/graphic-books-best-seller-lists/

I'm surprised to see so many USD$7.95 manga. They are rarely that cheap when I buy, even three to four dollars more, though I suppose it has something to do with titles that have extra long volumes.

Americans need to see the good stuff... I pity them. But I guess the good stuff doesn't make as much profit as Naruto. Sooner of later its gonna be like DBZ with characters that don't die, and endless, repetitive combat scenes - all with Naruto's melodrama in between.

Honestly, I think that's a lot better than DBZ or Pokemon being at the top, like they used to be. At least American kids are moving forward with the times. A little.

Let's not forget, too, that a ton of "reading" with kids is influenced by what they are "viewing". The most widely-accessible station for viewing anime in America is Cartoon Network, which is a huge Naruto and Bleach pimp. Same for One Piece, from time to time.

If Anime Network or something like it - that specializes in ONLY anime - became a part of the basic/standard cable in America (like Cartoon Network is), then you'd see American manga "reading" tastes start to rapidly change.

Well, that's quite a boring list. I really hope to see more titles of other mangas to make it there. I'm getting tired of all the Narutos. Where is Rosario+Vampire? Shana? Little Busters? Hayate the Combat Butler? Kurokami? Toradora?

"Ninja.
Ninjutsu.
Action.
Simple story.
Protagonist is blonde.
Oppai.”

Hmm yes, yes. To make it short we can just say they like blonde, and oppai.