Manga in Japan = One Piece
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 19, 2009 00:44 JST
- Tags: Bleach, Marketing, Naruto, One Piece, Rankings, Shonen, Shonen Jump, Statistics
Manga in Japan appears synonymous with One Piece in much the same way that manga overseas is a shorthand for saying “Naruto“, if the latest manga sales figures are anything to go by.
The collected Oricon Top 50 figures for manga sales through the first half of 2009 (shown below) give a complete picture of what manga series are dominating Japan of late, with the usual blockbusters of Bleach, Naruto, and (of course) One Piece dominating much of the list.
- Sales figures shown are for November 11, 2008 – May, 17 2009.
2009 First Half Manga Sales Rankings
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Rank Sales Name 1 1,801,877 ONE PIECE 53 2 1,778,239 ONE PIECE 52 3 1,418,089 NANA 21 4 1,170,718 鋼の錬金術師 21 / Full Metal Alchemist 21 5 1,131,145 NARUTO 45 6 1,068,430 鋼の錬金術師 22 / Full Metal Alchemist 22 7 927,610 BLEACH 36 8 907,714 BLEACH 37
9 864,708 NARUTO 46 10 822,238 BLEACH 38
11 685,186 君に届け 8 / Kimi ni Todoke 8
12 677,411 聖☆おにいさん 3 / Saint☆Onii-san 3
13 619,501 黒執事 6 / Kuroshitsuji 6
14 611,100 D.Gray-man 17
15 598,192 家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN！ 23 / Katekyou Hitman REBORN! 23
16 593,589 名探偵コナン 64 / Detective Conan 64
17 589,656 PLUTO 7
18 572,946 バガボンド 29 / Vagabond 29
19 557,839 銀魂 26 / Gintama 26
20 554,920 家庭教師ヒットマンREBORN！ 24 / Katekyou Hitman REBORN! 24
21 551,829 ガラスの仮面 43 / Garasu no Kamen (Glass Mask) 43
22 545,496 銀魂 27 / Gintama 27
23 493,768 銀魂 28 / Gintama 28
24 465,760 XxxHOLIC 14
25 441,939 3月のライオン 2 / Sangatsu no Lion 2
26 402,965 もやしもん 7 / Moyashimon 7
27 394,567 バクマン。 2 / Bakuman 2
28 381,633 バクマン。 3 / Bakuman 3
29 376,340 ハヤテのごとく！ 18 / Hayate no Gotoku! 18
30 374,257 桜蘭高校ホスト部 14 / Ouran High School Host Club 14
31 373,020 ソウルイーター 14 / Soul Eater 14
32 366,651 FAIRY TAIL 14
33 365,235 聖☆おにいさん 1 / Saint☆Onii-san 1
34 363,446 高校デビュー 13 / Koukou Debut 13
35 347,574 あひるの空 23 / Ahiru no Sora
36 334,536 メイちゃんの執事 1 / Mei-chan no Shitsuji 1
37 332,697 聖☆おにいさん 2 / Saint☆Onii-san 2
38 332,338 ツバサ 25 / Tsubasa 25
39 331,985 FAIRY TAIL 13
40 327,918 NARUTO 44
41 324,396 クロスゲーム 14 / Cross Game 14
42 321,461 ツバサ 26 / Tsubasa 26
43 319,543 ハヤテのごとく！ 19 / Hayate no Gotoku! 19
44 317,381 MAJOR 70
45 317,125 WORST 22
46 316,221 あひるの空 22 / Ahiru no Sora 22
47 315,469 結界師 23 / Kekkaishi 23
48 315,150 デトロイト・メタル・シティ 7 / Detroit Metal City 7
49 313,845 蟲師 10 / Mushishi 10
50 313,214 MAJOR 69
Sales after May 17 are not included in the list, but including the figures we saw in the June 2009 Oricon charts would put the new One Piece 54 volume at the #4 spot, or possibly even into the top 3 if even more recent sales figures were available.
Another June release, Bleach 39 would also come into this list at around spot #23, making this yet another strong performance for Shonen Jump titles, which also includes One Piece and Naruto.
Gangan, Square-Enix’s own encyclopedia-thick manga magazine, comes in second to Jump with popular titles Full Metal Alchemist and Kuroshitsuji also earning respectable numbers.
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Its nice to see at least that the chart is all controlled by shonen (with Mushishi and Moyashimon in the chart).
Mushishi FTW!
Why is that 'good to see'?
Cuz if we were to go buy what animes get made, one would think that girl-laden manga would dominate. While these titles certainly don't shy away from girls, they're mostly titles by and for males. That's good because that's the strength of manga....no matter how good/weird/nice/innovative shoujo is, shounen is bigger and stronger....more boys read comics than girls. It's refreshing because it shows that manga doesn't have to chuck in service like anime does just to sell titles....the fact that there is a whole genre(s) of manga that DO give us that service is just awesome though! Thanx Japan!
.......unsurprisingly predictable
FUCK YEAR SAINT ONII-SAN
Sakura: Naruto let's go to the beach, I want to wear my new onepiece.
Lol@OP wank.
It's always fun to see how all the tards make it sound more awesome than it actually is.
Maybe cause you are too old and have watched too much anime. Sure we hype it up, because we like it. Nothing personal if it sounded that way. Peace.
one peace
one piece
Haha, retard....
Theres a reason why one piece is top
At least Nana is in the top 3! Yay!
I am not surprised One Piece deserves all the praise it gets. It truly is an original piece of work and unlike such things as bleach and naruto it has a good story working for it. The latest arc for example is simply amazing. The story seems to actually have characters grow (not just one or two but you can see how many of the characters including the villains grow over time through decent character development. The manga works. I think it deserves the praise it gets and although it sometimes gets repetitive (sort of anyways) it is still quite good. Seriously the series grows on you over time.
FMA, Negima!, and Soul Eater are all good manga that should be represented as well as having some of the better plots in manga. These are just my opinion mind you,
You don't even read Naruto (apparently) , but yet spew such a crap. Talking about ignorance.
Anyway...
One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, etc... Same sh#t, different title. Shounen (running for decades) with the same stereotypes, actually going nowhere and should have ended a long time ago.
You saying Naruto and Bleach is the same as One Piece just made me go WTF. Have you read them? Or are you one of those moetards?
After 4KIDS (FOX) showed One Piece, I was so freaking pissed at how they presented One Piece. Luckily at the time my Anime Club was showing 4 episodes of One Piece every Friday in the evening at College (and sometimes we even marathoned it for a full day (lol)). We even watched the movies too, which were good as well. America needs more One Piece and honestly everyone in the World need more One Piece!
Sure One Piece is a very long Shonen Show, I will admit. But if you read the manga, like we encouraged a club member, it took him 5 & 1/2 days to get to chapter 450. And guess what...he was the kind of person that thought One Piece was 'Stupid' and 'Freakin' Retarded' show for kids. Now, all he talks about is One Piece (He used to be a Narutard and now he's a OnePiecetard, LMFAO!)
You used a pronoun! Keep up the good work!
Sangatsu no Lion is on the list?
Oh, now I'm really pissed that it's not being translated.
I think it's being translated by BWYS.org.
Hell ya!
One Piece foreva!
Will it past the golden 1k chapter mark? At this rate, anything's possible if it's that franchise.
it doesnt need to pass 1k to be the best manga ever, even better than dragon ball
geez, a lot of that top 50 list are not even memorable. how the fuck are they so popular, wtf
Lol, you watch too many fanservice anime. That stuff is unmemorable. Srsly?
One Piece is load of overhyped crap. Anyone remember DBZ and how ridiculously overhyped it was? This is just the new thing except the only difference between One Piece and DBZ is that One Piece is the bigger cash cow lol.
Only people who havent read it enough say this.
hey do you know that Dragonball 1st edition's set of manga worth 100X$ more than the second edition, yes, 1000$ CA around each book, you can sell it even higher if you have the whole set (1st edition)***the 1st edition is bigger and larger than a normal manga it has more pages too. and from back then, dragon ball has the top sale so I think the worth both of them is equal.
Butthurt One Piece hater!
Unlike Naruto and DB, One Piece deserves all the praise and popularity it gets!
well if you ask me which manga I 'm willing to buy it would be dragonball and one piece~~~ I can read them over and over~~~ but something like naruto ~ once is enough, no offense
Vagabond=Samurai
Gintama is excellent.
One piece too.
Include Full Metal Alchemist and Ill agree.
One Piece fucking rules you cunts.
<3 One Piece!
Mainstream titles sure dominate and resonate their names everywhere. Gah~
"mainstream" in manga/anime is not the same as the "mainstream" in music.
Yeah, in music, most people in the world have horrible tastes. That means most people listen to crappy music, and most means mainstream. Not the case with manga though.
...That statement was awfully redundant... how can something be 'mainstream' and not dominating and resonating their names everywhere? That is the whole essence of the term mainstream.
Gah~~ v_v
What can you expect? One Piece still rocks my socks off like it used to, while Naruto is becoming more and more Bleach every day. Let's not even go into Bleach... Have they left Namek yet?
lol, nice!
Wow,i didn't expect Nana and FMA is still strong but the sales are bit disappointing nowadays compare to the manga in the 80s and 90s that sells 2m and above.
FMA became popular again thanks to the recent anime.
Hooray for that. This and One Piece deserve it.
Naruto=shyt
However, stupid westerns like so-called ninjas better than pirates
so...
still, in history ninjas never fight each other in groups and so uncovered.
But in history pirates do make adventures.
again, westerners are too lazy and stupid to check these history.
One Piece=shyt
However, stupid westerns like so-called pirates better than ninjas so…
still, in history pirates never fight each other with stretchy rubber arms.
But in history ninnjas do make adventures.
again, westerners are too lazy and stupid to check these history.
narutard detected :D
u was baited
"again, westerners are too lazy and stupid to check these history." - heh
ultra-fail
you must be quite bored.
"But in history ninnjas do make adventures."
They perform missions and suppose to be silent, unlike Naruto
lol, win.
Goddamn, it's like retards fighting over whose shit smells better, both aren't exactly stellar.
Don't you just love babelfish translations?
Always gives me a good laugh when someone's statement get's twisted, because the are 'too lazy and stupid to check these history'... ehm, I mean dictionaries.
Or perhaps they don't give a rats ass about how historically correct it is. They might just read it *gasp* and then decide whether it's fun/intriguing/etc or not.
hla amiga
Yessssss
So wut is the interesting story in One Piece vol.53?
Read it.
at least isn't Naruto
at least
or bleach
One Piece is actually really good. Sadly when 4kids picked it up here, they screwed it up really badly.
This manga really made me cry at the Enies Lobby Arc. It sounds silly to cry for a boat, but Oda somehow, someway, made that arc go great that it had be crying.
Couldn't agree more about Enies Lobby. Merry's moment is still one of the saddest things I have ever read, manga or not.
Really had no idea Pluto was still going. Seemed like it was close to the end last time I had read it(Over a year ago, chapter 40ish). Would have rather seen it end early then drag out(since most of the interesting characters were already dead).
Fuck yeah! One Piece! The Skypiea arc was really damn good as well. One Piece has such a great sense of adventure and there isn't a useless character.
The current Arc is MAD HYPE.
The only thing I didn't like about Skypiea is how dramatic it gets whenever someone supposedly dies but doesn't really die. No one dies after getting fatal wounds, yet they still show the little girl crying when someone "disappears".
Well makes sense. The girl, afterall, doesn't know that they didn't die...
And cool name Jin.
You aware Funimation is dubbing it? God, why do internet whiners always forget that?
Coz it's just as horrible.
They are getting better though.
Pretty much as expected...
Those three again..
Only one of them in THAT 3 deserve it really... You probably know which one
whatta bout Full Metal Alchemist?? why does no one pay attention to that!
54 Volumes goddamn. That's like the Simpsons of Manga. Yeah, just checked wiki, OP started August 4 1997.
Robin so hot!!
Hurray for hitman reborn at 20.
because FMA! is good and deserves it's place.
Dondake! Gintaman hasn't ended? They should cancel it already.
@Airman
Someone should cancel you
This just proves you're an unworthy fan. My whole comment can be taken from Gintama. Dondake(Shinpachi), Gintaman, needs canceling(Gintoki).
Nice fail.
+1
hooray for Gintama!!!
oh no
i don't like op
where is the k-on？？？？
Lol. K-On is just another moeblob, nothing actually interesting. No plot, no (good) characters, no substance. Its just a fictional story of how the characters live their lives (they arent even real...).
One Piece > K-on anytime anyday imo ^^
+1
QFT.
Yes, you've reminded me that, no matter how crappy I find this chart to be, at least it isn't THAT bad.
It's about time you correct Artefact's mistake.
Well duh...Oda is a genius after all...
I think One Piece is also big in a few countries in the EU,like Germany for example...maybe.
聖☆おにいさん FUCK YEAH, best series ever.
well, not the right one if you're searching for fap material, but among the other ones, it's the best.
yea, definitely have to agree with you there. saint onisan is one of the best mangas out now, it should be higher on the chart.
Hayate Volume 18 in 29th place and Volume 19 in 43rd place... This is an outrage!
what is you guys problem is not because is popular for this success.
popularity contributes to an animes success
popularity also contribes on how an anime gets overrated
Heheh, glad to see "Vegabond" and "Detroit Metal City" on the list
Set fail for Japan.
Too bad people miss out on this because of the dirrent animation style. But I recently got my friend hooked on the anime. He went from doubtful to 4/5 stars. The great thing is that the show both make you laugh your ass off and cry a flood of tears at some moment. One Piece is my Death Note...
popularity is unfortunately predictable :|
One Piece is superior. Fuck Naruto.
FMA right up there with One Piece :) Both had a good story, good and funny characters, and both had really good omake.
Gotta love them omake. A lot better comedy than most comedy magazines and comics here in America >.>
you dont need to say anything. statistics speak for themselves