Oricon has released results of their poll for the “most interesting” manga of 2008.
Putting aside the more formal statistics of manga sales numbers, the results provide a glimpse of what series are most preferred by Japan’s manga reading public.
The poll was conducted by Oricon, the main arbitrator of sales rankings for everything from DVDs to theater tickets in Japan. Their statistics are what are used in the anime DVD sales numbers presented so frequently online.
Japanese ranging from ages 10-40 were questioned on what manga they considered to be “omoshiroi”, the Japanese word closest to the English “interesting” but also incorporating elements of “amusing, funny, delightful.” The “approval rating” indicates what percentage of those questioned consider the manga to be omoshiroi.
As happens too often with these sort of polls, a sample size number is not given, nor are many more details such as geographical location of those questioned available.
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Ranking Series Approval Rating 1 ONE PIECE 45.9 2 のだめカンタービレ / Nodame Cantabile 38.8 3 NANA 32.5 4 NARUTO 23.6 5 Hunter x Hunter 23.1 6 Bleach 18.8 7 黒執事 / Kuroshitsuji 17.0 8 ブラッディ・マンデイ / Bloody Monday 16.5 9 君に届け / Kimi ni Todoke 15.5 10 聖☆おにいさん / Saint☆Oniisan 11.2
As it has been since time immemorial, Shonen Jump titles dominate the list of popular manga titles; 4 of the magazine’s series make up nearly half of the list – Naruto, Bleach, Hunter x Hunter and with One Piece taking the crown for #1 most interesting manga of 2008.
Nodame Cantabile grabs the #2 spot, unsuprising giving the popularity of the series in the 2008 Manga Sales Ranking where it took the #3 ranking.
Indeed, this list looks quite similar to the 2008 Manga Sales list, as most of the titles listed here were also among the top 20 best-selling of 2008. The only titles here that were not on that list are Bloody Monday (a shonen action series) and Saint☆Oniisan, an odd comedy/slice of life series of Jesus and Buddha sharing an apartment in modern day Japan…
Picture of Nico by Megadriv.
Via Oricon.
It seems to me One piece is first on every list hm.
ahhh… more “endless” anime/manga. I can’t stand manga and anime that are as long as these. Why are the long ones always the ones on top? I can understand how and why these would get onto the list of most profitable, but is there no short manga that’s incredible like Ghost in the Shell these days? I won’t dispute the quality of intelligence in Shonen stuff like Naruto and One Piece, but there’s gotta be something more like GitS, that’s more of an artistic staple?
I don’t see whats so bad with “endless” anime/manga as you put it. The reason why the long ones are at the top is because people like the manga and they also like the fact that the manga they like is still going. Fair enough all storys need to end but short mangas are by no means better than long ones because of length.
Fool…
I´d like to understand how can someone like Hunter x Hunter…
Berserk, thread over.
you know what Eiichiro Oda is fucking genius and one piece is getting even more interesting with each episode. you people don’t read the manga so you don’t get it.
in naruto and bleach the story is so predictable and and they add many caracters which are not needed in the story, like sai in naruto and where the hell is he now anyway. and that naruto is always in training and always weak, but now he looks pretty strong but after like 30 episode of training…
and in bleach i like Tite Kubo’s drawing specially the girls with big boobs but the story is getting dull now cause of too much fighting.. the first arc in the soul society was interesting but after that kudo killed the manga with too much fighting.
but is one piece the story is big and very satisfying. its amazing how Oda delivers such big story in a simple and interesting way. for me oda is a real genius..
usual idiot always thinkings the girls with big boobs ae “pretty” btw i’m a girl I large boobs but i dont like it to be center of attention get over ur self
so angry yet so true.
i fucking love one piece, i enjoyed naruto and bleach but right now bleach is sucking pretty bad. the characters are getting all these fancy new forms… that i don’t care about.
one piece has the unfortunate curse of being hated on by arrogant, ignorant fucks who wish they knew better yet are all the more so stupid for hating one piece because it looks fun.
as for the lame, weakling way up there who said that one piece has a horrendous art style… must be fucking blind. comparing it to sailor moon also took away whatever credibility that poster wished he/she had. people with no taste shouldnt be given internet access.