Top 10 Manga of 2009: Demographic Breakdown
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Aug 10, 2009 21:44 JST
- Tags: Marketing, Naruto, One Piece, Rankings, Shonen, Shoujo Manga, Statistics
Below you can see the most popular manga for men and women aged 10-50, broken down by age group and gender.
The retail sales data used covers the year ending June 2009. For each title the single best selling compilation volume of the period is used as the basis; sales are not aggregated over the entire series.
The results might best be interpreted cautiously, as some of the top sellers dwarf other titles in their list, and not all of the demographics represent similarly sized markets.
That aside, the results:
Men:
10-20
1. ONE PIECE
2. NARUTO
3. Full Metal Alchemist
4. BLEACH
5. Hayate no Gotoku
6. Hitman Reborn
7. Soul Eater
8. FAIRY TAIL
9. D.Gray-Man
10. To Love-Ru
20-30
1. ONE PIECE
2. Full Metal Alchemist
3. HUNTERxHUNTER
4. NARUTO
5. BLEACH
6. Negima!
7. Tenjo Tenge
8. Black Lagoon
9. Hayate no Gotoku
10. Yotsuba-to!
30-40
1. ONE PIECE
2. Vagabond
3. PLUTO
4. BASTARD!!
5. Full Metal Alchemist
6. Berserk
7. HUNTERxHUNTER
8. NARUTO
9. Initial D
10. Yotsuba-to!
40-50
1. ONE PIECE
2. PLUTO
3. Initial D
4. Nodame Cantabile
5. NARUTO
6. Shacho Kousaku Shima
7. Full Metal Alchemist
8. Zipang
9. Kamen Rider Spirits
10. BASTARD!!
Women:
10-20
1. Kimi ni Todoke
2. Kuroshitsuji
3. D.Gray-Man
4. Hitman Reborn
5. Ouran High Host Club
6. Koukou Debut
7. Gintama
8. Boku no Hatsukoi
9. BLEACH
10. NANA
20-30
1. NANA
2. Kimi ni Todoke
3. ONE PIECE
4. Nodame Cantabile
5. Ouran High Host Club
6. Kuroshitsuji
7. Full Metal Alchemist
8. Sei Onii-chan
9. xxxHOLIC
10. Skip Beat!
30-40
1. NANA
2. Nodame Cantabile
3. ONE PIECE
4. Glass no Kamen
5. Full Metal Alchemist
6. NARUTO
7. Kuroshitsuji
8. Sei Onii-chan
9. Skip Beat!
10. Detective Conan
40-50
1. Nodame Cantabile
2. Glass no Kamen
3. NARUTO
4. ONE PIECE
5. BLEACH
6. Hitman Reborn
7. Kuroshitsuji
8. Full Metal Alchemist
9. Detective Conan
10. NANA
Manga can now perhaps be summed up as One Piece with a dash of Naruto and Full Metal Alchemist, as well as Nana and Nodame Cantabile…











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one piece everywhere.. damn.. one piece all the way!!!
all the way to one piece!!!!
Those who hate one piece and havent read it up to chapter 80 should fall in a bottomless pit with spikes on the wall while flamethrowers flame them until their vital organs show which will spread out and be ripped to pieces by the spikes. I'm sorry but people who hate by first impressions suck.
In another point, One piece has Nico Robin, the most hottest mature female in all animes and mangas.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!
Sorry, but yeah people who judge a manga on first impressions are basically mentally retarded. but in all fairness after 80 chapters its pretty much past the first impression stage...
and yes. Nico Robin is hot
1. ONE PIECE
2. NARUTO
3. Full Metal Alchemist
4. BLEACH
Atma is rolling in her grave :\
Well, Skip Beat is on there, so at least people like SOMETHING good.
pshh~ @ Shounen titles XD
can't believe one piece is so popular over there.
zipang is so much win.
i'm delighted about one piece being No 1 =)
Also seeing Naruto and Bleach in positions that ppl consider unfair is even better =)
about the other mangas its nice to know that ppl in jap have different tastes, i think i've read more than the half of those in that list and they are good
also i'm impressed that i thought i was the only one in the world reading VAGABOND huh oh surprise
Bet you one piece made it to the top cuz of the boat scene. *sniff* that was sad.
And yes I know Clannad or air or someother Serious romance genre is much more heart wrenching but it is rare for me to feel this way towards a shounen character, specially one that is inanimate.
One Piece is the new standard for shonen, and all the faggots should go to hell! They're lames & worthless! Anon bet they didn't even bother to read it! Fail!
Wow, what a load of crap... Berserk might be the only manga worth picking up out of those lists.
Oh, come on. Black lagoon is awesome too. Not as good as Berserk but still...
Berserk should have higher rankings. It's friggin awesome (and has phallus and vaginas)
BTW I find it quite sad that Battle Angel Alita isn't mentioned here...
If thats what you read manga for then there are other alternatives.....
...like doujins
Some list fo' light novels?
Heh. I guess everyone believes that their taste is better than any other sentient being in the universe.
Thats one of the rules of Human psychology:
1. I am always right
2. I am superior
3. I am God
4. I am Special
5. Ore wa GUNDAM!!
this manga demographic breakdown is interesting =3
hahahhaha will one piece ever end???
I got every one of the top 10 right. Well, not in any particular order, but all the ones I thought of showed up all the same.
ONE PIECE CONQUERS ALL
Kimi ni todoke and Skip Beat are awesome~ glad to see that they're enjoying pretty good popularity <3
I adore Yatsubato. I'm glad it gets as much love as all these other manga. I'm a bit blown away by the Naruto popularity though. I can understand One Piece being on top, but I would always expect to see the Bleach on top of Naruto any day. Better art, better characterization, and a story that can actually be followed, plus a legit excuse for everyone to be using over the top magic and skills.
Sweet Negima and FullMetal *thumbs up*
One Piece is legend, I'm not surprised that it managed to made it's way to the top.
Yay for Negima! & Kamen Rider Spirits ? Well yeah, look at the age group...40 - 50, guess there's still a lot of old school rider-fans out there.
I'm a rider-fan too ! :3
No gantz? :(
from what i can see, i conclude that
Men 0 - 10
1. to love ru
that's right, us teens love our to love ru!
At least us women got it right. Gintama rocks! I laugh so hard when reading it. ^_^
Both the anime and manga rock,the only series that has ever made me laugh my ass out aside from Ranma
Fujoshi love Sanji x Zoro slash doujins!
but there aren't enough of them
I half expected the opening picture to be Luffy extending his penis....
r u gay ,sir?
woW d.GRAYM-MAN is still vigent I hope more chapters for th emanga ;_;
woot for kimi ni todoke :3
the anime has just come out this month, w00t
one piece is crap.
it seems you have done a very careful deduction from the statistics up there!
One Piece is the only series that I absolutely love.
one piece can own you
one piece owns
one piece=badass,kickass,epic,lots of ownage scenarios,
AWESOME
bleach is SHIT & it is more shittier now
naruto sucks>for gays & girls or naruto have 70% gay fans
gay trolls>be a man,try one piece
One Piece is an excellent manga, my favourite by far.
Naruto was on its level a few years ago, but now has become very very bad.
Bleach just sucks period.
Full Metal Alchemist is pretty good.
Negima and Hunter x Hunter are amazing.
Tenjo Tenge sucks really hard, not as much as Bleach though.
Vagamond, Beserk and BASTARD!! are superb seinen mangas.
There you have it, a 100% objective rating of all the mangas I've read on these lists.
one piece wins. haters just don't know enough about it.
The main reason I didn't like One Piece its becaused I have no time to watch it, yet even read the manga itself.
ah...Naruto. no worry, i love it...one piece, and bleach too...well mainstream mangas are nice
i can't believe peoples talk about majority in japan and hell yes one piece ftw. but when they see naruto. oh its sucks and don't see, that its in same league as one piece in popularity, sales. not on the top of course but still on number two or three and that's also damn majority in japan and proven facts even you how much hate it its still there dominating other series if not one piece.
btw don't say i havn't read one piece or some other series. i have read 612 op and 525 naruto and 434 bleach chapters (released until now) and 50% other series in the top 10 list.
so to all those retards, who just know how to troll. just get over the facts, peoples have different taste. don't force your opinion on others.
Needs more Conan-kuun.