
Charts giant Oricon rank for best selling manga of 2014, with the top spot once again being seized by renowned piracy series One Piece for the 6th year in a row, though with Shingeki no Kyojin hastily cutting the distance in comparison to last year – perhaps to catch up one day soon, not least with Naruto down and out.
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Oricon has released their biannual ranking for the best selling light novels and manga for the first half of 2014, with Shingeki no Kyojin surprising few with its dominating manga sales, now surpassing even the legendary One Piece – though with more curious results from light novels in evidence, as the likes of Kagerou Daze tops the list despite the mediocrity of its associated anime.
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- Author: Leon
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 26, 2012 17:17 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, Fate/Zero, Gundam, K-ON!, Movies, Oricon, Rankings, Statistics

The annual Oricon Blu-ray ranking for 2012 has revealed yet another year in which Japan’s Blu-ray sales have been completely dominated by anime – in this case with Gundam UC the best selling BD in Japan of the entire year, matched only by Fate/Zero (which sold fewer but made more money), with K-ON! coming a mere 4th in discs sold but still handily topping the movie BD charts.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Dec 22, 2012 18:51 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Idol, J-pop, Marketing, Music, Oricon, Otaku, Rankings, Statistics

***48’s total dominance of 2012’s single charts has raised more than a few eyebrows amongst music lovers in Japan, with some voicing concern about the fact non-idol groups now barely feature at all…
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The arrival of Oricon’s light novel sales charts for 2012 has revealed the year belongs to Sword Art Online by a wide margin, with the series being by far the best selling of the year, and with every single SAO title in the featuring in the top 20 best sellers – leading to half the chart being comprised of SAO novels.
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Oricon has published its manga sales charts for the first half of 2012, demonstrating with oppressive certainty that the overpowering dominance of One Piece is not about to end any time soon.
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The widely held belief that the Haruhi franchise is a spent force seems to have been shattered by the news that the latest novel in the series, “The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya” (Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku), has sold a record 341,000 copies.
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A ranking of the top 10 mangaka to have changed the history of manga reveals some distinctly uncontroversial choices.
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Surpassing initial expectations, Evangelion 2.22 has outsold even the mouldering corpse of Michael Jackson to become the best selling Blu-ray ever.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: May 27, 2010 02:56 JST
- Tags: Asuka Langley, Blu-ray, Evangelion, Mari, Marketing, Movies, Oricon, Records, Rei Ayanami

The DVD and Blu-ray release of Evangelion 2.22 You Can (Not) Advance has proven a record-breaking success, with a total of 320,000 copies being sold on the first day alone.
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A Vocaloid album, Vocalogenesis, has hit the number one spot in Japan’s national album charts.
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K-ON! has once again secured a lock on the Japanese single charts by way of Houkago Tea Time, getting both number 1 and 2 slots.
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