
The 2008 market for character goods in Japan was estimated at $17.1 billion, and recently released statistics allow the top anime franchises to be ranked according to how much merchandise they sold, a very important metric as sales of anime goods can dwarf proceeds from anime sales.
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A recent survey of battle manga fans reveals just which action manga have the hottest and most manful battles.
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A survey asking manga fans which titles they would like to see continued anew even after concluding yields some not entirely unsurprising results, although in some cases it is hard to see how the events of the story lend themselves to any continuation…
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Below you can see the most popular manga for men and women aged 10-50, broken down by age group and gender.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, H, News
- Date: Aug 2, 2009 08:15 JST
- Tags: Crime, DVD Extras, Oppai, OVA, Saitama, Shonen, Theft, To Love-Ru


The latest OVA and uncensored manga edition of top oppai anime To Love-Ru is apparently so packed with nipples that one schoolboy couldn’t contain his lust, grabbing the DVD, detailed in pictures below, and attempting to make off with it before being chased down and arrested.
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A survey of the top ten manga the Japanese would like to see left to posterity reveals the paragon of literary greatness in comic form is apparently a basketball manga, and that future generations might be disappointed should they happen not to like shonen manga…
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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.
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Kochikame, the longest continuously running manga in history, will be receiving an adaptation into a TV drama, reveals the latest Weekly Shonen Jump.
Shingo Katori, the youngest member of famous Japanese band SMAP will be playing the role of lazy police officer Kankichi Ryotsu.
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A recent poll by Oricon asked manga fans to rank their favorite manga supporting characters, with Dragonball’s Krillin and One Piece’s Zoro taking the 1st and 2nd spots, respectively.
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Detractors of hit manga Naruto will be gnashing their teeth in anguished frustration with the news that the manga sales charts for the first weeks of May show a spectacular showing from the orange ninja in Japan, with his compiled adventures crushing all comers…
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A survey with an impressive 6,000 participants yielded the following revelations as to which manga were thought most interesting by a general Japanese audience:
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A recent survey conducted by Japan’s chart masters Oricon asked participants which manga they would most like to see made into a live action film.
The results are bound to disturb some, although several answers do seem reasonable…
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