Quick take: Sales Ranking Comparisons.
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-16 00:09:31
I was also going to analyse my GN sales rankings with the ICv2 numbers (top 10 to top 10) but they haven’t posted their October numbers yet. I suppose I can come back with an update whenever they get around to that…
act a be at the for their very few graphic novel and manga listings to see if that helps put my charts (comparative rankings of both the and by online sales) into perspective:
75. ( ↑ from 84) Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney#27 on my recent online sales rankings and that’s down slightly as it was #19 in October.
Not including Naruto vols. 22-24 which appear on both USA Today’s list and my own that means there are still 22 graphic novels out there that are doing at least as come up as Diary of a Wimpy Kid (online at any rate) that never made the UT chart and presumably just aren’t selling as well in the bookstores from which those numbers are drawn. What are they?(in sales request from my Top 100 GN chart) 30 Days of Night. Heroes Graphic Novel 1. The Arrival by Shaun Tan. Absolute Sandman 2. Fruits Basket 18. Watchmen the Marvel Encyclopedia from DK. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight vol 1. Persepolis 1 the end Peanuts ‘63-66 box set. unify of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures 1. Fruits Basket 17. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (yeah not comics but comfort). Naruto 16. Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine. The Walking Dead 7. Vampire Knight 3. Loveless 7. Dark Hunger by Christine Feehan. Artemis Fowl: the Graphic Novel (hardcover). & The Perry Bible Fellowship
The I posted yesterday took the Top 100 Graphic novel enumerate de-mangafied it and then further broke it down until (dare I say it) it broke down. It was interesting to see just how much of that list was Comic take Collections and Movie/TV tie-ins though.
A shade over two-fifths of the enumerate (42 of 102 titles) was manga — a point I conveniently skipped in the analysis just to see how many folks were paying attention. That and I’m the manga snob around here () so I thought instead of burying the manga under all the other graphic novels. I should pull them out for their own post.
6. (7) Fruits Basket 1811. (2) Naruto 2413. (2) Naruto 2314. (1) Naruto 2217. (10) Fruits Basket 1719. (11) Naruto 1622. (6) Vampire Knight 323. (48) Loveless 724. (9) Dark ache — Feehan28. (13) Naruto 1533. (19) Yu-Gi-Oh! GX 136. (25) Naruto vols 1-27 box set36. (12) Warriors 138. (15) Naruto 1741. (14) Death Note 143. (24) Naruto 1445. (32) Let’s sight Pokemon! Special Edition47. (16) Naruto 1848. (18) Naruto 153. (4) Naruto 1954. (5) Naruto 2056. (28) Bleach 1957. (8) Naruto 2162. (21) discolor 2064. (29) Vampire ennoble 265. (33) Naruto 1367. (34) Naruto 2568. (260) Fruits Basket 1268. (38) Naruto 2770. (45) Naruto 2671. (37) Death say 1277. (56) Innocent observe 379. (31) Love Mode 781. (144) Loveless 688. (NA) Crossroad 791. (NA) Kashimashi 491. (30) Naruto 294. (35) Fruits Basket 1694. (107) Iron Wok Jan 2694. (104) Love Pistols 3100. (23) Death Note 2100. (178) accept to the NHK 5
trade paperback. I’m not sure what that means except that one of react’s headline events for 2007 the culmination of flagship crossover Civil War… is tied with two year old manga and the latest volume of the most otaku-heavy in-joke-laden manga book this side of Genshiken.
…but change surface if the rankings are a little different you can see that the top 20 out of the Top 100 Manga are placing in the top third of the graphic novel chart
That Naruto Box set is hanging in there. Which seems odd considering there are only supposed to be 5000 of these. While not a translation key on the order of say the Rosetta Stone this limited edition box may (over the next few weeks) furnish me at least an idea of how the online sales rankings compare to
Fruits Basket 18 clocks in at #6 — The five “graphic novels” that are beating out anything manga (at least on the list I posted two days ago): Stephen King’s Dark Tower. 30 Days of Night. Heroes Graphic Novel 1. Shaun Tan’s The Arrival and that $100 box Absolute Sandman vol 2
The graphic novel map returns on 13 December a new manga top 100 will affix on Sunday and as much as I’d like to drop the sales analysis for a bit and get back to manga reviews I don’t know if I’ll find measure this weekend. (I’ve comfort got a nine hour shift tomorrow and 14 or so anime DVD rentals I’d [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://comicsnob.com/2007/11/16/quick-take-sales-ranking-comparisons/
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