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Japanese Comic Ranking, November 30-December 6 (Updated)
posted on by Egan Loo
Update: Shueisha published 2.85 million copies of the 56th volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece pirate manga — the largest print run that any Japanese manga has ever had in its first printing. So far, 1,363,868 copies have sold in the first week, and that is before the 10th One Piece theatrical anime film, One Piece Film Strong World, will open in Japan on December 12.
Meanwhile, Square Enix will ship the 24th volume of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist on December 22. With that volume, Square Enix will have printed a total of over 40 million Fullmetal Alchemist manga book volumes — the first Square Enix manga to reach that threshold. Fullmetal Alchemist is one of only five manga titles to sell over 1 million copies of one volume in 2009. (The other four titles are One Piece, Naruto, Nana, and Nodame Cantabile.)
| Rank | Prev. Rank | Title | Author | Weekly Copies | Total Copies | Publisher | Price | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | One Piece #56 | Eiichiro Oda | 1,363,868 | 1,363,868 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 2 | - | Bleach #42 | Tite Kubo | 475,911 | 475,911 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 3 | 1 | Nodame Cantabile #23 | Tomoko Ninomiya | 320,873 | 790,217 | Kodansha | Y440 |  |
| 4 | - | Katekyo Hitman Reborn! #27 | Akira Amano | 253,866 | 253,866 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 5 | - | D. Gray-man #19 | Katsura Hoshino | 244,049 | 244,049 | Shueisha | Y460 |  |
| 6 | 4 | Kuroshitsuji #8 | Yana Toboso | 189,800 | 440,538 | Square Enix | Y590 |  |
| 7 | 3 | Yotsuba&! #9 | Kiyohiko Azuma | 143,721 | 408,181 | ASCII MediaWorks/ Kadokawa Group Publishing | Y630 |  |
| 8 | - | Nurarihyon no Mago #8 | Hiroshi Shiibashi | 109,637 | 109,637 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 9 | - | Toriko #7 | Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro | 102,567 | 102,567 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 10 | 2 | Real #9 | Takehiko Inoue | 101,010 | 422,035 | Shueisha | Y630 |  |
| 11 | - | Vampire Knight #11 | Matsuri Hino | 89,897 | 89,897 | Hakusensha | Y420 |  |
| 12 | - | Kure-nai #4 | Original Creator: Kentarō Katayama Art: Yamato Yamamoto | 59,227 | 59,227 | Shueisha | Y460 |  |
| 13 | 8 | Pandora Hearts #10 | Jun Mochizuki | 55,148 | 139,667 | Square Enix | Y590 |  |
| 14 | - | Anedoki— #1 | Mizuki Kawashita | Shueisha | Y420 | 54,618 | 54,618 |  |
| 15 | - | Medaka Box #2 | Original Story: NisiOisin Art: Akira Akatsuki | Shueisha | Y420 | 54,194 | 54,194 |  |
| 16 | - | Naruto Hiden • Kai no Sho Official Premium Fan Book | Masashi Kishimoto | 53,744 | 53,744 | Shueisha | Y690 |  |
| 17 | - | Shinya Shokudō #5 | Yarō Abe | 48,347 | 49,069 | Shogakukan | Y780 |  |
| 18 | 5 |
Detective Conan (Case Closed) #66 | Gosho Aoyama | 44,953 | 488,419 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 19 | - | Birdy the Mighty Evolution #3 | Masami Yuuki | 38,600 | 39,158 | Shogakukan | Y540 |  |
| 20 | 11 | Black Bird #9 | Kanoko Sakurakoji | 32,269 | 100,014 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 21 | 6 | Billy Bat #2 | Art: Naoki Urasawa Story Joint Collaboration: Takashi Nagasaki | 31,662 | 225,148 | Shogakukan | Y620 |  |
| 22 | - | Shin Tennis no Ouji-sama (The New Prince of Tennis) Official Character Guide PeaPuri Vol. 2 | Takeshi Konomi | 31,556 | 31,556 | Shueisha | Y500 |  |
| 23 | 14 | Fairy Tail #18 | Hiro Mashima | 29,266 | 303,815 | Kodansha | Y440 |  |
| 24 | 15 | Kaze Hikaru #27 | Taeko Watanabe | 29,086 | 87,151 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
| 25 | 7 | Bamboo Blade #12 | Story: Masahiro Totsuka Art: Aguri Igarashi | 27,901 | 116,470 | Square Enix | Y540 |  |
| 26 | 20 | Naruto #48 | Masashi Kishimoto | 27,759 | 1,066,694 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 27 | - | Higanjima #29 | Kōji Matsumoto | 27,642 | 27,642 | Kodansha | Y580 |  |
| 28 | - | Lord #17 | Story: Buronson Art: Ryoichi Ikegami | 27,466 | 27,757 | Shogakukan | Y550 |  |
| 29 | 9 | Strobe Edge #7 | Io Sakisaka | 27,183 | 109,758 | Shueisha | Y420 |  |
| 30 | 10 | Cross Game #16 | Mitsuru Adachi | 26,708 | 290,258 | Shogakukan | Y420 |  |
Source: Oricon, Tohan, Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
follow-up of 2009 Japanese Comic Ranking, #26-50
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