Top US Manga for Q1 2009: nebs66

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Top US Manga for Q1 2009

Jun 14, 2009 23:19

ICv2 has once again published their lists for the top selling graphic novel titles for the first quarter of the year. In addition, they also revealed that sales of traditional graphic novels in 2008 grew by 5% to $395 million, up from $375 million in 2007. The top selling manga titles from the end of last year keep up their streak for the most part in 2009. The top 5 selling titles for Winter 2009 aren't surprising at all. For that matter, but of the top 10 are pretty predictable. Here is a complete list of the top 25 manga:

Top 25 Manga Properties Q1 2009:

Naruto
Fruits Basket
Vampire Knight
Bleach
Death Note
Rosario & Vampire
Chibi Vampire (Karin)
Maxiumum Ride
Tsubasa
Bakugan
Negima!
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Otomen
Shugo Chara
D. Grayman
Skip Beat
One Piece
Gentlemen's Alliance
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Captive Hearts
In Odd We Trust
Nora: Last Chronicle of Devildom
Black Cat
Phoenix Wright
Higurashi: When They Cry

Nice to see Phoenix Wright, Haruhi, & Shugo Chara on the list. Yu-Gi-Oh is also still doing surprisingly well considering the manga finished some time ago & that the franchise is past its fad stage. ICv2 also had separate lists for more specific categories, such as the top selling shonen & shojo titles:

Top 10 Shonen Properties Q1 2009:

Naruto
Bleach
Death Note
Rosario & Vampire
Chibi Vampire (Karin)
Tsubasa
Negima
D. Grayman
One Piece
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

Top 10 Shojo Properties Q1 2009:

Fruits Basket
Vampire Knight
Otomen
Shugo Chara
Skip Beat
Gentlemen's Alliance
Captive Hearts
Ouran High School
Heaven's Will
Trinity Blood

For the top selling shonen properties, it should be noted that some of them have very strong female readerships. Most notably RosaVam, Karin, & Tsubasa might even have their female American readers eclipse their male ones. I'm also surprised that they'd consider Haruhi to be a shonen title. While true that the story often caters to male fans, Yen Press has been pushing Haruhi hard to get a strong teen female following as well. & as for the shojo titles... Trinity Blood?

Finally, one manga title also found its way onto the Top 10 Kids & Tweens graphic novel list. Bakugan was the only true Japanese title on the list, but it made it all the way up to #2. The only title to beat it there was the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Source: http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/15117.html

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