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Every week, the New York Times and Amazon posts the top ten bestselling books. The New York Times gets their numbers from print sales from retailers, while Amazon and Vizmanga.com calculates their own numbers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week Ending February 14, 2015 Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 14     ∗ Assassination Classroom Vol 2     ↓ 1 Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↑ 3 Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↑ 6 Sword Art Online: Progressive Vol 1     ↑ 2 Dragonar Academy Vol 5     ∗ Say I Love You Vol 6     ∗ Akame ga Kill Vol 1     ↓ 5 Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liars Game Vol 7     ∗ Black Butler Vol 19     ↓ 1 The final Neon Genesis Evangelion, a series over a decade old, takes the list, debuting in the top spot, forcing Assassination Classroom Vol 2 down one to #2. Attack on Titan Vol 1 makes an aggressive move back up the list to reach the top five. Seven Seas…

Every week, the New York Times and Amazon posts the top ten bestselling books. The New York Times gets their numbers from print sales from retailers, while Amazon and Vizmanga.com calculates their own numbers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending February 7, 2015 Assassination Classroom Vol 2     ∗ Food Wars Vol 4     ∗ Akame ga Kill Vol 1     ↓ 2 Noragami Vol 3     ↑ 2 Soul Eater Vol 24     ↓ 3 Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↑ 1 Sword Art Online: Progressive Vol 1     ↓ 2 Fairy Tail Vol 46     ↓ 4 Black Butler Vol 19     ↓ 6 Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↵ 84 Viz Media’s shonen releases have an impact of the list as the new series Assassination Classroom Vol 2 takes the top spot and is followed by the print version of Food Wars! Vol 4. Proving you can’t keep a Titan down, Attack on Titan vol 1 returns  again as it yo-yos on and off the list. Yen Press…

Every week, the New York Times and Amazon posts the top ten bestselling books. The New York Times gets their numbers from print sales from retailers, while Amazon calculates their own numbers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity. This week will also include the return of Vizmanga.com and the Nielson Bookscan for January.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending January 31, 2015 Akame ga Kill! Vol 1     ↔ Soul Eater Vol 24     ∗ Black Butler Vol 19     ↓ 1 Fairy Tail Vol 46     ∗ Sword Art Online Progressive Vol 1     ↔ Noragami Vol 3     ∗ Unofficial Hatsune Remix     ↑ 3 Assassination Classroom Vol 1     ↵ 7 Deadman Wonderland Vol 2     ↵ 3 The Seven Deadly Sins Vol 6     ↵ 2 Yen Press does well this week as it holds four of the top five spots, including Akame ga Kill! Vol 1 keeping the top spot for the second week. A lot of titles returned as well, with Viz getting two titles to chart in Assassination Classroom Vol…

Every week, the New York Times and Amazon posts the top ten bestselling books. The New York Times gets their numbers from print sales from retailers, while Amazon calculates their own numbers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   New York Times Bestseller List for January 24, 2015 Akame ga Kill! Vol 1     ∗ Black Butler Vol 19     ∗ Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↑ 1 Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 2     ↓ 1 Sword Art Online: Progressive Vol 1     ∗ Black Butler Vol 1     ↵ 43 Sword Art Online: Aincrad     ↵ 11 Noragami Vol 1     ↵ 8 Assassination Classroom Vol 1     ↔ Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↓ 10 Yen Press’ monthly deluge leaves its mark on the list this week. The first volume of new series Akame ga Kill! debuts at the top, and is followed by the newest Black Butler as well as a return of the first volume of Black Butler in the sixth spot. At 43 weeks on the list, it used to be the longest until Attack…

Every week, the New York Times and Amazon posts the top ten bestselling books. The New York Times gets their numbers from print sales from retailers, while Amazon calculates their own numbers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending January 10, 2015 Sword Art Online Fairy Dance Vol 2     ↑ 5 Master Keaton Vol 1     ↑ 8 Kingdom Hearts II Vol 3     ↵ 3 Deadman Wonderland Vol 6     ↑ 1 Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↓ 4 Fairy Tail Vol 45     ∗ Naruto Vol 68     ↓ 3 Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 2     ↓ 5 He’s My Only Vampire Vol 1     ↔ Noragami Vol 1     ↓ 3 What is the world coming to? This is the second week in a row that Attack on Titan Vol 1 has not been on the list! But even without vol 1, Attack on Titan does keep the record of longest on the list with No Regrets holding at 10 weeks. Sword Art Online Fairy Dance vol…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga for the week of December 30, 2014 Vizmanga didn’t send out a top ten for the fifth week. I will no longer be including them on the list until they begin posting them regularly again.   New York Times Bestseller List for January 3, 2015 Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↑ 5 Assassination Classroom Vol 1     ↑ 3 Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 2     ↵ 9 Naruto Vol 68     ↔ Deadman Wonderland Vol 6     ∗ Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance Vol 2     ↓ 6 Noragami Vol 1     ↵ 6 Citrus Vol 1     ∗ He’s My Only Vampire Vol 1    ↓ 1 Master Keaton Vol 1     ∗ This is one very surprising list! There is a new top title, and it’s Dark Horse’s vocaloid manga about Hatsune…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga for the week of December 23, 2014 Vizmanga didn’t send out a top ten for the fourth week in a row.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending December 27, 2014 Kingdom Hearts II Vol 3     ↑ 9 Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↓ 1 Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance Vol 2     ↑ 1 Naruto Vol 68     ↓ 2 Assassination Classroom Vol 1     ↓ 2 Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↓ 1 Attack on Titan Vol 2     ↔ He’s My Only Vampire Vol 1     ∗ Spice and Wolf Vol 10     ∗ Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 1     ↓ 4 Pre and post-Christmas sales and the list doesn’t change too much this week. Kingdom Hearts II Vol 3 makes a huge leap from #10…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga.com for the week of December 16, 2014 Vizmanga didn’t send out a top ten for the third week in a row.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending December 20, 2014 Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↑ 1 Naruto Vol 68     ↓ 1 Assassination Classroom Vol 1     ↑ 4 Sword Art Online Fairy Dance Vol 2     ∗ Unofficial Hatsune Mix     ↵ 2 Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 1     ↵ 16 Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 2     ↑ 2 Attack on Titan Vol 2     ↵ 42 Spice and Wolf Vol 10     ∗ Kingdom Hearts II Vol 3     ∗ Christmas can make a top ten list seem quite fickle. Some of the returnees from last week have already moved on, and were…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga.com for the week of December 9, 2014 Vizmanga didn’t send out a top ten for the second week in a row.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending December 13, 2014 Naruto Vol 68     ↔ Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↔ Black Butler Vol 1     ↑ 2 Attack on Titan Before the Fall Vol 3     ∗ Food Wars Vol 3     ↑ 1 No Game No Life Vol 1     ↵ 5 Assassination Classroom Vol 1     ∗ Attack on Titan Vol 14     ↔ Attack on Titan No Regrets Vol 2     ↔ Millennium Snow Vol 4     ↓ 6 There was not a lot of movement on the list this week.  Four titles, including the top two remained in the same spots. Seven Seas lost their…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga.com for the week of December 2, 2014 Vizmanga didn’t send out a top ten for the week.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending December 6, 2014 Naruto Vol 68     ∗ Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↑ 3 Monster Musume Vol 5     ↓ 2 Millenium Snow Vol 4     ∗ Black Butler Vol 1     ↵ 41 Food Wars Vol 3     ∗ Naruto Vol 67      ↑ 3 Attack on Titan Vol 14     ↓ 5 Attack on Titan: No Regrets Vol 2     ↔ Noragami Vol 1     ↵ 5 Viz Media has all the debuting titles this week, including the new top title. Naruto vol 68 pushes the monster girls from Monster Musume off their perch. It joins the previous Naruto, vol 67 to be the…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga for the week of  November 25, 2014 Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol 14     ∗ Food Wars! Vol 4     ↓ 1 Future Diary Vol 8     ∗ Bleach Vol 62     ↑ 2 Kyo Kara MAOH! Vol 3     ∗ Nisekoi Vol 9     ∗ Trinity Blood Vol 10     ∗ Naruto Vol 67     ↓ 3 Naruto Vol 1     ↓ 5 One-Punch Man Vol 5     ↓ 8 Another debut title takes the top spot this week. Neon Genesis Evangelion finally finishes its decade and a half run to end at volume 14. Food Wars gets pushed back on spot, while Select title Future Diary‘s volume 8 debuts at #3. Other Select titles Kyo Kara MAOH! and Trinity Blood debut as well. One-Punch Man takes the deepest dive, falling 8 spots to land…

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga for the week of November 18, 2014 Food Wars Vol 4     ∗ One-Punch Man Vol 5     ∗ Naruto Vol 2     ↑ 2 Naruto Vol 1     ↔ Naruto Vol 67     ↓ 2 Bleach Vol 62     ↓ 5 Blue Exorcist Vol 12     ↓ 1 Mad Love Chase Vol 2     ∗ Zone-00 Vol 1     ∗ Dengeki Daisy Vol 15     ↵ Bleach Vol 62 gets kicked from the top spot by digital first debut Food Wars Vol 4. One-Punch Man Vol 5‘s debut takes the second spot, while the Narutos switch around a few spots but still take the rest of the top five. Two new Viz Selects debut this week as well. Zone-00 is another Tokyopop license rescue, that only got 4 volumes here, while Mad Love Chase‘s…