Manga Xanadu

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. Once a month the Nielsen Bookscan posts their top twenty graphic novels of which manga is included. 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 April 11, 2015. One Piece Vol 74     ∗ Big Hero Six Vol 1     ↔ Attack on Titan Vol 15     ↓ 2 Fairy Tail Vol 47     ↑ 2 Soul Eater Vol 25     ↓ 2 Food Wars! Vol 5     ∗ Assassination Classroom Vol 3     ∗ Attack on Titan Before The Fall Vol 4     ↓ 4 Attack on Titan Vol 1     ↓ 4 Sword Art Online Fairy Dance Vol 3     ↓ 1 The mighty titans are unseated by a bunch of pirates! One Piece Vol 74 debuts in the top spot this week. Big Hero Six Vol 1 keeps itself at #2 for its third week. While…

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.com didn’t post at top ten this week, so no activity from them. However, I did discover I missed a month of the Nielson Book Scan Top 20 for July, so I will include it as well as August.   New York Times Bestseller List for the week ending September 6, 2014. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Vol. 6     ∗ One Piece Vol. 72     ∗ Attack on Titan Vol. 13      ↓ 2 Nisekoi! False Love Vol. 5     ∗ Pokemon Adventures Vol. 24     ∗ Time Killers: Kazue Kato Short Story Collection     ∗ Monster Musume Vol. 4     ↓ 4 Skip Beat Vol. 33     ∗ Attack on Titan Vol. 1     ↓ 4 High School DxD Vol. 2     ↓ 6 Viz Media, which had been purged from the list last…