This week's edition of the New York Times Graphic Books list demonstrates a show of strength from the shonen manga side of the spectrum, as 8 out of the 10 titles are geared primarily for male readers, with many Shonen Jump titles making up this week's debuts.
The latest volumes of perennial chart-toppers Bleach, One Piece, and Yu-Gi-Oh R claimed their spots in this week's top 10, and the Death Note light novel, L: Change the World continues to generate strong sales. Also new this week is the latest volume of D.N. Angel from TokyoPop, a title that recently returned to their regular publishing line-up after a few years on hiatus. Surprisingly, last week's no. 1 chart-topper Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path is nowhere to be seen in this week's edition of the manga Top 10 list.
Here's the rest of the New York Times Graphic Books Manga Top 10 for the week ending December 5, 2009.
| This Week |
Last Week |
Weeks on List |
Title | Author/Artist | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEW | 1 wk | Bleach Volume 29 | Tite Kubo | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 2 | 2 ↔ | 5 wks | Vampire Knight Volume 8 | Matsuri Hino | Shojo Beat / VIZ Media |
| 3 | 7 ↑ | 5 wks | Rosario + Vampire Volume 10 | Akihisa Ikeda | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 4 | 4 ↔ | 2 wks | Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 21 | Hiromu Arakawa | VIZ Media |
| 5 | 3 ↓ | 10 wks | Naruto Volume 46 | Masashi Kishimoto | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 6 | 5 ↓ | 6 wk | Maximum Ride Volume 2 | James Patterson and NaRae Lee | Yen Press |
| 7 | NEW | 1 wk | One Piece Volume 23 | Eiichiro Oda | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 8 | NEW | 1 wk | Yu-Gi-Oh! R Volume 2 | Akira Ito and Kazuki Takahashi | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 9 | NEW | 1 wk | D.N. Angel Volume 13 | Yukiru Sugisaki | TokyoPop |
| 10 | 8 ↓ | 4 wk | Death Note: L Change the World | M, Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata | VIZ Media |
NOTE: "RET" means that a title has returned to the Top 10 after an absence of a week or more. Weeks on the chart are counted as weeks on the Top 10.
Image credit: © 2001 by Tite Kubo/SHUEISHA Inc.
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