Top manga for July (direct market)

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

The July direct market sales numbers are out, reflecting Diamond’s sales to comics stores. ICv2 reports that sales of graphic novels were flat in July, but they’re not too worried about a single month.

Manga did relatively well in their graphic novel chart, with recent volumes of Kingdom Hearts, Hellsing, and Naruto making it into the top ten.

Here’s the manga list, with the ranking on the overall graphic novels chart in parentheses and the quantity sold following the title.

1. (4) Kingdom Hearts II, vol. 1 (4,817)
2. (9) Hellsing, vol. 8 (4,072)
3. (10) Naruto, vol. 15 (3,837)
4. (11) Berserk, vol. 18 (3,804)
5. (19) Megatokyo, vol. 5 (3,226)
6. (30) Gon, vol. 1 (2,748)
7. (51) xxxHoLiC, vol. 9 (2,086)
8. (61) Gunsmith Cats Burst, vol. 2 (1,885)
9. (68) My Hime, vol. 3 (1,542)
10. (69) Trinity Blood, vol. 3 (1,533)
11. (70) Samurai Deeper Kyo, vol. 23 (1,516)
12. (87) He Is My Master, vol. 1 (1,257)
13. (92) Rozen Maiden, vol. 5 (1,156)
14. (96) Rose Hip Zero, vol. 3 (1,114)
15. (97) Kashimashi, vol. 3 (1,106)
16. (100) Don’t Say Anymore Darling (1,072)

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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