Oricon is out as usual but first a few pieces of news:

1. Air Gear ended it's run in Issue #25 of Magazine last week, giving it a total of 357 chapters.

2. Kodansha's monthly shojo magazine Dessert announced 2 anime adaptations of their manga:

  • Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (The Monster Seated Next to you), by Robiko will be adapted by Brains Base
  • Suki-tte Ii na yo (Say "I love you"), by Kanae Hazuki will be adapted by Zexcs

Both of these anime are slated for the Fall 2012 season.

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Here's the Oricon sales figures for May 14-20

1. Kimi ni Todoke #16 - 315,709 (788,873)

2. Mahou Sensei Negima! #38 - 149,907

3. One Piece #66 - 131,725 (2,821,277)

4. Otoyome-Gatari #4 - 120,558 (207,690)

5. Daiya no A #31 - 114,108

6. Hayate no Gotoku #32 + 0 - 113,198

7. Gantz #34 - 82,538 (237,239)

8. Kingdom #26 - 72,234

9. Capeta #28 - 60,842

10. Naruto #60 - 53,294 (1,045,584)

11. Bloody Monday Last Season #4 - 44,857

12. Zetsuen no Tempest #6 - 39,723 (61,158)

13. Eden no Ori #17 - 37,788

14. Rozen Maiden #7 - 37,196

15. Sayonara Zettsubo-sensei #29 - 36,113

16. Worst #29 - 35,973 (202,772)

17. Hayate no Gotoku #32 - 35,716

18. Ane no Kekkon #3 - 34,826 (108,418)

19. Shaman King Zero #1 - 32,271 (104,123)

20. God Hand Teru #62 - 31,829

21. Bakuman #18 - 30,457 (455,203)

22. AKB49 #8 - 30,044

23. Q and A #6 - 29,745 (58,938)

24. Moonlight Act #18 - 29,523

25. Tobaku Haouden Rei: Gyankihen #18 - 28,721

26. AKB49 #8 Limted Edition - 28,691

27. Zettai Karen Children #30 - 27,924

28. Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso #3 - 27,583

29. Zettai Karen Children #30 Limited Edition - 26,424

30. RIN-NE #12 - 25,584

[Source: Oricon, ANN]

A few things to take note of:

-Kimi ni Todoke has now held the top spot for a second week

-One Piece has spent 3 weeks in the top 3 (last week it was 2nd, the week before 1st)

-It took Naruto 3 week to sell over 1 million

-Zetsuen no Tempest was in 34th place last week, before shooting up to 12th

-Otoyome-Gatari moved up 3 places into 4th