Volume Covers for Naruto 60, Bakuman 18, One Piece 66m Tegami Bachi 14, Nisekoi 1, Gate 7 3

Not much news really, but I thought I'd throw in an Oricon best seller analysis and the image above which shows the latest covers of volumes for manga running in Shonen Jump. First off a few bits of news:

1. The josei manga Karneval has been confirmed for an anime adaptation.

2. Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai +, the manga adaptation of the light novel has finished it's run in SQ.19 #1

3. One Piece Z is the title of the next movie project, for which Oda-sensei will do the character design of the main antagonist. Here's the teaser:

Oricon Analysis

So here's the rankings from the Oricon Charts:

01. Fairy Tail #32 (297,314)
02. Gin no Saji #3 (293,359)
03. Jojolion #2 (204,791)
04. Meitantei Conan #75 (145,430 / 349,028)
05. Hajime no Ippo #99 (129,755)
06. Aoharide #4 (116,574 / 243,053)
07. Magi #12 (101,419)
08. Shingeki no Kyojin #7 (94,112 / 480,356)
09. Gin no Saji Limited Edition #3 (84,218)
10. Jormungand #11 (70,593)
11. Hunter Hunter #30 (60,943 / 856,868)
12. L DK #9 (53,089 / 105,569)
13. Baby Steps #21 (48,604)
14. Again!!#4 (47,460)
15. Ao no Exorcist #8 (45,502 / 687,591)
16. Code:Breaker #18 (44,645)
17. Oresama Teacher #13 (43,885)
18. Gin no Saji #1 (39,847 / 548,041)
19. Koutetsu no Hanappashira #6 (36,863)
20. Gin no Saji #2 (36,692 / 517,358)
21. Shin Kamen Rider Spirits #6 (36,169)
22. Principle #4 (34,764 / 67,608)
23. D.Gray-man #23 (34,669 / 424,007)
24. Liselotto to Majo no Mori #1 (32,973)
25. 87 Clockers #1 (30,669 / 92,391)
26. Toriko #19 (30,599 / 345,942)
27. Liselotto to Majo no Mori #2 (30,364)
28. Gintama #44 (29,009 / 373,549)
29. Samurai Soldier #17 (28,888)
30. Samurai Soldier #18 (28,617)

[Source: One Manga, Oricon]

-Nice to see Gin no Saji (Silver Spoon) racking up the re-prints and managing to sell close to 400,000 for it's 3rd volume (combined with limited edition), with figures like this we can probably expect an anime of the series to be announced any day now.

-Again!! is another new manga with an impressive sales figure for a new series, it's possible that the series will become one of the headliners for Shonen Magazine since a lot of the current popular series are ending.

-Jormungand's final volume opened strong, a little help from the anime can be expected to explain the strong sales and if you look on Amazon.jp you can see the earlier volumes are being requested with quite a bit of popularity.

-87 Clockers racked up impressive sales for a first volume; we can attribute this to the fact that the author of the series was also responsible for Nodame Cantible, one of the most popular Josei manga to have run in the past few years.

-Nothing else out of the ordinary for the other Kondansha Shonen's with Fairy Tail opening strong and Code: Breaker, Baby Steps, Hajime no Ippo selling like they usually do with the outlier being Shingeki no Kyojin which has hung around for quite a while on the best seller list with sales rivaling those of the Jump shonen's.

-Finally, a hiatus doesn't seem to slow down Hunter x Hunter selling like crazy.