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Shonen Jump Tops in Pre-Orders
posted on by Garry Berryhill
Shonen Jump was the top monthly manga title on the Diamond Comic Distributors top 300, which is a list of the top pre-ordered comics for a given month.
The list, at Comic Book Resources is for titles ordered in December for delivery in February. Viz's manga anthology led the pack at #164, having been ordered in 7.25% the quantity of the month's top selling title. Dragon Ball. There were sixteen manga titles in the top 300.
In Diamond's top 50 graphic novels for the same period there were fifteen manga titles, a far cry from the figures from more mainstream bookstores Tokyopop had no fewer than twelve titles in the top fifty.
In Diamond's top 50 graphic novels for the same period there were fifteen manga titles, a far cry from the figures from more mainstream bookstores Tokyopop had no fewer than twelve titles in the top fifty.