Comments on: Magazine Data for 2008

By: Zepy

Zepy — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:14:22 +0000

As a comparison, they print 2.79 million copies of Jump per week, while they print in the vicinity of 1.3 million copies per tankoubon for recent volumes of Bleach, 2.44 million for One Piece, 1.5 million for Naruto, 1.52 million for Hunter x Hunter, and 0.51 million for Eyeshield.

Buying mags are pretty good to help readers find manga that suit their tastes, because most of these mags are very focused on certain target markets and generally carry manga that would suit the kind of readers that like stuff in their magazine.

For example, Shounen Jump’s main target readership is males between 10-17, and there’s a good chance that many of these guys won’t like anything that’s published in Morning, and chances are that older guys would have much to complain about some Jump comics.

By: Insert_name

Insert_name — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:46:41 +0000

One thing I’m curious about are the numbers of people who buy the mags to get their weekly fix of their favorite manga versus those who wait for tankouban releases. There’s also the folks who wait to get into manga until a decent number of volumes have been released. It’d be interesting to see how those compare, since those options are cheaper (and look nicer!) than buying the mags each week/month.

By: Yoneda

Yoneda — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:35:52 +0000

Now where is LO on that list?

By: Trevor_NT

Trevor_NT — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:16:57 +0000

Oh, and that Shonen Jump cover is a riot, never mind sending entire pages of HxH with only speech balloons or first draft roughs on them, now he doesn´t even bother inking his illustrations. :P

By: Trevor_NT

Trevor_NT — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:11:01 +0000

Shonen Ace A, 90.000? I just checked Makonako, but still, it sounds way too low.

And it´s startling how stable these numbers are compared to last year, but that´s Japan for you, I guess.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:34:24 +0000

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