Sailor Moon manga soared again in US Bookstores on April

Blue Exorcist manga is also on the rise!

The tenth volume of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon manga ranked at #4 on Nielsen BookScan's list of top 20 graphic novels in American bookstores for April.

The same volume had ranked at #5 on the list in March. The Sailor Moon volume is one of four manga titles on the list. Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto volume 60 ranked at #7, dropping from #3 from last month.

Kazue Katō's Blue Exorcist volume 9 and Tite Kubo's Bleach volume 56 ranked at #11 and #18 respectively. Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic series continued to dominate the chart, claiming nine places this month, with The Walking Dead Compendium volumes 1 and 2 again taking the top two spots.

Gene Luen Yang's Avatar the Last Airbender: The Search -- Part 1 ranked #3.

 The BookScan rankings represent sales at Barnes & Noble and other book chains, independent bookshops, and online purchases — but not sales at comic book stores, Walmart, and some other venues.

Source: ANN, ICv2

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Tite Kubo announced that he got married

Best of wishes!

It was reported yesterday that author Tite Kubo, best known for his manga series Bleach, got married.

It was announced via a comment he made on the handouts at the Jump Festa 2013 event. He did not mention any details such as when he actually got married, and anything about his wife, as he simply announced, “I got married.”

With this announcement, the fans have been sending words of congratulations to Kubo’s Twitter, and he replied to everyone with “Thank you-!”

Source: TokyoHive, Cinematoday

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Naruto tops August manga sales in US Bookstores

The latest volume (57th) of  Kishimoto's Naruto manga placed #9 in Nielsen BookScan's list of top 20 graphic novels in American bookstores for August.

Whereas Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon volume 6 dropped at #17, and Tite Kubo's Bleach volumes 44 and 45 ranked at #19 and #20, respectively.

The BookScan rankings represent sales at Barnes & Noble and other book chains, independent bookshops, and online purchases — but not sales at comic book stores, Walmart, and some other venues.

Source: ANN, ICv2

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Bleach manga volume 55 has already sold 500 thousand copies in Japan!

The latest volume of Kubo Tite’s Bleach manga (55) made it’s debut on the shelves of Japanese retailers on June 4th, 2012. There is great feedback on the new saga that allegedly will finish the manga. 

By the end of the sales week, June 10th, over 500,000 copies had been sold. That’s more than 18,000 than the number two highest selling manga volume last week.

01 – Bleach Manga Volume 55 – 521,626 copies sold
02 – Bakuman Manga Volume 19 – 332,706
03 – Katekyo Hitman Reborn Manga Volume 39 – 226,893
04 – Beelzebub Manga Volume 16 – 152,893
05 – Claymore Manga Volume 22 – 144,521 

Source: Oricon, SaiyanIsland

Screenwriter Dan Mazeau on Bleach live action movie: we want to avoid the failure of Dragon Ball movie

Dan Mazeau is known as the screenwriter for the Wrath of the Titans movie and is currently working on the live action adaptation of Bleach.

Mazeau explained that both getting the rights and the scriptwriting itself were a long process for Bleach: "But early on we set down with Tite Kubo the creator and the publisher of the series, and we had a long meeting, making sure we're respectful to the property. Nobody wants to, well… Let's just say that if you enjoyed [the live-action] Dragon Ball Z movie, that's great, but I thought it was a noble effort that ultimately didn't succeed. That's what we're trying to avoid. We want to make sure this movie lives up to what the manga is."

He added, "I'm currently working on Bleach and the idea is to set it in Japan and really be respectful to the source material. It's an amazing story. I've been shorthanding it as an 'action-adventure Sixth Sense,' but obviously on a bigger canvas than that. So I'm incredibly excited about that. It's a good one.”