Here are the top ten selling manga in the United States for the week of June 2-8, 2013, according to the New York Times.
1. Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Volume 3
2. Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 1
3. One Piece Volume 67
4. Pokémon Black and White Volume 10
5. Skip Beat! Volume 31
6. Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liar’s Game Volume 2
7. Pokémon Adventures: Diamond and Pearl/Platinum Volume 8
8. Naruto Volume 61
9. Soul Eater Volume 14
10. Sailor Moon Volume 11
Article first published as Manga Review: Sailor Moon – Volume 11 by Naoko Takeuchi on Blogcritics.
A new story arc begins in Volume 11, and Mamoru is heading off to America to study at Harvard. When Usagi goes to see Mamoru off, he gives her a ring. After she’s given the ring, something strange happens to Mamoru and Usagi passes out. She’s rescued by three people who have not appeared previously in the series. Around this same time, Chibi-usa returns to the 30th century
Shortly after, a boy band called Three Lights hits it big, and the three members transfer into Usagi’s high school. As the volume progresses, it’s revealed there’s more to Three Lights than meets the eye. Chibi-Chibi-Chan also enters the storyline; she looks an awful lot like she should be related to Usagi somehow, but the child doesn’t give any information about who she is or where she comes from.
The new villain introduced in this arc is Sailor Galaxia. She is wanting to acquire all of the Sailor Crystals, and it appears she is ultimately after Sailor Moon for her Silver Moon Crystal.
With this volume, Takeuchi has drastically expanded the concept of the Sailor Guardians and now there are a lot more of them that come from all over the Milky Way. To be honest, by the time I finished the volume, I found myself feeling rather overwhelmed and a bit confused by just how quickly Takeuchi expanded the Sailor Moon universe.
One of the biggest questions in this volume is who exactly Chibi-Chibi-Chan is; however, by the end of the volume, the reader is still no closer to understanding who she is at the end of the volume than they were when she was first introduced into the story. There’s only one more volume of the Sailor Moon series left, so I suspect more information about Chibi-Chibi-Chan will be revealed during the final volume.
While I have thought that the plots in some of the earlier volumes were strange, I think this story arc wins the prize for being the strangest of them all. Volume 11 spends a lot of time building up the storyline, introducing a whole bunch of new characters, and expanding on the already established universe; combining all of these elements makes this particular volume a bit of dense read. With only one volume left, I’m afraid Takeuchi ended up rushing through this storyline in order to conclude it.
There’s a preview of Volume 12 at the back of the book that’s in English. It’s definitely from the first five pages of the next volume, and it picks up exactly where Volume 11 ends.
After reading Volume 11, it seems like it would probably appeal more to the die-hard Sailor Moon fans than to more casual readers like myself. It’s not that it’s a bad read, but I think a more casual reader is more likely to be left confused by this storyline than anything else, and may not feel as invested to go on to Volume 12 in order to find out what happens.
I wrote this review after reading a copy of Sailor Moon Volume 11 that I checked out through the King County Library System.
Naruto Volume 61
Other manga titles that appeared in the top 20 for May 2013 are:
by Naoko Takeuchi (#4)
by Kanoko Sakurakouji (#9)
by Naoko Takeuchi (#10)
by Yana Toboso (#12)
by Nozomu Tamakiana (#14)
by Masashi Kishimoto (#17)
by Masashi Kishimoto (#18)The BookScan rankings include sales from Barnes & Noble and other book chains, independent bookshops, and online purchases; however, sales at comic book stores, Walmart and some other venues are not included.
Here are the top ten selling manga in the United States for the week of May 26-June 1, 2013, according to the New York Times.
1. Sailor Moon Volume 11
2. Naruto Volume 61
3. Durarara!! Saika Arc Volume 2
4. Attack on Titan Volume 1
5. Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liar’s Game Volume 2
6. Cage of Eden Volume 10
7. Black Bird Volume 16
8. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Volume 4
9. Blood Lad Volume 3
10. Black Butler Volume 13
Here are the top ten selling manga titles in the United States for the week of May 19-25, 2013, according to the New York Times.
1. Sailor Moon Volume 11
2. Naruto Volume 61
3. Sunny Volume 1
4. Negima! Magister Negi Magi Volume 38
5. Black Bird Volume 16
6. Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liar’s Game Volume 2
7. Black Butler Volume 13
8. Doubt Volume 1
9. Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit Volume 2
10. Blood Lad Volume 2
Here are the top ten selling manga in the United States for the week of May 12-18, 2013, according to the New York Times.
by Masashi Kishimoto by Nozomu Tamaki
by Kyousuke Motomi by Kanoko Sakurakoji
by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata by Ken Akamatsu by Yoshiki Tonogai by Yana Toboso by Naoko Takeuchi by Owl Shinotsuki and Delico PsycheHere are the new manga releases for May 21, 2013. If you see any errors or omissions in this list, please feel free to contact me and let me know.
Alice in the Country of Joker: Circus and Liar’s Game GN 2
Cage of Eden GN 10
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex GN 4
The Limit GN 5
Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus GN 1
The Sacred Blacksmith GN 1
Sailor Moon GN 11
Saturn Apartments GN 7
Sunny GN 1
Wandering Son GN 4
Here are the top ten selling manga in the United States for the week of April 28-May 4, 2013, according to the New York Times.
1. Negima! Magister Negi Magi 38
2. Fairy Tail Volume 25
3. Black Butler Volume 13
4. Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit Volume 2
5. Doubt Volume 1
6. Tiger & Bunny Volume 1
7. Naruto Volume 60
8. Dawn of the Arcana Volume 9
9. Is This a Zombie? Volume 4
10. Sailor Moon Volume 10
Here are the top ten selling manga in the United States for the week of April 21-27, 2013, according to the New York Times.
1. Black Butler Volume 13
2. Spice and Wolf Volume 8 by Isuna Hasekura
3. Negima! Magister Negi Magi Volume 38
4. Sailor Moon Volume 10
5. Bleach Volume 56
6. Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit Volume 2
7. A Certain Scientific Railgun Volume 7
8. Pandora Hearts Volume 15
9. Dawn of the Arcana Volume 9
10. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Volume 4
Sailor Moon Volume 10
Three other manga titles charted in Nielsen BookScan’s Top 20 for April 2013:
by Masashi Kishimoto (#7)
by Kazue Kato (#11) by Tite Kubo (#18)Nielsen BookScan’s rankings includes sales at Barnes & Noble and other book chains, independent bookshops, and online purchases; however, sales at comic book stories, Walmart, and some other venues are not included.
