Direct Market Manga Sales Statistics for January Revealed

While manga sales overwhelmingly dominate graphic novel sales in mainstream American bookstores, their popularity in the American comic book retail market is significantly lower. ICv2 News has published the list of estimated best selling graphic novels to comic book and specialty retailers for January 2005. The Samurai Executioner volume 3 translated manga was the best selling book of the month. Ghost in the Shell 2 and Berserk volume 6 were the only other manga titles in the top 10.