Rurouni Kenshin Manga Tops Sales Charts

Viz, LLC has announced that its Rurouni Kenshin volume 3 graphic novel has sold over 8,500 copies since its January 24, 2004 release, and become the top selling comic/graphic novel in the country for two straight weeks. Even more significantly, the graphic novel has placed within Nielsen BookScan’s list of top 100 current best selling adult fiction titles, meaning that a translated Japanese manga is one of the 100 best selling fiction books in America right now.