{"id":16256,"date":"2009-06-10T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=16256"},"modified":"2009-06-10T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T20:00:56","slug":"domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Manga Sales Down in Winter 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008-326x450.jpg\" alt=\"Domestic Manga Sales Down in Winter 2008\" title=\"Domestic Manga Sales Down in Winter 2008\" width=\"326\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008-326x450.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/domestic-manga-sales-down-in-winter-2008.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ICv2 has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/15117.html\" target=\"_blank\">determined<\/a> that despite American graphic novel sales growing by 5% in fourth quarter 2008, domestic manga sales dropped by 17%, down to 2005 sales levels.<\/p>\n<p>ICv2 also reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/15120.html\" target=\"_blank\">top 25<\/a> most popular &#8220;manga&#8221; titles in America during first quarter 2009, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/15121.html\" target=\"_blank\">top 10 shounen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/news\/15122.html\" target=\"_blank\">top 10 shoujo manga<\/a> titles of the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, Naruto tops the charts of shounen manga and all manga sales in America. A bit more surprising is the fact that Fruits Basket is America&#8217;s most popular shoujo manga even after five years of domestic availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICv2 has determined that despite American graphic novel sales growing by 5% in fourth quarter 2008, domestic manga sales dropped by 17%, down to 2005 sales levels. ICv2 also reports the top 25 most popular &#8220;manga&#8221; titles in America during first quarter 2009, and the top 10 shounen and top 10 shoujo manga titles of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16280,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16256\/revisions\/16280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}