My Data is Your Data: '08 Summer Manga Rankings
in the raw:
One may download the spreadsheet in convenient OpenOffice format
— you really should switch — or in clunky, bloated MS Excel format
or read the whole list (volume rankings) in plain text.
The file is native to OpenOffice, so if it is doing something wonky in Excel I blame Microsoft. (should be fine, tho.)
Trivia, factoids, and notes:
- Currently tracking 4004 individual titles
- 3894 of which are ranked — that is to say, the volume appeared at least once in source charts over the 14 week period considered.
- 115 titles appeared only once, and scored a single point.
- The 4k volumes comprise 1062 ‘series’ — though my series chart includes one-shots, source and reference books, and possibly an undiscovered typo or two (such that one book may have been counted twice.) I’ll try to nail down a more accurate number of series for the Q4 Winter report.
- selecting a score of 100 as arbitrarily significant, there are 2173 titles that ‘matter’.
- using a scalar to reduce the score to an easily comprehended 1-10 scale (where most of the back list rates a 0 or 1 and Naruto vol 30 cranks it up to 11 [*guitar riff*] ) we can whittle the list down to 807 titles that ‘matter’.
807 is probably still too many for most folks to care to look at, so I won’t post it [again] — and for those who must know, even all the way down to that 115-way tie for last place, I refer you to the links at the top.
For Simon (who claims ignorance in things math-y) and others who don’t want to get their hands dirty mucking around with numbers, I’ll be breaking this monster down into finely sliced, nicely grilled, and easily digested servings for the next week. Here’s your appetizer:
Top 10 Volumes
1. ↑23 (24) : Naruto 29 – Viz Shonen Jump, May 2008 [4602.7] ::
2. ↑191 (193) : Naruto 30 – Viz Shonen Jump, Jul 2008 [4583] ::
3. ↓-1 (2) : Death Note 2 – Viz Shonen Jump Advanced, Nov 2005 [4484.45] ::
4. ↓-3 (1) : Death Note 1 – Viz Shonen Jump Advanced, Oct 2005 [4420.65] ::
5. ↑8 (13) : Vampire Knight 3 – Viz Shojo Beat, Oct 2007 [4320.45] ::
6. ↑6 (12) : Vampire Knight 1 – Viz Shojo Beat, Jan 2007 [4302.55] ::
7. ↓-3 (4) : Naruto 28 – Viz Shonen Jump, Mar 2008 [4283.2] ::
8. ↓-5 (3) : Death Note 3 – Viz Shonen Jump Advanced, Jan 2006 [4272.85] ::
9. ↔0 (9) : Vampire Knight 2 – Viz Shojo Beat, May 2007 [4245.2] ::
10. ↑12 (22) : Death Note 13 How to Read Death Note – Viz Shonen Jump Advanced, Feb 2008 [4178.6] ::
Top 10 Series
1. ↔0 (1) : Naruto – Viz Shonen Jump, Jul 2003 [36032.2] ::
2. ↔0 (2) : Death Note – Viz Shonen Jump Advanced, Oct 2005 [27130.33] ::
3. ↑1 (4) : Fruits Basket – Tokyopop, Feb 2004 [23168.27] ::
4. ↓-1 (3) : Bleach – Viz Shonen Jump, Jun 2004 [21010.84] ::
5. ↔0 (5) : Vampire Knight – Viz Shojo Beat, Jan 2007 [19087.68] ::
6. ↑2 (8) : Warriors – HC/Tokyopop, Apr 2007 [12947.79] ::
7. ↑2 (9) : Kingdom Hearts – Tokyopop, Oct 2005 [11366.93] ::
8. ↓-1 (7) : Ouran High School Host Club – Viz Shojo Beat, Jul 2005 [10316.46] ::
9. ↑12 (21) : Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle – Del Rey, Apr 2004 [9300.12] ::
10. ↑143 (153) : Rosario+Vampire – Viz Shonen Jump Advanced, Jun 2008 [9066.33] ::
Please note that these are the Summer numbers (22 June to 21 September) so yeah, Naruto 31 is going gangbusters now, but was released at the end of that time frame.
