Check out the sales performance of XXXHOLiC #14 on the japanese rankings a week after its release. Even the upcoming tankoubon releases of XXXHOLiC and Tsubasa made brief appearances ^^
e-hon Daily Comics Ranking:
02/19
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Detroit Metal City #7
3rd – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
02/20
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
3rd – Daiya no A #14
02/21
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
3rd – Daiya no A #14
02/22
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Inuyasha! #56
3rd – Skip Beat #21
02/23
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Skip Beat #21
3rd – MAJOR #71
02/25
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Skip Beat #21
3rd – MAJOR #71
Amazon.co.jp Daily Comics Ranking:
02/17
1st – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
2nd – XXXHOLiC #14
3rd – Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei #16
5th – Tsubasa #26 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
02/19
1st – Houkago-Play
2nd – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
3rd – XXXHOLiC #14
5th – Tsubasa #26 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
02/20
1st – Houkago-Play
2nd – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
3rd – XXXHOLiC #14
7th – Tsubasa #26 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
02/21
1st – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
2nd – XXXHOLiC #14
3rd – Touhou Sangetsu-sei ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity #2
02/22
1st – PLUTO #7
2nd – Touhou Sangetsu-sei ~ Strange and Bright Nature Deity #2
3rd – XXXHOLiC #14
7th – Tsubasa #26 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
02/23
1st – PLUTO #7
2nd – Sekirei #8
3rd – XXXHOLiC #14
8th – Tsubasa #26 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
Yahoo! Books Weekly Ranking:
02/11~02/17
1st – Garasu no Kamen #43
2nd – Special Project 20th Century Boys (22 vols.) + 21st Century Boys Set
3rd – FLESH&BLOOD #12 Limited Edition
19th – XXXHOLiC #14
29th – XXXHOLiC #15 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
65th – Tsubasa #27 – OAD Limited Edition (pre-sale)
Taiyosha Weekly Ranking:
02/16~02/22
1st – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
2nd – XXXHOLiC #14
3rd – Shijo Saikyo no Deshi Kenichi #3
Tohan Weekly Ranking:
02/19~02/25
1st – XXXHOLiC #14
2nd – Mahou-sensei Negima! #25
3rd – Skip Beat #21
To summarize it, XXXHOLiC did pretty excellently, not to mention that the 4 OADs volumes have been constantly appearing on the rankings since the OAD announcement.
The amount of XXXHOLiC comics sold up to now has increased to 9.500.000 copies =) I think it’ll break the 10 million mark until the end of the series.
EDIT: According to Oricon (where it also obtained position #1), XXXHOLiC #14 sold 264.393 copies in its first week.
Also, the official website of Tsubasa and XXXHOLiC OADs have posted a report from the recently-finished after-recording sessions of Tsubasa Shunraiki Part 1 with comments from cast members, check it out here.
Tsubasa Shunraiki comes out with Tsubasa #26, on March 17.
Is that why it’s not available on amazon.co.jp?
It makes me sad, because I waited too long to order it and now it looks like I’ll have to search elsewhere to buy it.
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>Is that why it’s not available on amazon.co.jp?
Probably. I heard that XXXHOLiC Shunmuki 1 is sold out, indeed =/
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Thanks for the info!
I really hope someone can translate those comments from the Tsubasa crew, I want to know what they wrote, but I can’t read japanese -_-
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I haven’t really looked at them, so I can’t help you -_-
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Thank you for the news as always!!
Do you have any idea if the holic oad has come out with subtitles yet??
If you do, can you please send me the link??
thanks!
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As far as I know, no fansub has released any subbed version yet =/
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Just read xxxHOLiC 174 and Tsubasa 214: The Last Chain – I won’t say who, but the person who Fei Wang wishes to bring back is shown in this week’s Tsubasa! Also, there’s no splash page for the Tsubasa again, incase anyone’s interested.
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