It’s been a week since the release of the third volume of GATE 7, it landed at position 4 in Oricon’s weekly ranking on its first week of sales. This is the highest position achieved by a GATE 7 volume to date.
04/30/2012~05/06/2012:
1st – One Piece #66
2nd – Naruto #60
3rd – Bakuman #18
4th – GATE 7 #3
According to Oricon, GATE 7 #3 sold 131.347 copies in its first week. In contrast, the previous GATE 7 volume sold 98.914 copies. This represents an outstanding 32% growth on first week sales!!
In Tayosha’s ranking, GATE 7 #3 also appeared on the 4th position:
1st – One Piece #66
2nd – Naruto #60
3rd – Bakuman #18
4th – GATE 7 #3
Also, Shueisha revealed that the first two volumes of GATE 7 already sold 900.000 copies to date.
GATE 7 is definitely on the right road to become another CLAMP hit! Congratulations to GATE 7 and CLAMP!
I’ll be back next week with the follow up!
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Niiice! 😀
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Sweet! 🙂
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It’s good news for CLAMP. I just wish I could get into that series. 3 graphic novels in and it’s still doing nothing for me. 😦
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Same here. I am very happy for Clamp…just never was able to get into the series myself either. Maybe I will try again when it is further along. :]
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*nods* I think, more than anything, the problem is the main characters for me. There’s nothing fresh about them. I feel like I’ve seen them all so many times before, nothing they do or say seems that interesting.
A couple of the supporting characters have promise, but so far there aren’t really any characters that I like that much and no pairings I ship.
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I’m surprised that GATE 7 is doing so well. This story isn’t very good, and unfortunately neither is Drug and Drop.
A couple interesting things about volume three are that CLAMP added a few new pages to one of the chapters and combined three chapters into one, so now the monthly serial numbering doesn’t match the book numbering.
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I think the story is slowing getting good. I think it has the potential of being really tragic 😉
and combined three chapters into one, so now the monthly serial numbering doesn’t match the book numbering.
Really? Man, I hate when they do that >.
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Yeah, I hate when they combine stories, mostly because it means that some of the serialized pages are missing. So the exact changes in Book three are:
1) From what I can tell from scanlations (since I can’t find the raws and I don’t buy SQ Jump), four new pages were added to chapter 8 (Yukimura’s Power). Some of the original serialized artwork was used but split among different pages.
2) The color tobira-e (splashpage) for chapter 9 (Chikahito and Iemitsu) has been replaced with the tobira-e for chapter 12 (Kurikara).
3) Chapters 11-13 are now one chapter under the title “Masamune and Garasha”. Originally they were “Masamune and Garasha,” “Kurikara,” and “Hana’s Promise.”
4) The tobira-e for Chapter 13 (Hana’s Promise) is not printed in the book.
5) Chapter 14 is now Chapter 12, but the title still remains the same.
CLAMP did do some touch-ups to certain pages, but that seems to be common ever since they started publishing.
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Thank you for this! Very interesting.
The color tobira-e (splashpage) for chapter 9 (Chikahito and Iemitsu) has been replaced with the tobira-e for chapter 12 (Kurikara).
Wait, is there a color illustration of Chikahito and Iemitsu?
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Nevermind my question, you were talking about the chapter’s TITLE, alright! 😉
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Ganbatte Clamp !!!!
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I think they meant the name of the chapter was called Chikahito and Iemitsu, not a color page. ^_^
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I think you’re right! Sorry! XD
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