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XXXHOLiC Rei #4 fell to the 28th position in Oricon’s weekly comic ranking, with 30,008 copies sold on its third week of sales and an estimate of 206,583 copies sold overall.
This week’s performance is only slightly better than the third week performance of volume 3 (30.008 for volume 4 against 29,633 of volume 3). However when you consider the overall sales, this volume remains having the worst numbers for a XXXHOLiC volume on its third week.
These numbers are only for the regular edition. Numbers for the Blu-Ray limited edition are unknown.
It is likely that XXXHOLiC Rei #4 will show up again next week on Oricon, if that is the case, I’ll post here about its performance along with a chart of the previous XXXHOLiC Rei ranking performances.
Source: Anime News Network.
Four CLAMP books are scheduled to be released in December and the prices have been announced.
Card Captor Sakura Clear Card arc #1 (regular edition)
Release date: December 2
Price: 429 yens
* Kodansha has yet to announce the price for the limited edition but some online shops are listing it for 2280 yens (like Animate).
Official Guide Book Tsubasa CARACTere CHRoNiCLE
Release date: December 2
Price: 880 yens
Tsubasa Mini Artbook – Tsubasa ILLuSTRaTION CHRoNiCLE
Release date: December 2
Price: 680 yens
Official Guide Book Tsubasa SToRｙ CHRoNiCLE
Release date: December 31
Price: 880 yens
Now let’s talk about these prices. Both guidebooks having the same price seems fair to me, and the prices are OK too, as expected. Now, I was a little surprised to know that the mini-artbook is actually cheaper than the guidebooks. The binding must be similar to the two previously released artbooks, I’m just curious about its size dimensions (A4 vs A5). We also have the release date for the second guide: the very last day of 2016.
Regarding Card Captor Sakura, the price is similar to the original tankoubon release from the 90s, so it looks like it’s gonna be closer to that edition than the Nakayoshi 60th Anniversary edition, design-wise. It doesn’t look like it’s coming with color pages, either… We still have to know more info about the limited edition but it’d say the book itself will be the same for both versions and the bonus material (a mangaka set for volume 1) will be the only difference between them.
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Good news (sort of)!
XXXHOLiC Rei #4 climbed to the 5th position in Oricon’s weekly comic ranking, with 72.656 copies sold on its second week of sales and an estimate of 176,575 copies sold overall.
Although it climbed two positions in comparison to last week’s chart, this is the worst second week performance for a XXXHOLiC volume since I started taking record of sales (volume 13). It is also the worst overall sales for a XXXHOLiC volume two weeks after its release.
These numbers are only for the regular edition. Numbers for the Blu-Ray limited edition are unknown but they are probably lower than 12.420, which is how much the last position sold this past week.
For comparison’s sake, the first three volumes of XXXHOLiC Rei sold 85.158, 73,911 and 76,331 copies on their second week of sales, respectively.
It is likely that XXXHOLiC Rei #4 will show up again next week on Oricon, if that is the case, I’ll post here about its performance.
Source: Anime News Network.
Much like Tsubasa, XXXHOLiC is slowly selling less and less copies by each new volume. Could this be a sign of XXXHOLiC loosing its popularity? Either way, Kodansha doesn’t seem to care much about that, what with the release of limited editions for each volume, the upcoming Tsubasa guide books and mini-artbook and XXXHOLiC‘s theatre adaptation. Both series are selling fairly well, but clearly not as they used to.
On another note, the release dates for the upcoming Tsubasa guide books and mini-artbook have been postponed. Please check this post for the updated release dates.
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XXXHOLiC Rei #4 debuted at the 7th position in Oricon’s weekly comic ranking, with 103.919 copies sold on its first week of sales.
This is the worst first week performance for a XXXHOLiC volume ever since I started taking record of sales (volume 13). On the other hand, XXXHOLiC Rei #4 was Kodansha‘s best selling title of that week. That needs to be acknowledged.
These numbers are only for the regular edition. Numbers for the Blu-Ray limited edition are unknown but they are probably lower than 15.765, which is how much the last position sold in that week.
For comparison’s sake, the first three volumes of XXXHOLiC Rei sold 183.837, 155.848 and 154.586 copies on their first week of sales, respectively.
It is likely that XXXHOLiC Rei #4 will show up again next week on Oricon, if that is the case, I’ll post here about its performance.
Source: Anime News Network.
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This week’s issue of Weekly Shonen Magazine is announcing the upcoming release of two Official Guides and a mini artbook for Tsubasa.
Official Guide Book Tsubasa CARACTere CHRoNiCLE
Release date: December 2
Contents:
Official Guide Book Tsubasa SToRｙ CHRoNiCLE
Release date: Late December 2016
Contents:
Tsubasa Mini Artbook – Tsubasa ILLuSTRaTION CHRoNiCLE
Release date: December 2
This are sure good news!
I’m glad we won’t have to wait too long to have the color illustrations of Nirai Kanai hen. It would have taken many more years to fill another artbook with the same length as the previous two ALBuM De REProDUCTioNS. I am curious about which illustrations from RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE will be selected. Instead of reprints, it be would be much better if it were the colored comic pages that were in neither of the artbooks. I counted 20 color illustrations for WoRLD CHRoNiCLE and 3 for each special limited edition cover, but maybe I miscounted… I’m not sure if the covers of the special editions of volumes 1 and 2 would be counted as WoRLD CHRoNiCLE or RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE ^^” Either way, I hope they all get included in this mini artbook.
And two guide books? That actually took me by surprise. The contents were divided in a way that makes it hard to pick only one. I mean, I could live without the character surveys, but the storyboards and interviews are always so interesting! I hope they’ll include character sketches and unreleased materials.
Definitely looking forward to all 3 of them!
Special thanks to Manga Mag Japon for kindly letting me know about this.
Update: The release dates for all 3 books have been postponed. Source: CLAMP-NET.COM.
In a collaboration between CLAMP and SOUND THEATRE, XXXHOLiC will be getting a stage reading drama with CLAMP’s script, the XXXHOLiC anime original cast, SOUND THEATRE music director and a live band.
CLAMP × SOUND THEATRE
Original work / Script：CLAMP
Music Director：Yusaku Tsuchiya
【Dates】
January 28, 2017
January 29, 2017
【Venue】
TOYOSU PIT (Tokyo)
【Cast】
Yuuko Ichihara： Sayaka Ohara
Kimihiro Watanuki： Jun Fukuyama
Shizuka Doumeki： Kazuya Nakai
Mokona： Mika Kikuchi
Official Website: http://xxxholic.soundtheatre.jp/
Source: CLAMP-NET.COM
For those not able to attend, we can only hope that we’ll get some sort of DVD/Blu-Ray release for this.
The release date for XXXHOLiC Rei Chapter 53 has been postponed once again, from October 31 to November 14.
This is the second time Chapter 53 is re-scheduled.
Source: CLAMP-NET.COM