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NARUTO Maintains Strong Lead While A Total Of 33 Of The Top 50 Listings Go To VIZ Media Manga Titles

San Francisco, CA, October 1, 2007 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced that NARUTO manga volumes 16, 17 and 18 occupied the first, second and third positions on Nielsen BookScan's noted Top 50 Graphic Novel list for the week ending September 23, 2007. The trio of latest volumes from the popular ninja action series has remained in the top three spots on the BookScan Graphic Novel list for four consecutive weeks. More than 2.3 million NARUTO manga volumes have been sold domestically since the series launched.

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The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending September 23rd:

  • #74 - Naruto, Volume 18 - Viz - (Last week: #50)
  • #100 - Naruto, Volume 17 - Viz - (Last week: #72)
  • #117 - Naruto, Volume 16 - Viz - (Last week: #86)

Also, Comicsnob posts the online manga sales rankings:

The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending September 16th:

  • #50 - Naruto, Volume 18 - Viz - (Last week: #37)
  • #72 - Naruto, Volume 17 - Viz - (Last week: #65)
  • #86 - Naruto, Volume 16 - Viz - (Last week: #74)

Also, Comicsnob posts the online manga sales rankings:

ICv2 has released the August 2007 top 100 graphic novel sales estimates and the top 300 comics sales estimates based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data. Also from ICv2 is an analysis of the trends in August based on the graphic novel sales chart.

The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending September 9th:

  • #37 - Naruto, Volume 18 - Viz - (Last week: #62)
  • #65 - Naruto, Volume 17 - Viz - (Last week: #93)
  • #74 - Naruto, Volume 16 - Viz - (Last week: #102)

Also, Comicsnob posts the "Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings for 13 September."

The following manga appeared on the USA Today Booklist Top 150 (PDF) for the week ending September 2nd:

  • #62 - Naruto, Volume 18 - Viz - (Last week: #116)
  • #93 - Naruto, Volume 17 - Viz - (Last week: #123)
  • #102 - Naruto, Volume 16 - Viz - (Last week: #131)
  • #132 - Negima!, Volume 15 - Del Rey - (Last week: #0)