Original English-language Manga - Reception

Reception

According to Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, an editor at Tokyopop, their best selling OEL manga sells about half as well as their best selling Japanese-origin manga.

The trade magazine ICv2 Guide to Manga lists the top 25 and top 50 best-selling manga based on sales data obtained from bookstores and comics shops across the United States. The table below shows those OEL manga that reached the top 25 or top 50 sales status in 2007 and 2008 with their sales ranks and ICv2 references. ICv2's editors write that titles not released during the time period shown tend to drop down or off the list, while titles released during the same time period tend to rise.

OEL Manga in the Top 50 Manga for 2007 and 2008 in the U.S.
Date Source Title Author Publisher Rank
Mid-Feb. to mid-May, 2007 ICv2 #45, from page 6 Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy Richard A. Knaak Tokyopop 12/50
My Dead Girlfriend Eric Wight Tokyopop 38/50
Mid-May to mid-Aug., 2007 ICv2 #47, from page 8 Megatokyo Fred Gallagher CMX 25/25
June-Aug., 2007 ICv2 #48, from pages 8, 10 Megatokyo Fred Gallagher CMX 33/50
Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy Richard A. Knaak Tokyopop 45/50
Sept-Oct, 2007 ICv2 #50, from pages 8–9 Return to Labyrinth Jake T. Forbes Tokyopop 40/50
Bizenghast M. Alice LeGrow Tokyopop 44/50
Full Year, 2007 ICv2 #51, from pages 8–9 Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy Richard A. Knaak Tokyopop 14/50
Megatokyo Fred Gallagher CMX 26/50
Return to Labyrinth Jake T. Forbes Tokyopop 36/50
Dramacon Svetlana Chmakova Tokyopop 41/50
Final 2007 (top 25) ICv2 #52, from page 10 Warcraft: The Sunwell Trilogy Richard A. Knaak Tokyopop 14/25
Jan. to mid-Mar., 2008 ICv2 #54, from pages 8–9 Dramacon Svetlana Chmakova Tokyopop 20/50
Dark Hunger Christine Feehan Berkeley 49/50
Jan. to late-Apr., 2008 ICv2 #55, from page 10 Dramacon Svetlana Chmakova Tokyopop 20/25
March to Mid-May, 2008 ICv2 #57, from pages 8–9 Dark Wraith of Shannara Terry Brooks Del Rey 22/50
May to Mid-July, 2008 ICv2 #59, from pages 8–9 In Odd We Trust Dean Koontz Del Rey 11/50
Batman: Gotham Knight Louise Simonson Penguin 25/50

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