For the first half of fiscal year 2011 (Dec 6th 2010 – May 30th 2011) Moshidora sold a ridiculous 962K – nearly a million copies of its light novels and over 700K more than number two on the list.
Moshidora put its management prowess to good work on devising one of the most innovative and successful sports slice of life stories ever – and the sales truly show it.
The light novel sales of first half fiscal year 2011:
Ranked by volume (copies)
*1, 962,495 Moshidora
*2. 240,443 One Piece Strong Words vol.1
*3, 223,124 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu vol.9
*4, 206,086 Toaru Majutsu no Index: New Testament vol.1
*5, 205,326 Kabukimonogatari
*6, 180,408 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai vol.8
*7, 178,077 Hanamonogatari
*8, 171,476 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.6
*9, 168,478 Durarara!! vol.9
10, 162,836 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.7
11, 152,939 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai vol.5
12, 151,910 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.1
13, 145,523 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.2
14, 143,478 Gintama Kaettekita 3 nen Z gumi Ginpachi Sensei Returns
15, 140,817 IS: Infinite Stratos vol.3
16, 139,380 One Piece Strong Words vol.2Ranked by author (copies)
*1, 1,123,683 Kamachi Kazuma
*2, 1,100,471 Arikawa Hiro
*3, 1,040,219 Yumizuru Izuru
*4, *,969,905 Iwasaki Natsumi (“Moshidora”)
*5, *,695,053 Sakuraba Kazuki
*6, *,635,229 Nisio Isin
*7, *,624,064 Fushimi Tsukasa
**, *,472,409 Oda Eiichiro
We can also see another impressive entry with repeat offender Infinite Stratos – which forms a nice little list of five all in itself.
The line between success and failure is great on sales chart as apparent with the total no-contest by Moshidora.
Jul 1, 2011 @ 4:58 CDT
Moshidora is a business novel, not a light novel. Just saying.
Jul 1, 2011 @ 7:17 CDT
Yeah I agree – the anime is more like an infomercial also.