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Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

What's that? Is it tasty?

Taste like tears when you have to do a bibliography for a project.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

If I'm not wrong, Index should still be among those big sellers like OreImo, Durarara, Mahouka etc... Whether she's leading the pack or not I can't say...

...You know you just named the big name Dengeki Bunko stuff?

Before we start, I'll like to apologize that Baka Test 11 actually sold 30k on the first week, not 60k, but that's partly due to the fact it was released on a Friday...and SAO sold 180k on the first week, double that of Index

Actual sales figures for first week: http://forums.lndb.info/showthread.php?tid=53

Sales figures for April 1st to April 7th: http://lightnoveldatematome.blog.fc2...ntry-1752.html

Sales figures for April 8th to April 14th: http://lightnoveldatematome.blog.fc2...ntry-1803.html

Sales figures for April 29th to May 5th: http://lightnoveldatematome.blog.fc2...ntry-1948.html

Speaking of which, sales figures for last year. Oricon counts Biblia as an LN, but the KonoSugoi committee obviously doesn't think of it as a LN series

*1, 846,883 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou vol.1
*2, 633,127 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou vol.2
*3, 587,359 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou vol.3
*4, 372,821 Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki
*5, 368,089 Sword Art Online vol.1
*6, 317,124 Sword Art Online vol.2
*7, 304,731 Sword Art Online vol.9
*8, 299,319 Sword Art Online vol.3
*9, 286,781 Sword Art Online vol.10
10, 286,031 Sword Art Online vol.4

11, 265,953 Monogatari Series: Second Season Koimonogatari
12, 257,905 Kuroko no Basket -Replace- vol.2
13, 256,812 Toaru Majutsu no Index: New Testament vol.3
14, 256,003 Kotenbu Series vol.1 Hyouka
15, 249,531 Sword Art Online vol.5
16, 248,944 Sword Art Online Progressive vol.1
17, 246,765 Bokura ga Ita
18, 238,096 Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai vol.8
19, 234,235 Sword Art Online vol.6
20, 225,343 Kagerou Days vol.1

21, 224,504 Kuroko no Basket -Replace- vol.3
22, 221,681 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai vol.10
23, 213,382 Toaru Majutsu no Index: New Testament vol.4
24, 211,803 Sword Art Online vol.7
25, 208,078 Monogatari Series: Second Season Tsukimonogatari
26, 207,208 Another vol.1
27, 207,060 Toshokan Sensou vol.1 Small Size Edition
28, 206,810 Sword Art Online vol.8
29, 203,672 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu vol.10
30, 196,364 Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai vol.11

31, 192,111 Kuroko no Basket -Replace- vol.1
32, 187,129 Kotenbu Series vol.2
33, 182,308 Another vol.2
34, 178,722 Kagerou Days vol.2
35, 173,589 Toaru Majutsu no Index: New Testament vol.5
36, 169,291 Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu vol.10.5
37, 165,492 Kotenbu Series vol.3
38, 163,632 Kotenbu Series vol.5
39, 158,612 Kotenbu Series vol.4
40, 133,564 Durarara!! vol.11

41, 129,807 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei vol.4
42, 128,955 Accel World vol.11
43, 126,704 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei vol.5
44, 123,542 Accel World vol.10
45, 115,154 Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki Kids Edition
46, *93,319 Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You vol.1
47, *74,044 Gintama Kaettekita 3nen Zgumi Ginpachi-sensei Phoenix: Funky Monkey Teachers
48, *65,609 Shousetsu Ban Medaka Box vol.1
49, *56,093 Kuro Majo-san ga Tooru!! vol.14
50, *55,505 Bleach: The Death Save The Strawberry

Fair to say that Oreimo is around the same category as Index, and may surpass it this year when 12 comes out next month (thanks to the anime boost. Index and Railgun anime are volumes behind it doesn't matter to me at this point unless it's combined sales for the year), but definitely not DRRR. Mahouka isn't that 'hyped' up yet, I believe.

Originally Posted by Chaos2Frozen

...Maybe it's because the main protagonist still doesn't have a girlfriend yet...

Fans are too divided over the pairings that they cause the series to drop in popularity...probably not.