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Originally Posted by whitecloud
isnt biblia pretty much number one right now?
by the way...i hope the success of this, the movie, railgun S (hope) pave way to index 3 soon, as soon as winter?
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Biblia number 1 in what? It's not a light novel, so it's not top there (right now I'd say
Sword Art Online has the most momentum, but sales/print numbers per volume still haven't topped
Haruhi). Paperback books? Last year Keigo Higashino sold more paperbacks than En Mikami (Biblia's author), though Biblia had the highest selling paperback book overall. Please clarify your statement.
I wouldn't expect
Index III until next spring at the earliest. Putting it in Autumn would be five straight cours of the franchise, enough to reduce sales. Winter is unlikely since it's a notable franchise and those typically air in Spring/Autumn seasons.
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Originally Posted by Suzuku
Anyway, as for novel sales, I'm really pleased with how it's doing even though an Index anime isn't airing right now. We've seen with Oreimo, Shana, ZnT, and other series that sales tank hard after the anime has been off for a while. Even though Index sales have slowed from what they were last year/2011 with books selling in the mid-high 200k range it's still awesome to see that the fanbase is so strong it can retain 150k on Oricon without an anime running.
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Last time
Railgun aired, it led to a continued increase in
Index LN pressings:
Index anime starts:
2008/08 | *320万部 | 17巻 | 18.8万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
2008/11 | *440万部 | 18巻 | 24.4万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
Index anime ends:
2009/03 | *467万部 | 18巻 | 25.9万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
2009/07 | *520万部 | 19巻 | 27.4万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
Railgun anime starts:
2009/11 | *750万部 | 22巻 | 34.1万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
Railgun anime ends:
2010/05 | *770万部 | 22巻 | 35.0万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
2010/08 | 1000万部 | 23巻 | 39.1万部/巻 | とある魔術の禁書目録
Index II starts...
This time, there's no big increase in pressings with a currently airing anime and a just-released movie. LN sales appear to have saturated at their current level of 150k.