In its second week of release, the 15th volume of Masashi Kishimoto’s international phenomenon Naruto has shot to No. 53 on USA Today’s Top 150 Books list, up an impressive 54 spots from its debut.
Naruto, Vol. 11, climbed as high as No. 21 in August 2006.
The USA Today list tracks all genres and types of books sold in some 4,700 brick-and-mortar and online stores.
The first volume of Shiro Amano’s Kingdom Hearts II, based on the popular Walt Disney/Final Fantasy video game mash-up, squeaked in at No. 149 in its first week.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
In France it sometimes get to be the number 1. And Naruto is NOT even the best selling comic in the country! A few months ago, the latest Largo Winch book held the #1 book selling spot for a whole month!
Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)