Tayla Lyell: November 2015

Monday, November 30, 2015

Sword Art Online only 6th?! The Top 30 bestselling light novel series of 2015

2015 is almost at an end, and the Japanese media website, Oricon, has just revealed which Japanese light novel series sold the most copies this year.* These are based on which light novel*series are selling the most number of copies from the period of*November 17, 2014 to November 22, 2015. Here are the Top 30:

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? by*Fujino Oomori –*1,220,217 copies sold
The Irregular at Magic High School by Tsutomu Satou –*1,175,978 copies sold
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU by Wataru Watari –*1,050,446 copies sold
Overlord by Kugane Maruyama –*927,413 copies sold
Naruto Story Series by*Masashi Kishimoto,*Akira Higashiyama, Others –*883,833*copies sold
Sword Art Online by Reki Kawahara –*788,895
Kagerou Daze by JIN –*494,721
Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuuby Touko Fujitani and HoneyWorks –*413,663
New Testament: A Certain Magical Index by Kazuma Kamachi –*405,666
Sword Art Online: Progressive by Reki Kawahara –*390,856
Boukyaku Tantei Series by NisiOisin –*380,413
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Side Story* by*Fujino Oomori –*336,883
Haikyu!! Novel Edition!! by Haruichi Furudate and Kiyoko Hoshi –*333,922
No Game, No Life by Yuu Kamiya –*326,179
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online by Keiichi Sigsawa and Reki Kawahara – 314,890
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend by Fumiaki Maruto – 313,744
My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Short Story Collection by Wataru Watari – 313,159
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign: Ichinose Guren, 16-Sai no Hametsu by Takaya Kagami – 302,486
GATE by Takumi Yanai –*294,451
The Devil is a Part-Timer! by Satoshi Wagahara –*289,046
Monogatari Series by NisiOisin – 288,060
Date A Live by Koushi Tachibana – 263,824
The Boy and the Beast by Mamoru Hosoda –*254,547
Kuroko’s Basketball -Replace- by Sawako Hirabayashi and Tadatoshi Fujimaki – 250,630
World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman by Akamitsu Awamura – 242,408
Accel World by Reki Kawahara – 237,742
The Testament of Sister New Devil by Tetsuto Uesu –*234,809
Aria the Scarlet Ammo by Chuugaku Akamatsu –*230,153
Chivalry of a Failed Knight by Riku Misora –*226,010
Naruto Shinden Series Shueisha by Masashi Kishimoto, Takashi Yano, Shin Towada –*216,734

It seems like annual favorites like Sword Art Online, A Certain Magical Index, The Irregular at Magic High School, and My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU were not able to get #1 this year, because 2015 seems to be the year of the goddess Hestia, as she boob strings her way to #1 in terms of sales. It’s the year of DanMachi for light novels, and from the rankings alone, Hestia really has defeated a lot of big names.You can also check out the Top 30 highest selling mangas of 2015 through this link

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Here are the Top 30 bestselling manga series of 2015

With the year already nearing its end, Japanese media website, Oricon, has just released their rankings for top selling manga series for 2015. These are based on which manga series are selling the most number of copies sold from the period of*November 17, 2014 to November 22, 2015. Here are the Top 30:

One Piece by Eiichiro Oda –*14,102,52 copies sold
The Seven Deadly Sins by Nakaba Suzuki –*10,304,112 copies sold
Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama –*8,778,048 copies sold
Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui –*8,605,861 copies sold
Kingdom by Yasuhisa Hara –*8,569,215 copies sold
Haikyuu!! by Haruichi Furudate – 6,531,508 copies sold
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma by *Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki –*4,321,830 copies sold
Terra Formars by Yuu Sasuga and Kenichi Tachibana – 4,188,158 copies sold
Prison School by Akira Hiramoto –*4,058,119 copies sold
Tokyo Ghoul:re by Sui Ishida – 3,758,541 copies sold
One-Punch Man by ONE and Yuusuke Murata –*3,689,013
Blue Spring Ride by Io Sakisaka – 3,638,637 copies sold
Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida – 3,576,177 copies sold
Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto –*3,498,177 copies sold
Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima – 3,472,121 copies sold
Yowamushi Pedal by Wataru Watanabe – 3,355,844 copies sold
Nisekoi by Naoshi Komi –*3,199,971 copies sold
Ace of Diamond by Yuuji Terajima – 2,940,024 copies sold
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign by Daisuke Furuya, Takaya Kagami and Yamato Yamamoto – 2,850,718 copies sold
Magi by Shinobu Ohtaka – 2,820,526 copies sold
Bleach by Tite Kubo –*2,818,926 copies sold
World Trigger by*Daisuke Ashihara – 2,735,269 copies sold
Gintama by Hideaki Sorachi –*2,642,690 copies sold
Orange by Ichigo Takano –*2,321,095*copies sold
Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama –*2,308,421*copies sold
My Love Story!! by Aruko and Kazune Kawahara – 2,304,674 copies sold
My Hero Academia by Kouhei Horikoshi –*2,190,845*copies sold
Hoozuki no Reitetsu by Natsumi Eguchi –*2,148,504*copies sold
March comes in like a lion by Chika Umino –*1,979,421*copies sold
Black Butler by Yana Toboso –*1,957,229 copies sold

As expected, One Piece has topped this year’s crop of winners, and it does so convincingly, getting more than 3,000 copies sold over the #2 ranked Seven Deadly Sins manga. It seems that One Piece ain’t slowing down at all just yet!
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Sunday, November 29, 2015

[VIDEO] MuvLuv Alternative spin-off anime, Schwarzesmarken's latest PV is streamed

MuvLuv Alternative is the science fiction spin-off to the MuvLuv visual novel series, and now, it will be having yet another spin-off anime in*Schwarzesmarken, which is set*18 years before the events of another MuvLuv Alternative spin-off, MuvLuv Alternative: Total Eclipse. Here’s the latest PV, which was released by Avex Pictures:

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The anime will be based on the novel whose concept was written by*Hiroki Uchida. It follows the 666th division as they battle gigantic alien monsters invading the earth known as the BETA.

The anime will premiere on January 2016.

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Saturday, November 28, 2015

These Danboard Computer Glasses from Tokyo Otaku Mode are just the cutest

In a special partnership between Tokyo Otaku Mode and*Kiyohiko Azuma’s bestselling comedy manga, Yotsuba&!, they are giving fans of the manga’s lovable cardboard robot mascot, Danboard, a special treat with the new*Danboard Computer Glasses which can help protect your eyes fro*from harmful blue light, which of course can cause eye strain.

The frames and lenses of all the glasses use raw material from Italian company Mazzucchelli, and assembled by master artisans in Sabae, Japan, a place in Japan famous for being one of the three biggest glasses manufacturing areas in the world.

The glasses use high performance, medical grade CR-39 lenses which can block out blue light, delivering Made in Japan quality to fans all over the world. The frames, glasses case, and cleaning cloth meanwhile also have a cardboard feel which bring out their Danboard theme.

These glasses can get your eyes protected from harmful blue light, which are usually emitted from TV screens, computer screens, or smartphones. These glasses are now available via Tokyo Otaku Mode for $148.99.

【Product Details】
Product Name:「Danboard Computer Glasses」
Pre-order Start Date: 2015/11/7
(Shipping from Feb. 2016)
Detail: $148.99 USD(No Shipping Fee)
Made in: Japan
Frame Material: Acetate
Lens:CR39
Blue Light Cut-rate:
England Standard (BS 2724:1987) 49% Cut
Japan Industrial Standard (JIS T 7333:2005)
31.8% Cut
Size: 1 Size Only (53/15/142)
Style: Full Frame/Uni-sex

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Friday, November 27, 2015

Heroes Nexus Championship (Singapore) qualifier #2 tournament live stream

If you play Blizzard’s team brawler/MOBA title, Heroes of the Storm, you might want to tune in today to the live stream for Heroes Nexus Championship (Singapore)’s 2nd qualifier.
Happening right now at the Enzo Games cybercafe near Mustafa Centre, the top four teams in this qualifier will head into an 8-team play-off on December 12 to fight for a handsome $40,000 prize pool.

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The Top 20 most pure and innocent anime characters according to Charapedia

In anime, there are characters who are wily and use their brains or knowledge of the world to their advantage, however, there are those anime characters who are so innocent that most of the time, they don’t even know what’s going on or are too pure to even know what that three-letter S*word which ends with X*means.

For this week’s Charapedia poll, 10,000 anime fans, 59% male, 41% female, were asked to rank the anime characters they think is most pure or most innocent. Of the 74 characters included in the poll, only the Top 20 were announced, and they are:

20) Meiko “Menma” Honma (AnoHana)
19) Index Librorum Prohibitorum (A Certain series)
18) Popura Taneshima (Working!)
17)*Torhu Honda (Fruits Basket)
16)*Yuki Takeya (School Live!)
15) Umi Sonoda (Love Live!)
14) Haruka Nanami (UtaPri)
13) Cocoa Hoto (Is the Order a Rabbit?)
12)*Juushimatsu Matsuno (Mr. Osomatsu)
11) Saika Totsuka (My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU)

10) Son Goku (Dragon Ball)

9) Chino Kafuu (Is the Order a Rabbit?)

8) Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece)

7) Sakura Kinomoto (Cardcaptor Sakura)

6) Shoyo Hinata (Haikyuu!!)

5) Yui Hirasawa (K-On!)

4) Akari Akaza (YuruYuri)

3) Kosaki Onodera (Nisekoi)

2) Eru Chitanda (Hyouka)

1)*Sawako Kuronuma (Kimi ni Todoke)

She may look like a scary “vengeful spirit” from The Ring, but when it comes to becoming actually pure and innocent, Sawako actually takes the cake as her moments can trump*some of the “achievements in innocence” by some of the characters in this list.meanwhile, #2 ranked Eru Chitanda is a sheltered rich girl, and this has resulted in her innocence, which has led to her curiousity, which of course has led to Oreki’s constant dismay as he is forced to expend energy. The other members of the Top 5 like Onodera, Akarin, and Yui are no slouches either. While Akari and Yui are legendary for being innocent and pure, Onodera has that shy personality which makes people want to protect her.

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Thursday, November 26, 2015

Love Live!’s μ’s, AKB48, and more confirmed for this year’s Kouhaku Uta Gasen

After all the speculations, NHK has finally announced the official participants to one of Japan’s most prestigious musical events, the*Kouhaku*Uta Gassen, or Red and White Song Battle. Only the “cream of the crop” of Japan’s music industry can be invited to the annual New year musical extravaganza, and it is considered a huge honor to be invited to perform.

With the Love Live! School Idol Movie being a big hit and having chart-topping singles here and there,*Love Live!’s μ’s have been really popular this year, so much so that they have been confirmed*to perform in an event where only the “Top Brass” of the Japanese music industry are invited to join in.

Another notable group joining the annual extravaganza is BUMP OF CHICKEN, the group best known for performing the theme song for Blood Blockade Battlefront, who surprisingly has decided to join in this year after years of turning down invites from NHK. This can be attributed for the group’s reluctance to perform on TV, however, they seem to have been mellowing out on the idea of performing on TV recently.

Here are the complete line-up of artistes and their teams, who will be performing during the annual New Year special*Kouhaku*Uta Gassen*(the number in parenthesis next to the names represents the number of times they’ve performed on the program):

Red Team:

E-girls (3)
Ikimono-gakari (8)
Sayuri Ishikawa (38)
Miki Imai (2)
AKB48 (8)
NMB48 (3)
Sakurako Ohara (1)
Natsuko Godai (22)
Fuyumi Sakamoto (27)
Ringo Sheena (3)
Aya Shimazu (2)
Superfly (1)
Mariko Takahashi (3)
Yoshimi Tendō (20)
AAA (6)
Kana Nishino (6)
Nogizaka46 (1)
Perfume (8)
Ayako Fuji (21)
Seiko Matsuda (19)
Kaori Mizumori (13)
μ’s (1)
miwa (3)
Rebecca (1)
Akiko Wada (39)

White Team:

Arashi (7)
Hiroshi Itsuki (45)
EXILE (11)
X Japan (6)
KANJANI∞(4)
Gesu no Kiwami Otome (1)
Hiromi Go (28)
Golden Bomber (4)
Masahiko Kondō(10)
Sandaime J Soul Brothers (4)
SMAP (23)
SEKAI NO OWARI (2)
Sexy Zone (3)
TOKIO (22)
Hideaki Tokunaga (10)
BUMP OF CHICKEN (1)
Kiyoshi Hikawa (16)
V6 (2)
Masaharu Fukuyama (8)
Gen Hoshino (1)
Takashi Hosokawa (39)
Hiroshi Miyama (1)
Akihiro Miwa (4)
Shinichi Mori (48)
Keisuke Yamauchi (1)
YUZU (6)

The line-up of artistes greeting 2016 will be split into two groups, red and white, with all the male artistes representing the White Team while all the female artistes representing the Red Team. The winners are then decided via popular vote.

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[VIDEO] New Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax PV shows new characters' moves

Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition, the sequel to Sega’s popular light novel cross-over fighting game, Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax, is headed to PS3, PS4, and PS Vita consoles in Japan next month, and Sega has just released a new PV for the game which shows off the moves of the newly added characters, along with the ones returning from the previous game. Play the video until the end and you’ll see what might happen when Mikoto and Kuroko face off against one another…

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The newly-added characters to the game include Emi Yuusa/ Emilia the Hero from The Devil is a Part-timer!, Quenser Barbotage from Heavy Object, Kuroko Shirai from A Certain Magical Index, and Tatsuya Shiba from The Irregular at Magic High School.

Scheduled for release on December 17, 2015, the home console versions for*Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition will be available for the PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4.

Aside from the new characters, Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition will feature a better balance between the characters as French Bread and Ecole will be tweaking the game while also adding a few new features, which were not available in the original release. Though the original game was eventually released for home consoles as well as getting an English localization, no word yet whether this sequel game will also*also be getting an English version.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Hiromu Arakawa's Silver Spoon to return from hiatus in January 2016

Silver Spoon fans, rejoice! After a lengthy hiatus which started last May, Hiromu Arakawa’s agricultural manga, Silver Spoon, will finally be returning in January 27, 2016 in issue #9 of Weekly Shounen Sunday magazine’s 2016 edition.

The legendary mangaka, who is also responsible for creating Full Metal Alchemist and illustrating the Heroic Legend of Arslan manga, said she slowed down the pace of the manga due to the declining health of a family member. Last April however, was the end of that family member’s treatment, and Arakawa and said that she will continue making the manga as she watches over her family.
The return has been welcome news for fans who are eagerly awaiting for the manga’s return since May, which subsequently came after a shorter hiatus which lasted until April earlier this year.
Silver Spoon is*Arakawa Hiromu’s follow-up to her successful manga series, Full Metal Alchemist. Set in an agricultural school in Hokkaido, it depicts the daily life of *Yuugo Hachiken, a student from Sapporo who had enrolled into the school under the false impression that he will be able to do well because of the easier academic courses. The series has inspired two anime series.
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