The New York Times Manga Best Sellers of 2012

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This is a list of notable manga series that appeared in The New York Times Manga Best Seller lists in 2012.

Notable series in the 2012 New York Times Manga Best Seller lists
YearTitleArtistNotesSources
1983 Message to Adolf Osamu Tezuka [1]
1990 GTO: The Early Years Tooru Fujisawa [2]
1991 Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi [3]
1992 X Clamp [4]
1993 Magic Knight Rayearth Clamp [5]
1994 Case Closed Gosho Aoyama [6]
1994 Neon Genesis Evangelion Yoshiyuki Sadamoto [7]
1997 Pokémon Adventures Hidenori Kusaka [8]
1997 Excel Saga Rikdo Koshi [4]
1997 One Piece Eiichiro Oda [9]
1998 Tenjho Tenge Oh! great [10]
1998 Love Hina Ken Akamatsu [11]
1999 20th Century Boys Naoki Urasawa [8]
1999 Dorohedoro Q Hayashida [4]
1999 Naruto Masashi Kishimoto [9]
2000 Tokyo Mew Mew Reiko Yoshida [11]
2000 The Wallflower Tomoko Hayakawa [12]
2000 Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Yukito Kishiro [13]
2001 Fullmetal Alchemist Hiromu Arakawa [9]
2001 Bleach Tite Kubo [14]
2001 Twin Spica Kou Yaginuma [3]
2002 Finder Ayano Yamane [15]
2002 Skip Beat! Yoshiki Nakamura [9]
2002 Genshiken Shimoku Kio [12]
2002 Gunslinger Girl Yu Aida [16]
2002 Ouran High School Host Club Bisco Hatori [17]
2002 Air Gear Oh! great [18]
2003 xxxHolic Clamp [10]
2003 Dawn of the Arcana Rei Tōma [19]
2003 Negima! Magister Negi Magi Ken Akamatsu [20]
2003 Yotsuba&! Kiyohiko Azuma [21]
2002 Loveless Yun Kōga [21]
2003 Ghost in the Shell Masamune Shirow [22]
2003 Three Wolves Mountain  [ it ]Bohra Naono [19] [23] [24]
2004 The Tyrant Falls in Love Hinako Takanaga [12]
2004 Soul Eater Atsushi Ōkubo [2]
2004 D.Gray-man Katsura Hoshino [25]
2004 Rosario + Vampire Akihisa Ikeda [9]
2004 Kitchen Princess [26]
2004 The Drops of God Tadashi Agi [27]
2004 Chi's Sweet Home Kanata Konami [18]
2004 Vampire Knight Matsuri Hino [28]
2004 Bamboo Blade Masahiro Totsuka [29]
2005 Black God [30]
2005 Higurashi When They Cry
There are eight arcs in this series. [31]
2005 Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei Kōji Kumeta [2]
2005 Jack Frost JinHo Ko [31]
2005 Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji Ikari Raising Project Osamu Takahashi [6]
2005 Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll Yumi Tsukirino [11]
2005 The Betrayal Knows My Name Hotaru Odagiri [32]
2005 Bunny Drop Yumi Unita [29]
2005 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
  • Nagaru Tanigawa
  • Noizi Ito
  • Gaku Tsugano
Part of the Haruhi Suzumiya media franchise [12]
2005 Dance in the Vampire Bund Nozomu Tamaki [6]
2005 Yu-Gi-Oh! GX [9]
2006 Witch Hunter Jung-Man Cho [17]
2006 Ninja Girls Tanaka Hosana [16]
2006 Jormungand Keitarou Takahashi [6]
2006 Pandora Hearts Jun Mochizuki [30]
2006 Omamori Himari Milan Matra [12]
2006 Ai Ore! Mayu Shinjo also Ai Ore! Love Me! [10]
2006 The Story of Saiunkoku Sai Yukino [8]
2006 Highschool of the Dead Daisuke Satō [30]
2006 House of Five Leaves Natsume Ono [16]
2006 Young Miss Holmes Kaoru Shintani [16]
2006 Fairy Tail Hiro Mashima [20]
2006 Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee Hiroyuki Asada [33]
2006 Black Butler Yana Toboso [30]
2007 Otomen Aya Kanno [1] [34]
2007 Black Bird Kanoko Sakurakoji [9]
2007 A Certain Scientific Railgun Kazuma Kamachi [33]
2007 Bloody Monday Ryumon Ryo [4]
2007 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Kenji Kuroda [16] [35]
2007 Oresama Teacher Izumi Tsubaki [36]
2007 Toradora! Yuyuko Takemiya [5]
2007 Library Wars: Love & War Hiro Arikawa [14]
2007 Spice and Wolf Isuna Hasekura [29]
2007 Alice in the Country of Hearts
  • QuinRose
  • Soumei Hoshino
 [37]
2007 Dengeki Daisy Kyousuke Motomi [9]
2007 Psyren Toshiaki Iwashiro [18]
2008 Kamisama Kiss Julietta Suzuki [14]
2008 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan Hiroshi Shiibashi [5]
2008 Monster Hunter Orage Hiro Mashima [38] [39]
2008 The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan Puyo Part of the Haruhi Suzumiya media franchise [29]
2008 Maximum Ride Narae Lee [9]
2008 The Earl and the Fairy Mizue Tani [19]
2008 Bakuman [14]
2008 Arata: The Legend Yuu Watase [19]
2008 A Bride's Story Kaoru Mori [29]
2008 Cage of Eden Yoshinobu Yamada [4]
2008 Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura Arina Tanemura [40]
2008 March Story
[26] [41] [42]
2009 Arisa Natsumi Ando [30]
2009 Blue Exorcist Kazue Katō [14]
2009 Durarara!! Ryohgo Narita [30]
2009 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Masahiro Hikokubo [14]
2009 Alice in the Country of Clover: Bloody Twins
  • QuinRose
  • Mamenosuke Fujimaru
Related to Alice in the Country of Hearts [17] [43]
2009 Blood Lad Yūki Kodama [44]
2009 Attack on Titan Hajime Isayama [45]
2009 Flowers of Evil Shūzō Oshimi [36]
2009 Mardock Scramble Tow Ubukata [2]
2009 The Limit Keiko Suenobu [26]
2009 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Yu Kinutani [46]
2009 Alice in the Country of Clover: Chesire Cat Waltz
  • QuinRose
  • Mamenosuke Fujimaru
Related to Alice in the Country of Hearts [47] [48]
2010 Is This a Zombie? Shinichi Kimura [29]
2010 Haganai
  • Yomi Hirasaka
  • Itachi
 [49]
2010 Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit
 [13] [50]
2010 Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal Shin Yoshida [17]
2011 Soul Eater Not! Atsushi Ohkubo [15]
2011 Puella Magi Madoka Magica
  • Magica Quartet
  • Hanokage
 [12]
2011 Soulless Gail Carriger [2]
2011 Pokémon: Black and White Hidenori Kusaka [10]
2011 Honey Darling Norikazu Akira [19] [51] [52]
2012 Infernal Devices
An OEL manga adaptation of the novel trilogy. [53] [54]

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