According to Oricon’s weekly sales report for November 23-29, the long-awaited 12th volume of Nagaru Tanigawa’s Haruhi Suzumiya light novel series released on November 25, Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokkan / The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya, sold 77,544 copies in its first week, becoming the top-selling bunko and light novel of the week in Japan.
Also, the Japanese general hybrid bookstore service “honto” has reported that The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya became No.1 in its weekly overall sales ranking for November 22-28.
The twitter post writes, “Taking the release of ‘The Intuition of Haruhi Suzumiya’ as an opprotunity, we’re very happy to see that more and more people are picking up the previous volumes of the series!!”