The New York Times Manga Best Sellers of 2012
This is a list of notable manga series that appeared in The New York Times Manga Best Seller lists in 2012.
| Year | Title | Artist | Notes | Sources |
| Message to Adolf | Osamu Tezuka | |||
| ' | Tooru Fujisawa | |||
| Sailor Moon | Naoko Takeuchi | |||
| X | Clamp | |||
| Magic Knight Rayearth | Clamp | |||
| Case Closed | Gosho Aoyama | |||
| Neon Genesis Evangelion | Yoshiyuki Sadamoto | |||
| Pokémon Adventures | Hidenori Kusaka | |||
| Excel Saga | Rikdo Koshi | |||
| One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | |||
| Tenjho Tenge | Oh! great | |||
| Love Hina | Ken Akamatsu | |||
| 20th Century Boys | Naoki Urasawa | |||
| Dorohedoro | Q Hayashida | |||
| Naruto | Masashi Kishimoto | |||
| Tokyo Mew Mew | Reiko Yoshida | |||
| The Wallflower | Tomoko Hayakawa | |||
| ' | Yukito Kishiro | |||
| Fullmetal Alchemist | Hiromu Arakawa | |||
| Bleach | Tite Kubo | |||
| Twin Spica | Kou Yaginuma | |||
| Finder | Ayano Yamane | |||
| Skip Beat! | Yoshiki Nakamura | |||
| Genshiken | Shimoku Kio | |||
| Gunslinger Girl | Yu Aida | |||
| Ouran High School Host Club | Bisco Hatori | |||
| Air Gear | Oh! great | |||
| xxxHolic | Clamp | |||
| Dawn of the Arcana | Rei Tōma | |||
| Negima! Magister Negi Magi | Ken Akamatsu | |||
| Yotsuba&! | Kiyohiko Azuma | |||
| Loveless | Yun Kōga | |||
| Ghost in the Shell | Masamune Shirow | |||
| ' | Bohra Naono | |||
| The Tyrant Falls in Love | Hinako Takanaga | |||
| Soul Eater | Atsushi Ōkubo | |||
| D.Gray-man | Katsura Hoshino | |||
| Rosario + Vampire | Akihisa Ikeda | |||
| Kitchen Princess | ||||
| The Drops of God | Tadashi Agi | |||
| Chi's Sweet Home | Kanata Konami | |||
| Vampire Knight | Matsuri Hino | |||
| Bamboo Blade | Masahiro Totsuka | |||
| Black God | ||||
| Higurashi When They Cry | There are eight arcs in this series. | |||
| Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei | Kōji Kumeta | |||
| Jack Frost | JinHo Ko | |||
| ' | Osamu Takahashi | |||
| Fluffy, Fluffy Cinnamoroll | Yumi Tsukirino | |||
| The Betrayal Knows My Name | Hotaru Odagiri | |||
| Bunny Drop | Yumi Unita | |||
| The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya | Part of the Haruhi Suzumiya media franchise | |||
| Dance in the Vampire Bund | Nozomu Tamaki | |||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! GX | ||||
| Witch Hunter | Jung-Man Cho | |||
| Ninja Girls | Tanaka Hosana | |||
| Jormungand | Keitarou Takahashi | |||
| Pandora Hearts | Jun Mochizuki | |||
| Omamori Himari | Milan Matra | |||
| Ai Ore! | Mayu Shinjo | also Ai Ore! Love Me! | ||
| The Story of Saiunkoku | Sai Yukino | |||
| Highschool of the Dead | Daisuke Satō | |||
| House of Five Leaves | Natsume Ono | |||
| Young Miss Holmes | Kaoru Shintani | |||
| Fairy Tail | Hiro Mashima | |||
| ' | Hiroyuki Asada | |||
| Black Butler | Yana Toboso | |||
| Otomen | Aya Kanno | |||
| Black Bird | Kanoko Sakurakoji | |||
| A Certain Scientific Railgun | Kazuma Kamachi | |||
| Bloody Monday | Ryumon Ryo | |||
| ' | Kenji Kuroda | |||
| Oresama Teacher | Izumi Tsubaki | |||
| Toradora! | Yuyuko Takemiya | |||
| ' | Hiro Arikawa | |||
| Spice and Wolf | Isuna Hasekura | |||
| Alice in the Country of Hearts | ||||
| Dengeki Daisy | Kyousuke Motomi | |||
| Psyren | Toshiaki Iwashiro | |||
| Kamisama Kiss | Julietta Suzuki | |||
| ' | Hiroshi Shiibashi | |||
| Monster Hunter Orage | Hiro Mashima | |||
| The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan | Puyo | Part of the Haruhi Suzumiya media franchise | ||
| Maximum Ride | Narae Lee | |||
| The Earl and the Fairy | Mizue Tani | |||
| Bakuman | ||||
| ' | Yuu Watase | |||
| A Bride's Story | Kaoru Mori | |||
| Cage of Eden | Yoshinobu Yamada | |||
| ' | Arina Tanemura | |||
| March Story | ||||
| Arisa | Natsumi Ando | |||
| Blue Exorcist | Kazue Katō | |||
| Durarara!! | Ryohgo Narita | |||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's | Masahiro Hikokubo | |||
| Alice in the Country of Clover: Bloody Twins | Related to Alice in the Country of Hearts | |||
| Blood Lad | Yūki Kodama | |||
| Attack on Titan | Hajime Isayama | |||
| Flowers of Evil | Shūzō Oshimi | |||
| Mardock Scramble | Tow Ubukata | |||
| The Limit | Keiko Suenobu | |||
| ' | Yu Kinutani | |||
| Alice in the Country of Clover: Chesire Cat Waltz | Related to Alice in the Country of Hearts | |||
| Is This a Zombie? | Shinichi Kimura | |||
| Haganai | ||||
| Alice in the Country of Hearts: My Fanatic Rabbit | ||||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal | Shin Yoshida | |||
| Soul Eater Not! | Atsushi Ohkubo | |||
| Puella Magi Madoka Magica | ||||
| Soulless | Gail Carriger | |||
| ' | Hidenori Kusaka | |||
| Honey Darling | Norikazu Akira | |||
| Infernal Devices | An OEL manga adaptation of the novel trilogy. |