For reference: our #1 title this week, Fruits Basket vol. 17, is #76 on the USA Today Top 150, which covers all books, even the ones without pictures in them. Also on the UT150 are Naruto vols. 18 (at #116), 17 (at #123), and 16 (at #131). Oddly enough, our rankings have the […]

Watch List: Manga et. al. for 26 August to 1 September 2007
This hasn’t been a good week for me. You almost certainly don’t care. On the off chance that you haven’t already obtained this information from one of a half dozen or so blogs, or if you were waiting impatiently for the other […]

Enough foreplay, here’s the
Manga (& Manga-ish) Releases for 19 August to 25 August 2007

Animerica, Fall 2007 — Viz — free from select retailers
Beauty Pop, vol 5 — Viz — $8.99
Black Cat, vol 10 — Viz — $7.99
Boy Princess, vol 8 — Netcomics — $9.99
Dr. Slump, vol 13 — Viz — $7.99

Gentleman’s Alliance†, vol 3 — […]

Alas, I dropped TRSI as a source this week, not because they don’t do enough volume or the information is bad, but because their weekly specials skew their sales numbers too much (all 10 of their top ten titles were DH manga that was on sale last week)
In slightly more upbeat news: hey, did […]

Naruto volumes 16, 17, and 18 — with an official release date of September 4th — are already in warehouses now, and folks like Amazon or BN.com could likely get them to you by this Friday if you were willing to pay extra for next-day shipping.
Other Viz titles also showed up when I checked them, […]

Some of these book titles are getting out of hand: I think the longest title this week is from Virgin, clocking in at 10 words — though there is the new Trinity Blood novel with two, count ‘em, two subtitles that is 12 words long or so, depending on how one counts the articles, prepositions, […]

I was one of a handful that attended the newly-christened Great American Bargain Book Show on Friday morning (they’ve been doing business as Name That Show this year, while a moniker was being selected) and while bargain books are in fact one of the departments I supervise at my big box, I wasn’t necessarily there […]

Edit 2pm, 10 Aug.: This is what I get for posting at 3:30 in the morning — please note the corrected score and rank for Tsubasa in the series rankings; it’s #6, not #2. Even with the sloppy error and lack of sleep, let me just say it was worth it, because I got […]

Kitchen Princess, vols. 1 & 2

Manga by Natsumi Ando
Story by Miyuki Kobayashi
Published by: Del Rey
208 pages each, 358 net.
Original Language: Japanese
Orientation:  Right to Left
Vintage: 2005. US editions January & April 2007.
Translation: Satsuki Yamashita
Adaptation: Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir
Lettering: North Market Street Graphics
Original cover design by Aiko Omo
Publisher’s Rating:  T, ages 13+
Rating: 3 out of 5
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Premise:  […]

Manga (& Manga-ish) Releases for 5 August to 11 August 2007

Blade of Heaven, vol. 10 — Tokyopop — $9.99
Blame! vol. 9 — Tokyopop — $9.99
Boys Be, vol. 14 — Tokyopop — $9.99
The Devil Does Exist, vol. 11 — CMX — $9.99
Genju no Seiza, vol. 4 — Tokyopop — $9.99

Grenadier, vol. 4 — Tokyopop — $9.99
Initial […]

So I did a little checking, and Chapters actually does more business than Books-a-million. Who knew the Canadians liked their books so much? We’ll be upgrading their impact in these rankings — it’s a minor change, but worthwhile. See my end notes for the math…
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings for 3 August
“Facts […]