aside: did anyone else get the Tokyopop email advertising Naruto? (technically, I think they were advertising Naruto fan forums or some such over on Tokyopop.com, but still… I don’t know if we should applaud them for their audacity, or chide them for tying to fool some of the fan base — not all […]

last week’s rankings: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 29 September 2007
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (494.1)
2. ( ↔ 2) Fruits Basket (307.1)
3. ( ↔ 3) Bleach (299.2)
4. ( ↑ 5) Vampire Knight (226.7)
5. ( ↓ 4) Warriors (166.0)
6. ( ↑ 8 ) Death Note (147.8)
7. ( ↑ 20) Berserk (128.5)
8. […]

Anyone want to see a ranking for *all* graphic novels (not just the manga) using these same sources & methods? If no one cares, I’m not going to waste 3 hours doing it, but if even one person bothers to post a request in the comments, then I’ll do one tonight/tomorrow.
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last week’s rankings: link
Consolidated […]

Pick of the Week
(once again, not manga. No, I’m not running a fever.)

The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
128p, isbn 0439895294, Scholastic. $19.99 hardcover.
Wordless. Timeless. Classic. Not since the works of Lynd Ward has someone done so much with just the art. From the publisher:
On a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife […]

Hell of a week to be late with the release list. Though I can almost guarantee this will make you forgive me:
Pick of the Week
(and it’s not manga)

Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art.
114p, hardcover, published by Philomel Books, a division of Penguin. isbn 0399246002
Introduction by Eric Carle
The 23: […]

Pulse: Online Sales Recap for the Week Ending 23 September
Why do it four days late, on Thursday? Because it takes Nielsen BookScan, USA Today, and some unpaid intern four days to post their list, which is my only point of reference. (I’d love to see the charts cited in this ICv2 […]

I’ve been disparaging this book almost since I first heard of it. Neh, I have in fact been been bad-mouthing this book from the very first second I knew of its existence, and mighty reluctant to admit this aspirant into the manga fold — right up until a week or so ago. I’d […]

last week’s rankings: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 22 September 2007
Last week’s rank is shown in parentheses, when applicable.
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (498.5)
2. ( ↔ 2) Fruits Basket (255.3)
3. ( ↔ 3) Bleach (249.7)
4. ( ↑ 6) Warriors (187.8)
5. ( ↑ 7) Vampire Knight (172.9)
6. ( ↓ 4) Negima! […]

I had to take a brief break from other festivities this weekend to compile the numbers. (oh, joy.) Hell, I had to set an alarm on my cell phone (with a fair amount of lead time) to remind me to get to a place where I could get online, and load up the […]

From: Matt
To: Bob
RE: AWA
Well since I didn’t get a phone call asking me to pick you up at the airport, I’m guessing you’re not making it down to ATL for Anime Weekend Atlanta. It works out OK, I guess, since it seems we were left off the press pass list anyway — or at least […]

Prologue: This event is now 3 weeks past. In fact I wrote my field report the same weekend, but never posted it. After doing the writeup and going back to edit, well, nothing here seemed news-worthy. In fact, it sounds a little whiny, lacks a lot of details and facts, and is really just an […]

As has been noted everywhere by now (I saw it first on ComiPress) the latest USA Today Top 150 reveals that Naruto sales slipped last week,

#50 (previously #37) — Naruto vol 18
#72 (previously #65) — Naruto vol 17
#86 (previously #74) — Naruto vol 16

Viz doesn’t care, since they are still selling Naruto like mad, […]

Seems like ages since we last saw any releases from Netcomics (or maybe it was just my last orders of Netcomics titles took ages to get to me; six of one…) –Speaking of Netcomics I’ve a copy of 10, 20, 30 knocking around, I should review that one already.
Also checking in with us this week, […]

[whine]”but you just posted sales on Thursday“[/whine]
In case you missed the new subject lines (Top 100 and Top 25), online sales tracking is going to look a little different from now on. If numbers are good, more numbers are more better. The beefier lists allow us see a few series that otherwise would […]

Top 25 Series Online
for the week ending 15 September 2007
1. Naruto (523.6)
2. Fruits Basket (347.3)
3. Bleach (301.9)
4. Negima! (241.1)
5. Death Note (224.7)
6. Warriors (single volume) (174.0)
7. Vampire Knight (119.8)
8. Making Comics — Mccloud (117.0)
9. Ouran High School Host Club (111.2)
10. Fullmetal Alchemist (108.2)
11. Berserk (102.0)
12. Dark Hunger — Feehan (preorder) (single volume) (100.0)
13. My Paranoid […]