The watch list is late because there’s just so much stuff on this week’s list:
Quite a few non-manga comic titles, some interesting art books (one on Degas & Japan, another on urban graffiti), a nifty reprint (and this year’s second-best book title) coming from Global Oriental, “The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Kyoto, […]

Sunday is Sales Day: I’ve been running the numbers on Sunday mornings for a while now, and it seems to work well with my schedule (and it gives all you linkbloggers something to link to each Monday morning, so that’s… um… whatever it is. we’ll call it a good thing)
Raw numbers this week: […]

last week’s rankings: link
Our new source this week is Powell’s Books; The Top 100 now draws from 8 different sites.
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 28 October 2007
“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.”
Sources:
Amazon — B&N –
Chapters (CA) — BAMM
Borders — Buy.com –
DeepDiscount.com — Powell’s Books
sources checked […]

last week’s rankings: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 28 October 2007
rank. (last wks. rank) Series Title (score)
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (1086.7)
2. ( ↔ 2) Vampire Knight (539.0)
3. ( ↔ 3) Fruits Basket (504.1)
4. ( ↑ 5) Death Note (452.2)
5. ( ↑ 6) Dark Hunger — Feehan (single volume) (412.0)
6. […]

The folks over at Viz are most skilled in the crafty 忍術のを売る漫画, also known as “the ancient and secret black art of separating kids from their money”
Someone somewhere in the Viz orgchart is most deserving of a raise, for the Naruto Nation push seems to have hit a sweet spot just short of exhausting the […]

If one were to cruise on over to the Wired Website (not the homepage, but the Nov. ‘07 Magazine page) and click on the Pink Haired Manga Chick (cropped from the cover to the newsstand edition) then you’d find yourself forwarded to the Daniel Pink article on the Manga Industrial Complex.
It’s a good article. […]

Pick of the Week
It’s almost like I have no other choice; with Miyasaki on the list, and original Miyasaki watercolours at that, even if I tried to pick something else the website would override me and only show Nausicaa anyway. (and why don’t I own the manga? That’s an oversight that will soon […]

More Data! Must have more data… the spreadsheets must be fed!
With a little sleuthing on my own, and through the kind offices and skilled help of UClue, I’ve got one new source this week, one lined up for next week, and some pretty good leads on at least two others. Whether I use […]

last week’s rankings: link
Consolidated Online Manga Sales Rankings
for the week ending 20 October 2007
“Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.”
Sources:
Amazon — B&N –
Chapters (CA) — BAMM –
Borders — Buy.com — DeepDiscount.com
sources checked 7pm Friday, 10am Saturday, & Midnight Sat/Sun. (see end notes)
Top 100 individual volumes
rank. (last wks. […]

last week’s rankings: link
Top 25 Manga Series, by online sales
for the week ending 20 October 2007
rank. (last wks. rank) Series Title (score)
1. ( ↔ 1) Naruto (835.7)
2. ( ↔ 2) Vampire Knight (495.6)
3. ( ↔ 3) Fruits Basket (435.9)
4. ( ↔ 4) Bleach (413.3)
5. ( ↑ 6) Death Note (355.8)
6. ( ↓ 5) Dark Hunger […]

To be more precise, November’s Wired features coverage of the manga industry, both in the US and abroad, though some of that coverage is in fact 10 whole right-to-left-reading pages of comics, smack dab in the middle of your techie news coverage.
The 10 pages of manga on manga were written by Jason Thompson (he’s received […]

New Toy. I have a scanner, and I’m not afraid to use it.
It didn’t work right out of the box. I had to ignore the install disc, download and reinstall drivers and software from Canon’s website, and go through some troubleshooting steps that I swear were the rough equivalent of “Have you tried […]

As part of the above-the-fold intro this week, I’m going to point you to three titles from Yen Press; first, because I missed them last week, and secondly, because these aren’t just new titles, Yen is still (for all intents and purposes) a brand new imprint.

Black God, vol 1 — Yen Press — $10.99
Spiral, vol […]

OK, so this week we have sales numbers in three flavours:
Top 100 manga volumes
Top 25 manga series, and
A Top 100 of Graphic Novels.
The GN numbers are new and shiny, but don’t become too enamoured of them: I only plan to post that monster once a month. (It’s not more difficult; I just don’t […]

Ides comes from Latin, and means “half division (of a month)” At least that’s what Wikipedia has to say on the matter. It’s either the 13th or the 15th, depending on the month, because the Romans were a little weird that way.
(Probably has something to do with paying bills: traditionally, interest on […]