Remember when this used to be a regular feature? Yeah, me either.
I can’t believe I got this long of a list on a week, seemingly, without Tokyopop or Viz releases. (Now, before you complain or ‘correct’ me, I’ll just note I’m not using Diamond’s release info but instead dates that are available to […]

In what I hope will become a longstanding tradition, once again I get to blatantly steal from helpfully re-print a selection from the readers’ comments on last week’s commentary:
Comment from Marfisa
: April 26, 2008, 12:18 pm
“Fullmetal Alchemist” was never serialized in the English-language edition of Shonen Jump, because it didn’t appear in Shonen Jump even […]

For those of you who haven’t read the Charts FAQ, my only vague, non-guaranteed guideline (no promises) is having the charts up by 8am Monday Morning.
–I’m all kinds of early this week. This aberration is not indicative of a new posting schedule, or even of an early post this week: The numbers happened […]

Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders (beta), Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga sales by Category
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Fye, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the Charts
Weekly Analysis and Commentary Posts
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Consolidated Online Sales Rankings
For the Week Ending 27 April 2008
Your Executive Summary and Index:
Manga Top 500
1. ↑1 (2) : Death […]

[commentary and actual analysis (oooh, shiny) on this week’s sales rankings]
I know you folks don’t bother to read comments, or any of my posts for that matter unless a kind friend of the blog happens to post a link, so I’ll take it as a given that you missed the discussion & commentary on last […]

I could write an entirely inappropriate entry–with crude analogies–about how the length and girth (and anchor tags, and self-referential linking) of the recently posted consolidated sales rankings article was almost too much for WordPress to handle, but somehow I managed to get the ‘one big post’ off without too much wrangling, and WordPress only complained […]

Consolidated Online Sales Rankings
For the Week Ending 20 April 2008
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Sources
Online Bookstores:
Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Borders (beta), Chapters of Canada, and Amazon’s Manga sales by Category
Other Sales Charts:
Amazon Hourly Bestsellers, Buy.com, Deepdiscount.com, Fye, Powell’s, Tower, and Virgin
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last week’s rankings
About the Charts
Weekly Analysis and Commentary Post
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Your Executive Summary and Index:
Manga Top 500
1. ↔0 (1) : Naruto […]

I’ve recently posted the new Manga 500 for this past week, now the fourth week in a row.
I make no guarantees (my New Year’s Resolution is still to post nothing to the blog) but in an effort to both streamline the process and make the charts more user-friendly, I’m asking for feedback from my readers.
Given […]

(commentary only tangentially related to the sales rankings and other charts posted this week)
Picking up from last week: I was riffing on “what is manga” and asked myself the question, “Are Light Novels Manga?”
From 6 April:
“Oooo… that last one is a good topic: why the prose output of Tokyopop & Seven Seas (& Viz, they’ve […]

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The “Midlist 500″ is a re-ranking of manga volumes after excluding all books from the top 5 Series: This week the top 5 are Naruto, Death Note, Bleach, Fruits Basket, and Fullmetal Alchemist (same as last week, it’ll be the same next week… c’mon kids. I know it’s on TV and […]

last week: link
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Who’s Winning? Well let’s find out, shall we?
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Publishers’ Scorecard
Manga from the Top 500 Volumes and Top 50 Series, by Publisher
for the week ending 13 April 2008
From the Manga Top 500:

801 Media 5
ADV 6
Aurora Deux 1
Berkley 1
Broccoli Boysenberry 1
CMX/Wildstorm/Minx 2

CMX 1
Minx 1

Collins & Brown 1
Dark Horse 16
Del Rey 43
DMP 12

DMP 4
DMP June 8

Go! Comi […]

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This chart uses the same scores assigned to books for the Manga Top 500, once removed: A weighted score is determined using the points from the top ranked volume of a given series as a base, and only adding one tenth of the scores for all other books in the series. […]

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The rankings are determined by taking sales charts from online booksellers and assigning points based on how titles rank. Higher rankings = higher scores.
It all starts with this Top 500: These rankings (and other data from the sources listed below) are then used to compile the Top 50 Series, the Publishers’ Scorecard, […]

Let’s just say you just linked in from some other comics blog and weren’t yet acquainted with all the numbery goodness I posted this afternoon. Well, you should start where I do, with the Top 500 Manga. From there it’s your pick, either to the Publishers’ Scorecard to see just how many titles on the […]

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After compiling the Top 500 Manga and the Top 50 Series, I filter one with the other to take a closer look at the rest of the list.
The “Midlist 500″ is a re-ranking of manga volumes after removing all listings from the top 5 Series: This week the top 5 are […]