Christopher Butcher at Comics.212.net has lists of the 10 most popular manga and the “The 10 Great Manga They Don’t Want You To Read.” Five of the manga on the first list are read in my house: Fruits Basket, Rurouni Kenshin, DN Angel, Inu Yasha (but only by me) and Kare Kano, although I’m not sure why my kids haven’t picked up on Naruto. I suspect it’s too shonen for them. Most of the books on the second list look like they’re worth checking out. The only one I have read is Yotsuba, and I’m not sure who it is exactly that doesn’t want me to read it. Perhaps Chris is referring to the publisher, who for some reason doesn’t list Yotsuba on its website.
Actually, heh, I was referring to the publisher, as in addition to a startling lack of promotion and it not burning up the sales charts, volume 1 is apparently also out of print, severly impacting our ability to sell the series.
Thanks for linking the article though!