Top ten lists

Posted on October 4, 2005 by Brigid Alverson

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.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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One Response to Top ten lists

  1. Christopher says:
    October 4, 2005 at 9:33 am

    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!

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