Death Note 5 breaks top 150

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Volume 5 of the highly addictive Death Note made its debut at number 126 on this week’s USA Today top 150 list. Volume 4 of the series made it onto the list in March, spending one week at number 118.

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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3 Responses to Death Note 5 breaks top 150

  1. Jack says:
    May 11, 2006 at 7:24 am

    excellent! death note is a great introduction to more adult manga. or if anything the beautiful art should make people want to check it out.

  2. David Welsh says:
    May 11, 2006 at 7:38 am

    My pimping at the comic shop paid off! The clerk is now a devoted fan of Death Note. Maybe this is the big new crossover hit?

  3. Sasha says:
    May 31, 2006 at 8:13 pm

    hey i was reading Death Note volume 1-8 i was on volume 5 and now it doesnt let me read em..but do u know where else i can find them so i can read em….i like Death Note is was so addicting i read volume1-4 in one day so if u could help me out as to where i can start reading them again

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