Fullmetal Alchemist rules!

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

ICv2 has the scoop: FMA vol. 7 topped the BookScan graphic novels chart for the week ending May 7 as well as making number 100 in the USA Today Top 150. Death Note also made it to number 126 on the USA Today list.

ICv2 mixes up the numbers a bit, so I’m going to unscramble it and post the BookScan list:

1. Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 7
2. Death Note, vol. 5
3. Rurouni Kenshin, vol. 26
4. Tsubasa, vol. 9
5. Naruto, vol. 9
6. Kingdom Hearts, vol. 6
7. Fruits Basket, vol. 13
8. Black Cat, vol. 2
9. V for Vendetta
10: Naruto, vol. 1

Also noted:

All nine volumes of Naruto finished among the top 22 titles. Viz’s D Gray Man Vol. 1 is off to a great start, climbing to #14 in its third week of release.

I can testify to the strong pull of FMA, as we made a special trip to Borders to get it this week. It’s making the round of the 7th grade as I write this.

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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