May numbers, crunched

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Comic Book Resources has the May sales figures from comics stores, and it was another bleak month for manga. Samurai Executioner was the only manga to crack the top ten graphic novels list, with vol. 7 of Fullmetal Alchemist falling just short at number 12. Here are the top ten manga, with their rank on the top 100 graphic novels list in parentheses:

1 Samurai Executioner, vol. 10 (5)
2 Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 7 (12)
3 Negima, vol. 10 (23)
4 NGE Angelic Days, vol. 1 (25)
5 Tsubasa, vol. 9 (26)
(5.5?) Loveless, vol. 2 (31)
6 Ranma 1/2, vol. 34 (35)
(6.5?) Ai Yori Aoishi, vol. 13 (36)
7 Naruto, vol. 10 (37)
8 Samurai Heaven & Earth (43)
9 Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 4 (?)
10 XXXHolic, vol. 7 (46)

Several things are weird about these numbers: Vol. 2 of Loveless, which I could have sworn just came out, shows up on the top 100 list but not the manga list (and yes, I know there’s another Loveless; this is the Tokyopop one). Same thing with Ai Yori Aioshi. And I couldn’t find Vampire Hunter D on the top 100 list. Maybe they’ve hired a new intern at Diamond.

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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