Furuba in top 30

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Brigid Alverson

Uh-oh! I was lazy a few posts back and just picked up Love Manga’s recap of the USA Today top 150. So he and I both missed the big news of the week: Volume 14 of Fruits Basket debuted at number 29. Fortunately, ANN picked up on it. That’s a personal best for this book, and it seems like the general trend is that the series is doing better as it progresses. It’s time to start speculating about what will happen if a volume hits the top ten, or even the number one spot.

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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8 Responses to Furuba in top 30

  1. David Taylor says:
    August 10, 2006 at 10:02 am

    wow, that’s a first!

  2. Brigid says:
    August 10, 2006 at 10:04 am

    What, missing something on the Booklist? Not the first time for me.

    Or did you mean Furuba? I think it was inevitable after the last volume made number 36. That’s why I wanted to be the first one to mention the possibility of number 1!

  3. David Taylor says:
    August 10, 2006 at 10:30 am

    A bit of both… Guess I must be slacking off today!! ^.^

    You are a lot more optimisitc then myself that it was inevitable. 36 was pretty amazing for volume 13 and it doesn’t have say the power backing that Naruto is currently experiencing with Cartoon Network.

    As for the top 10? I really do believe that its a real possibility, but it will have to be a pretty amazing title that gets there.

  4. David Welsh says:
    August 10, 2006 at 10:43 am

    “As for the top 10? I really do believe that its a real possibility, but it will have to be a pretty amazing title that gets there.”

    My heart says Fruits Basket. My brain says Naruto.

  5. David Taylor says:
    August 10, 2006 at 11:04 am

    Well law of averages would say Naruto.

    Though in both cases it is only the last 2 volumes that have placed well into the Top 50, so I think it’s going to take a while before take the next leap upto the Top 10.

    Plus Naruto has been the consistantly better title in the USA Todays chart. Though secretly I’d love it, if it was another title that suddenly appeared and stormed into the charts. Now that would be interesting.

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  8. Tyson Drumm says:
    December 6, 2006 at 8:56 pm

    Well I have been a faithful furuba follower for quite some time now, so I do believe that it WILL hit top ten. Maybe not now but very soon. Seeing as how I have read up to volume TWENTY!!! after knowing what I know there is no doubt in my mind that furuba will not only hit the top ten, I go farther as to say that it will at least hit the top five. This series didn’t get this far for nothing; it is a damn good series. If you haven’t read it, well you sure are missing out on the best shoujo out there.
    (by the way this is coming from a male!)

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