It’s top ten time!

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

It’s always news when ICv2 brings out one of their anime/manga guides. The latest one is out and while it doesn’t contain anything quite as juicy as the power list, there are a few interesting nuggets. Here’s their list of the top ten manga properties:

1. Naruto
2. Fruits Basket
3. Kingdom Hearts
4. Bleach
5. Fullmetal Alchemist
6. Death Note
7. Loveless
8. Absolute Boyfriend
9. Black Cat
10. Tsubasa

This being ICv2, the guide apparently features lots of charts, but they let slip the bottom line figures: 1,461 volumes of manga are scheduled to be published in 2007, up from 1224 in 2006 and 1026 in 2005. Also, the number of manga-related novels has more than doubled (they boosterishly call it a “more than 100% increase,” which sounds bigger).

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 It’s top ten time!

  1. Jack says:
    February 8, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    That’s a list lacking pretentious academic picks… very representative of what people actually buy — CONGRATULATIONS!

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