Manga does well in March

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Newsarama has Diamond’s direct market sales figures for March. At Precocious Curmudgeon, David Welsh pulls out the top selling manga. Here’s the top ten, with placement on the overall graphic novels list in parentheses:

1 (2) NARUTO VOL 13 (Viz)
2 (7) DEATH NOTE VOL 10 (Viz)
3 (10) WARCRAFT VOL 3 (Tokyopop)
4 (17) BERSERK VOL 16 (Dark Horse)
5 (50) BATTLE CLUB VOL 4 (Tokyopop)
6 (51) TRINITY BLOOD VOL 2 (Tokyopop)
7 (53) FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST VOL 12 (Viz)
8 (62) GUNSMITH CATS OMNIBUS VOL 1 (Dark Horse)
9 (68) CRYING FREEMAN VOL 5 (Dark Horse)
10 (69) ALCOHOL SHIRT & KISS VOL 1 (Digital Manga)

It was a good month for manga, which doesn’t usually place in the top ten graphic novels list (remember, this is the direct market, i.e. comics stores). And I’ll second David’s observation that BL and yaoi seem to be doing well, which makes for some strange bedfellows (i.e. Crying Freeman right next to Alcohol Shirt & Kiss).

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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2 Responses to Manga does well in March

  1. Tina Anderson says:
    April 15, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    But Alco-Kiss is #69. *insert immature laughter*

  2. mangaijin says:
    April 16, 2007 at 8:44 am

    speaking of Crying Freeman, I hope DH (or someone) has plans to reprint Sanctuary

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