Fruits Basket breaks the Booklist top 20

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

Here’s today’s big news: vol. 16 of Fruits Basket moves to number 15 on the USA Today Booklist. Unless I’m missing something, that’s the best showing ever for a manga; Naruto‘s peak position so far was 21 (for vol. 11) The current volume of Naruto, vol. 13, drops from 84 to 118 on this week’s list.

MangaCast has the Diamond Previews list for July and August, and at the top of the list is… Yotsuba&! For those who can’t wait that long, the gang goes over this week’s new comics and pull out their favorites. Ed also has PR on vol. 4 of Lunar Legend Tsukihime from DRMaster.

Otaku Champloo visits a manga cafe in the Philippines and comes back with some recommended reading. Also: The 4th Lights Out Yaoi Convention is next month.

Reviews: Active Anime’s Holly Ellingwood reviews vol. 3 of Black Knight. Mangamaniac Julie enjoys vol. 13 of Fullmetal Alchemist. At the MangaCast, Ed Chavez reviews two global BL titles, Paintings of You and Only Words. At PopCultureShock, Katherine Dacey-Tsuei reviews vols. 1-4 of R.O.D. Read or Dream.

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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