Although the best-of lists started coming out months ago, people are now beginning to summarize 2007 in earnest. Here’s what I found in the mangaverse.
Kai-Ming Cha lists the ten best manga of 2007. Topping the list: Tekkonkinkreet, which also picked up five votes in their critics’ poll of all comics.
Simon Jones says that Aurora Publishing is the biggest story of 2007, because it shows that Japanese publishers are taking an interest in setting up shop in North America, rather than simply licensing titles. And he predicts more for 2008; Ed Chavez agrees in comments.
The votes are in at About.com, where Deb Aoki lists the year’s best manga in several categories.
David Welsh looks at all the fun comics that came out in 2007.
Jog’s top-ten list includes two manga, Mushishi and Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms.
ChunHyang72 lists her ten favorite Tokyopop titles of 2007.
ComiPress posts Oricon’s top ten manga of 2007.
Khursten looks back at 2007 at Otaku Champloo.
At Comics-and-more, Dave Ferraro lists the five worst comics of the year, and Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time makes number one. And Mushishi makes Patrick Markfort’s list of his favorite comics of the year.
The Manga Recon folks present an index of all their reviews from 2007 and a report card on the past two months.
Tangognat and Kethylia review what they read in 2007. At Coffeeandink, Mely lists her December books, and she has already started her 2008 list.
At The Beat, Heidi talks to various comics pros, including Rikki Simons, about the year just completed.
In case I missed anything, ComiPress has a roundup of retrospectives.
Jog’s list has three manga if you count New Engineering as manga (and not as insane, experimental weirdness) :)