Naruto dominates GN list—again!

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Brigid Alverson

ICv2 lists BookScan’s top 20 graphic novels for March. Watchmen leads the list, but after that, it’s pretty manga-heavy, with Naruto dominating and Fruits Basket, Vampire Knight, Bleach, Rosario + Vampire, Negima, and Maximum Ride making single-volume showings as well.

Speaking of Fruits Basket, the Anime Pulse folks bid Tohru and the gang “sayonara” in their latest Manga Pulse podcast.

John Jakala would like to see some salaryman manga, please!

At the Hooded Utilitarian, Noah Berlatsky reflects further on his previous post about the Japanese self-image as reflected in manga and other media, and he also reprints his best-of list from The Comics Journal and makes some further notes on TCJ’s manga coverage.

Reviews Hisui and Narutaki of Reverse Thieves makes some interesting picks for their manga of the month: X-Day, by After School Nightmare creator Setona Mizushiro, and Addicted to Curry, which I don’t believe has been licensed here yet.

Lissa Pattillo on vol. 4 of Black Knight (Kuriousity)
Lori Henderson on vol. 2 of Cat-Eyed Boy (Comics Village)
Erin Jones on vol. 2 of Cross x Break (Mania.com)
Ed Sizemore on vols. 3-6 of Dragon Eye (Comics Worth Reading)
Sean T. Collins on Dragon Head (Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat)
Tom Batten on A Drifting Life (Brick Weekly)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 22 of Fruits Basket (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Matthew Alexander on vol. 3 of Ghost Talker’s Daydream (Mania.com)
Faith McAdams on vol. 9 of Kurohime (Animanga Nation)
Kris on Laugh Under the Sun (Manic About Manga)
Julie on vol. 1 of Negima!? neo (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Erica Friedman on vol. 1 of Otome Kikan Gretel (Okazu)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Slam Dunk (The Comic Book Bin)
Danielle Leigh on vol. 1 of Train*Train (Comics Should Be Good)
Melinda Beasi on vol. 1 of Your and My Secret (there it is, plain as daylight)

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 Naruto dominates GN list—again!

  1. Rainy says:
    April 2, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Actually X-Day has been licensed here but it looks like it was just a limited release since you have to buy is used. Our good friends as TokyoPop got it. And MangaPulse gave Fruba a surprising rating

  2. Tiamat's Disciple says:
    April 2, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Brigid thanks for linking to my Q&A qith Kurt Hassler yesterday. Following it i had another chat with him about Azumanga, and have posted his answers in a new post on my blog. Unfortunatly what we’re getting is NOT the new 10th Anniversary edition, but a retranslation and editing of the original.

    TD

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