Top sellers and new releases

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Brigid Alverson

At MangaCast, Ed Chavez looks at the BookScan’s top-selling manga for the past week and sorts them according to publisher and demographic.

In his latest trip to the grandma’s attic of manga, Jason Thompson unearths another horror classic, Demon City Hunter.

In a more modern vein, ANN has a roundup of new manga on handheld devices. This month, Animate is launching five yaoi titles, including an exclusive by Youka Nitta, on Kindle; a Japanese company, Recruit, has a new iPhone app that displays manga in English; and NTT Solmare has announced several titles, including Appleseed and Cyborg 009, will be released through the Nokia Ovi store this month.

Reviews

Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Akira (I Reads You)
Kate Dacey on vols. 1 and 2 of Apollo’s Song (The Manga Critic)
Christopher Butcher on vol. 1 of Bakuman (About.com)
Bill Sherman on Chibi Vampire: Airmail (Blogcritics)
Briana Lawrence on Finder, vol. 1: Target in the Viewfinder (Mania.com)
Sean Gaffney on vol. 4 of Karakuri Odette (A Case Suitable for Treatment)
AstroNerdBoy on vol. 8 of Kitchen Princess (AstroNerdBoy’s Anime and Manga Blog)
Penny Kenny on vol. 21 of Nana (Manga Life)
Kiki Van De Camp on vol. 8 of Sand Chronicles (Animanga Nation)

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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4 Responses to Top sellers and new releases

  1. Ingraman says:
    September 2, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    The link to the Karakuri Odette review is missing (along with the blog/website name). ^_^;

  2. lys says:
    September 2, 2010 at 5:30 pm

    The review is here: http://suitablefortreatment.blogspot.com/2010/09/karakuri-odette-volume-4.html at A Case Suitable for Treatment. I’m sure it was just a typo!

  3. Brigid says:
    September 3, 2010 at 5:23 am

    Thanks! I got distracted yesterday and thought I had finished it. I fixed the link now.

  4. Cait says:
    September 4, 2010 at 12:27 am

    Someone should let Briana know that she misspelled “Libre” in her Finder review (twice), and only sort of got the history right (I’d do it, but I am not a Mania member and don’t feel like creating an account for one comment). Libre didn’t buy out Biblos, they bought the bulk of their BL catalog. Biblos went bankrupt themselves. A number of their titles reverted back to the original authors and were republished by other companies (like Makoto Tateno’s Yellow, which was picked up by Enterbrain, who created those beautiful omnibuses that DMP rereleased earlier this year). And CPM was an anime company first, then a manga company, and their downfall was more closely related to the Musicland bankruptcy that became the sounding bell for the anime bubble burst a few years back (the liquidation was only finalized last year, it was evident by 2007).

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