Weekly Top Ten – November 8, 2014
Top Ten / November 9, 2014

Every week, Viz Media and the New York Times posts the top ten bestselling books. For Viz Media, it is the bestsellers on their site, Vizmanga.com. The New York Times gets their numbers of print sales from retailers. Offered here is a listing of these books with their status this week compared with the previous week, and some way-off analysis of the activity.   Vizmanga.com for the week of October 28, 2014 All You Need Is Kill Vol 1     ↔ Future Diary Vol 7     ∗ Kyo Kara MAOH! Vol 2     ∗ All You Need Is Kill Vol 2     ↓ 2 Naruto Vol 67     ↓ 2 Hikaru no Go Vol 1     ↵ Hikaru no Go Vol 2     ↵ Death Note Vol 1     ↵ Death Note Vol 2     ↵ Trinity Blood Vol 8     ∗ With the Obata sale coming to an end, the first volumes of most of his titles surge onto the list. Hikaru no Go returns with the first two volumes as does Death Note. All You Need Is Kill vol 1 keeps the top spot while volume 2 takes a tumble-down two. Naruto just keeps a hold on the…

Manga Dome Podcast Episode 10: From the Bottom of the Pile
Podcast , Reviews / June 16, 2013

This week I check out the ranking from Bookscan for May, the Vizmanga top 10 and other happenings, the new manga streaming site Manga Reborn and do some short reviews of three manga titles; Until Death Do Us Part vol 2, Rurouni Kenshin Restoration vol 1, and Kingdom Hearts Final Remix vol 1-2. http://archive.org/download/MangaDomeEpisode10/MangaDomeEpisode10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download

This Week in Manga 2/6-2/12/10
News / February 14, 2010

Moveable Manga Feast Moves Out In a massive collaboration, several blogs have gotten together to review the same book on the same week, as suggested by David Welsh of the Manga Curmudgeon blog.  It kicked off this week, with Sexy Voice and Robo, with new reviews going up every day.  You can find an introduction to the book and all the reviews posted here.  From the long list of reviews, this turned out to be a big success with such a wide breadth of reviews, both good and bad.  This is a shining example of the power of social media.  An idea on Twitter became a week long celebration (or panning) of a title, bringing together the mangasphere.  I just think that’s cool.