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RAmmsoldat
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some of the later voulumes of twin spica are 2 in 1 volumes too but its one of the reasons i just counted omnibus volumes as 1 because i have a fair few viz ones that are 3 in 1
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Buster Blader 126
 Posts: 1207 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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In alphabetical order:
ADV: 12 Bandai: 2 CMX: 10 Dark Horse: 20 Del Rey/Kodansha: 73 DMP (in this case, Project-H): 2 DrMaster/ComicsOne: 2 + 1 Novel Fantagraphics (both labels): 4 (Wandering Son & Love Selection!) Infinity Studios: 2 (Unbalance x Unbalance!) Tokyopop: 54 + 1 Novel Udon: 1 Vertical: 51 Viz: 397 + 1 Novel Yen Press (including Ice Kunion & Little, Brown): 16 + 14 Novels Totals also include manhwa, artbooks and novels. A chunk of those lower-numbered publishers are a result of one series. ADV = Cromartie, CMX = Emma, DrMaster = Please Teacher!, etc. Viz consisting 60% of my collection isn't a huge surprise. 
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Princess_Irene
ANN Associate Editor
 Posts: 2672 Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City |
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I took a cursory look at the first shelf of manga I have - keeping in mind that I have seven more bookcases full, books on loan to each sister, and more in another location, and came up with this:
Go Comi: 18 DMP/June: 4 Star Comics: 5 (Italian) FC: 18 (Japanese) Bamboo Comics: 1 (Chinese) J'ai Lu: 8 (French) Akata: 7 (French) Viz: 59 Manga Player: 5 (French) Dr. Master: 5 Tonkam: 44 (French) Del Rey/Kodansha: 33 TokyoPop: 59 CMX: 14 Tsuki Poche: 3 (French) Planet Manga: 3 (Italian) Kana: 25 (French) ADV: 1 Danbi: 5 Yen Press: 2 It's interesting to me that my Viz and TP counts are tied with Tonkam a close third; a quick glance shows that while the Del Rey/Kodansha count is likely to increase a lot with xxxHolic and Tsubasa factored in, those other three are pretty consistent. (In fact, I believe I only have two more Kana volumes, my Rose of Versailles omnibuses.) Obviously the YP count will go up; I'll try and get back to this because it appeals to my inner librarian. |
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RAmmsoldat
Posts: 1261 Location: North wales coast |
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Reet so i did a lil looksee at all my series and stand alones and checked what demographic they're listed as.
Of my books 44 series or stand alones are Shonen 8 are Shojo 52 are seinen and only 1 is classed as josei (honey and clover) I was just surprised that stuff like Yotsuba& is classed as seinen, guess it all boils down to which magazine ran it. |
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victor viper
 Posts: 630 Location: The deep south |
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Here goes. The totals are manga with artbooks listed separately. Omnibuses count as one volume.
ADV: 19 Bandai: 9 Broccoli: 17 CPM: 8 Dark Horse: 31 Del Rey/Kodansha: 55 DrMaster: 6 Infinity Studios: 1 Seven Seas: 37 Tokyopop: 46 + 2 artbooks Udon: 4 artbooks Vertical: 2 + 1 artbook Viz: 37 + 1 artbook Yen Press: 38 I did realize that a large portion of my ongoing series these days are Seven Seas, and I'd forgotten how many Broccoli titles I owned (although most of it is Galaxy Angel and Di Gi Charat). |
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Ensof
 Posts: 70 Location: Meifumadō |
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Yeah, the demographic of a series can be pretty arbitrary. For example, for years I assumed Blood Alone and Gunslinger Girl were seinen, until I discovered that they both ran in the shounen magazine Comic Dengeki Daioh. To add to the confusion, Blood Alone then moved to Evening, which is a seinen magazine. Another example is MPD Psycho, which you’d think could only be seinen, but ran for a time in Shounen A. The border between shoujo and josei can be just as blurry. Anyway, I muddled through my own breakdown. With some series it was pure guesswork – Tenken, for example, never ran in a magazine. In cases where there was confusion, I just subjectively stuck it in the category the title “felt” most like. Seinen: 134 Shounen: 30 Shoujo: 18 Josei: 4 (but not Sakuran - it turned out to be seinen) Yuri: 1 (Girl Friends) Artbooks: 1 (the Robot series) The seinen total is skewed a bit because the series tend to be shorter and most single-volume, alternative/arthouse titles fall under that demographic. If I were to tally by number of volumes then shounen and shoujo would be better represented. Still, there’s no denying that seinen is most of what I read. It also explains why I had a relatively high percentage of Dark Horse volumes. |
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yotsubafanfan
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9 are from ADV (One omnibus, and 8 regular manga's)
11 are from Kondasha (The Sailor V series and all the Sailor Moon manga's that have been released in the states so far.) 2 are from Tokyo Pop (Both are Axis Powers Hetalia) and I don't own this manga series but I've read it over and over at school, but its published by Shoujo beat. And about 14 books from Yen Press. (I buy tons of books from them since they're the main publisher for Slice of Life books.) |
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Alan45
 Village Elder Posts: 10071 Location: Virginia |
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This was an interesting exercise. The first thing I had to do was bring my list up to date. I hadn’t revised it since September 5th. As with others the most volumes came from Viz.
Viz: 1345 Tokyo Pop: 950 Del Rey: 269 Dark Horse: 256 CMX: 214 Yen Press: 205 Kodansha: 118 Go Comi: 87 Seven Seas: 78 CPM: 74 DMP: 64 Vertical: 49 Dr. Master: 42 Studio Iron Cat: 29 Broccoli Books: 19 Raijin: 19 Anime Works: 15 Bandai: 14 Aurora: 8 Udon: 4 Fantigraphics: 3 Infinity: 3 Luv Luv: 2 Total: 3961. The titles from Del Rey that were continued by Kodansha are listed under Kodansha. Dr. Master includes any volumes started by Comics 1st. The above list does not include any Korean or Chinese titles, Japanese language volumes, novels, or art books. It also does not include the manga collected in comic book format. None of these have been cataloged. |
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st_owly
 Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Comics One: 1
Dark Horse: 15 (CLAMP omnibuses and Bride of the Water God) Del Rey/Kodansha: 122 (97 are completed/the series was originally started by Del Rey) DMP: 14 DokiDoki: 8 Go Comi: 18 June: 24 Including 3 novels. Last Gasp: 1 Seven Seas: 16 Including the Strawberry Panic novels. SuBLime: 2 (Awkward Silence) Tokyopop (inc 3 by BLU): 211 Includes 3 artbooks. Vertical: 23 (12 of which are Twin Spica) Viz: 462 (the majority of which are Shojo Beat) Includes 3 novels (Battle Royale, Socrates in Love and Kamikaze Girls) Includes 4 artbooks. Yen Press: 107 including Ice Kunion and Little Brown (Haruhi novels) I also have the Spice and Wolf novels. All DMP imprints total (DMP, June and DokiDoki): 46 As expected, Viz dominates my collection. When I have more time I'll break down Viz imprint by imprint. The list includes translated artbooks, novels and manhwa as well. Omnibuses are counted as 1 volume, regardless of how many volumes the series was originally. |
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Brainchild129
Posts: 308 |
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Ok, I'll bite. So I've got 297 volumes total, and for the sake of simplicity I'm counting omnibuses as a single volume, since there's so much variability in volume content. Anyway:
Viz: 84 Tokyopop: 73 Del Ray/Kodansha: 49 Dark Horse: 29 Yen Press: 26 Vertical: 14 DMP: 12 GoComi: 6 DramaQueen: 3 Deux: 1 Not suprisingly, Viz and Tokyopop top the list, which isn't surprising considering my love of shoujo and the presence of longer series like FMA and Fruits Basket. Del Ray/Kodansha had a strong showing, mostly thanks to Sailor Moon, xxxHolic, and Tsubasa. Most of the Dark Horse volumes are in omnibus form (more CLAMP and Gunsmith Cats), although there's 6 volumes of Hellsing that could easily overlap with DMP. Vertical and DMP had good showings, although Vertical's numbers will grow as I finish up getting Twin Spica and Chi's Sweet Home and start getting To Terra and Andromeda Stories and DMP's would be much lower if not for The Tyrant Falls in Love. The rest are single series showings (Afterschool Nightmare for GoComi, Challengers for DQ, and some est em for Deux). Actually, let's break this down by series: Viz: 12 Tokyopop: 10 Dark Horse: 8 Yen Press: 7 Del Ray/Kodansha: 6 Vertical: 5 DMP: 3 GoComi: 1 DramaQueen: 1 Deux: 1 Hmm, not much difference beyond some of the stuff in the middle. |
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st_owly
Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Viz by imprint (number of series)
Viz: 3 (07-Ghost, Loveless and FMA) SigIkki: 1 (House of 5 Leaves) Shonen Jump/Advanced: 4 Shojo Beat: 51 "Shojo": 5 (X, Hot Gimmick, Sensual Phrase, Alice 19th and Fushigi Yuugi) Shonen Sunday: 1 (Kekkaishi) SuBLime: 1 (Awkward Silence) Volumes per imprint: Viz: 11 SigIkki: 2 Shonen Jump: 36 Shojo Beat: 346 "Shojo": 52 Shonen Sunday: 2 SuBLime: 2 Shojo Beat dominates, as I expected. I also broke down my Yen Press Collection, and 16 volumes of that are IceKunion, and 7 are Little Brown. |
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Vertical_Ed
Company Representative
Posts: 278 Location: New York, NY |
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I know I've said this before, but our contracts with Keiko Takemiya end this year. Andromeda goes into forced OOP in June and To Terra does the same in December. We will recall and scrap books as requested by Ms Takemiya at those points in time. So grab them books ASAP. |
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st_owly
Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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Thanks for the warning, Ed. I presume you're not at liberty to disclose why?
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zawa113
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Aww, man, that's sad, To Terra is just so good! Shame to scrap perfectly awesome books
 Glad I got mine. But this is totally more proof why Vertical is awesome, because Ed is warning us with enough time to get them. Most companies, it's like "surprise! It's OOP!" but man, the Twin Spica news let me get like 6 people to buy the series before it was too late (several of whom are on here and totally owe me,  jk)
Anyway, st_owly, you've made me curious to do my own Viz check. The way I'm doing it is that some series (like Kekkaishi) may have started off in the action line, but then once they introduced the Shonen Sunday line, went to there, so I'm counting all volumes for it in the final line that it's in (because any reprints would have that spine, right?) Viz series Action/ Big "V" line: 73 vols (5 series) line highlight: Firefighter Daigo Shonen Sunday: 45 (2 series) line highlight: Kekkaishi Shonen Jump/Advanced: 84 (9 series, two of which are 1 vols) line highlight: Hikaru no Go Shojo line (Girl in the Moon): 90 (5 series) they are all line highlights it was one of my favorite lines in terms of high quality series: Banana Fish, Please Save My Earth, Basara, Here is Greenwood, From Far Away Shojo Beat: 27 vols (4 series) Signature/Editor's Choice: 46 vols (6 series, one is 1 vol) line highlights: Maison Ikkoku, Phoenix, Fumi Yoshinaga goodness Sig IKKI: 26 vols (4 series) Viz Kids: 5 vols (1 series) Too old to be in any specific line/in a defunt line: 17 vols (6 series, 3 of which are one vols) Seriously, where do I put Sanctuary? I wasn't expecting so many Shonen Jump series honestly. Then I realized that Tegami and Blue Exorcist are ongoing. I think the longest SJ series I have is Dr. Slump at 18 vols I kinda expected the Girl in the Moon Shojo line to have a lot of books, I might not have many series, but they're pretty long series, much longer than the average length of series I have. I've only recently started warming up to the Shojo Beat line, believe it or not. After they finally stopped making all the spine fonts identical was when I started to pay attention I guess. But it's so very different from the Shojo Moon line if you ask me. All the Shojo Moon line series I have are no older than the 90s, the youngest Beat line I have is the 00s, and they're totally different types of shojo, so I'm not surprised I'm more picky on the Beat line than I was for the Moon line. Because only one of my Moon line series (Here is Greenwood) is a school series, the others are fantasy or badass mafia drama. Shonen Sunday line isn't that large, but Kekkaishi is the single longest series I own (not the largest franchise, that's all the GTO, but the Tezuka Shrine still takes up the single largest space for one single organized thing and I am frightened as I am almost out of space). Of course, I'd assume these would have been in the Action line had they not made a Shonen Sunday imprint for what appears to be no reason. I thought the Action/V line would have more, and if I had counted the half of the Kekkaishi books I have with that spine, it probably would be. Also has a low number of series that I really really like. Sig and Sig Ikki had a larger showing than I expected somehow. I think Maison Ikkoku and Phoenix bump up the numbers as they're the longest ones there. Overall, I think it's far more balanced a spread than I expected, both between some of the lines and the shonen, shojo, and seinen demographics (yeah, no one publishes too much josei quite yet). Of course, half of my shojo could be mistaken for seinen or shonen (like Banana Fish), so I'm not as into shojo as the numbers might seem, lol |
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st_owly
Posts: 5234 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland |
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There are a few older things kicking around in Shojo Beat. Baby and Me immediately springs to mind, as does the original Earl Cain Series and Kaze Hikaru.
I also counted things by final line, so like you, Kekkaishi is in the Shonen Sunday line. I've only got 2 volumes of it, and I wasn't that impressed by it. Does it get much better? I know you really like it, classicalzawa and I trust your tastes coughTwinSpicacough 
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