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smoochy
Joined: 30 Oct 2005
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Location: Texas
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:41 pm
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Isn't this the highest a manga has ever made it on the best sellers list? I'm really looking forward to five years in the future to seeing manga dominating the list.
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LydiaDianne
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 12:53 pm
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Well, to be philosophical about the entire thing, good things don't last forever and new books come out every week.
But still: FRUITS BASKET WAS #15!!!! That is still cause for bragging rights.
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Deltakiral
Joined: 07 Oct 2004
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Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK)
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:04 pm
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smoochy wrote: | Isn't this the highest a manga has ever made it on the best sellers list? |
Yes originally Naruto was the record holder but now Fruit Basket holds that title. I am really surprised by Fruit Basket success, perhaps I should check it out.
smoochy wrote: | I'm really looking forward to five years in the future to seeing manga dominating the list. |
I really wonder about that, I mean are we just having great manga out now that lots of people are buying or is this a statement that the manga market is growing? It's kind of like how so many people learned about anime via DBZ and how there was a lot people who stuck around anime and there were plenty of people who didn't get into anime/they only liked DBZ.
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Inuyasha&Kyoaremine-N
Joined: 18 Jan 2007
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:16 pm
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I've never even heard of some of these books, then again I'm only 12 soooo iif thy are adult books then..... oviously I've never heard of them! Anyways gooooo Fruits Basket!!!!!
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Samurai Drifter
Joined: 19 Nov 2005
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:58 pm
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smoochy wrote: | Isn't this the highest a manga has ever made it on the best sellers list? I'm really looking forward to five years in the future to seeing manga dominating the list. |
I highly doubt that's going to happen, ever. Fruits Basket is the best selling manga ever released in America, and this is the only best-seller list it's been on, and the highest it's made it to was #15, for one week. The vast majority of manga sells under 10,000 copies, and would be considered a dismal failure by anyone not in the anime/manga industry.
Fruits Basket (and, I guess, Naruto too, though the show is achieving a DBZ-like popularity so it's more understandable) is a stand-alone success.
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Jamee
Joined: 06 May 2006
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Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:27 pm
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You know, I posted on the manga forums a little while ago asking why Naruto's entries into the top 100 hundred list weren't being reported anymore on this site and the answer I got was that people are sick of Naruto and don't want to hear about it anymore. Well, some of us are sick of Fruits Basket, but ANN still reports on it.
I'm so sick of Naruto bashers.
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