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NEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, October 10-16




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alonsorules8



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:49 pm Reply with quote
Wow I thought Cross Game would have broken into the top ten this week.
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SonicRenegade84



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:41 pm Reply with quote
Good to see Naruto on there (since the manga is actually good) and nice to see Hetalia still holding on.
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:44 pm Reply with quote
alonsorules8 wrote:
Wow I thought Cross Game would have broken into the top ten this week.

The only way a sports manga would ever make it into the top 10 manga best seller list is if it's full of bishounen (Prince of Tennis).

The masses don't want to read a well written coming of age tale. They want to stare at hawt guys and hawt girls and/or see people fighting.
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Jaymie



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:49 pm Reply with quote
sports manga are a thing of the past. look at weekly shonen jump. sports manga are canceled left and right in that magazine. its a wonder that kuroko no basket is going so strongly (but it also has hot, sweaty bishonen...).
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:09 pm Reply with quote
I wouldn't say that sports manga is a thing of the past what with Cross Game's last volume selling 200k+ copies
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Scormio





PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:03 am Reply with quote
Yen Press is releasing Soul Eater 4, Black Butler 3, Pandora Hearts 3, and Omamori Himari 1 (which I REALLY hope sells well, and may, because of the recent anime) all this week, so hopefully we'll see (in 2 weeks) a lot of them on the list. Or just not Viz.
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yblees



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2010 3:37 am Reply with quote
Jaymie wrote:
sports manga are a thing of the past. look at weekly shonen jump. sports manga are canceled left and right in that magazine. its a wonder that kuroko no basket is going so strongly (but it also has hot, sweaty bishonen...).

Razz
I disagree with your general statement, based on a sample size of one sports manga - All Rounder Meguru.
I admit, it's the only sports manga I've ever read, or am likely to - but it absolutely, amazingly Rocks!
It hardly has any bishies either.... ok maybe a couple, if muscular ones count, and it's not published in shonen jump ....
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