Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, April 24-30
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Jaymie
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Oh My Yen.
So many surprises this week. Higurashi finally made the list again. Omamori Himari is actually popular! Yen Press beating Viz 7 to 3. Wow! |
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RestLessone
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Way to go Yen! 7 of the 10 titles!
I'm glad their releases are doing well. Hopefully they can nab a nice amount of TP licenses. And yay for Blue Exorcist! |
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Anime Remix
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Yay, Blue Exorcist is still hanging on there! I still need to buy volume 1 of that series... So glad I got into it last year! 
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FH14
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Wow Black Butler is really raking in the cash for Yen Press.
I imagine some of the Yen Press titles will fall off the list after first week sales, but I imagine at least one Black Butler title (and perhaps Maximum Ride and Highschool of the Dead) will remain. Its nice to see Blue Exorcist doing well too! I honestly wonder how many Tokyopop titles will be relicensed, never mind who gets the license. Going back to the beginning of January, the only titles they've had that have cracked the top ten are Alice in the Country of Hearts and Hetalia Axis Powers. Compare that to Viz - which has Bakuman, Black Bird, Bleach, Blue Exorcist, Claymore, D.Gray-man, Death Note, Dengeki Daisy, Detective Conan, Dogs, Fullmetal Alchemist, Library Wars: Love & War, Naruto, Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, One Piece, Ouran High School Host Club, RIN-NE, Rosario + Vampire season II, Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura, Skip Beat!, Stepping On Roses, Vampire Knight, and Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (23 titles) - and Yen Press - which has Black Butler, Highschool of the Dead, Higurashi: When They Cry, K-ON!, Maximum Ride, Omamori Himari, Pandora Hearts, Soul Eater, and Yotsuba&! (9 titles) - which have appeared in the top ten since then. (...and Kodansha has Akira and Digital Manga Publishing has Finder Series) Sorry for obnoxiously long post. |
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Ghstmtrx
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Always great to see Higurashi on the list. One of my favorite series ever.
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BigOnAnime
Encyclopedia Editor
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Omamori Himari made the list? Even as a fan I'm wondering how it managed to get on there. The cover maybe?
Also, wow, Yen Press beat out VIZ Media. VIZ Media has all the Shueisha and Shogakukan stuff (As manga published by them is distributed exclusive through VIZ Media), and Yen Press has Square Enix stuff. |
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Lizzie_B
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I would be surprised if OP came back on the charts. They did come back barely.
animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-02-18/new-york-times-manga-best-seller-list-february-6-12 Anyway, i'm glad for YP, looking forward for SE vol 6 |
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enurtsol
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Yen Press is probably earning more from Maximum Ride than from the other manga acquisitions combined.
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holangjai
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I'm not surprised to see some of these titles in the top 10. Since TP dropped out of contention when they decided to close their doors, their chart-topping titles would have to be taken down, letting some titles rank higher. The number of Yen titles is awesome btw, but that's just because Yen comes out with things at the end of the month. Next week, I predict the opposite, 3 Yen, 7 Viz.
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LKK
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I don't think so. If you classify Maximum Ride as manga, then you must also classify Yen Press' Twilight as manga. And that made boatloads of money for Yen Press. |
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enurtsol
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Those are not manga acquisitions. They made those. 
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LKK
Posts: 426 Location: Virginia, USA |
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True. I misunderstood what you were saying in your original post. I thought you meant that Maximum Ride was Yen Press' best seller. But I see now you meant that Maximum Ride was doing better than their manga, not that it was their best seller. |
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Agent355
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I hope Yen gives some ex-Tokyopop titles a chance. Certainly, with Yen's history of publishing more 4-koma titles than anyone else, Hetalia should stand a chance if its not in a licensing quagmire...
And "Alice in the Country of Hearts" is also up their alley, shojo-wise. In the meantime, glad that they're doing well these days! And I'm not worried about Viz, Dark Horse, or Vertical. They all have their share amount of awesome! |
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