Forum - View topicNEWS: New York Times to Stop Publishing Bestseller Lists For Manga, Graphic Novels
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Koda89
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Aw this sucks. I always got a kick out of how every time a new volume of Monster Musume would come out it would dominate the list. This ecchi harem comedy beacon in a sea of action series.
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njprogfan
 Collector Extraordinaire Posts: 1233 Location: A River Named Toms |
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I get the NY Times Sunday Edition and will say they didn't print the Manga/Graphic Novel list every week. So I'm not surprised, bummed, but not surprised.
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7jaws7
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I got a kick out of seeing Dragonar Academy's first volume at the top one time. I don't read Monster Musume but I'm not sure even that could rival some of the really lewd content involving Eco... |
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mgosdin
 Posts: 1302 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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I'm not surprised that they are dropping features, that's a couple of more articles that they don't have to pay someone to edit.
Mark Gosdin |
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invalidname
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It was always funny to see these stuffy bookish types try to write a capsule summary of some inane long-running manga's volume 50-something.
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XerneasYveltal
 Posts: 676 Location: Philippines |
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The lists are apparently featured in a bookstore that I frequent most of the time everytime I visit my sister.
MonMusu and Akame ga Kill are probably some of those to have landed a spot in the list at some point as I noticed. |
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encrypted12345
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Clearly it's because Monster Musume kept winning. So much monster discrimination still in this world.
Jokes aside, their readers being uninterested in the ranking is a perfectly fair reason. The newspaper only has so many resources. |
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doomydoomdoom
 Posts: 278 Location: Michigan, USA |
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Kind of crappy. I always liked that the FAILING NYT thought manga sales were worth ranking and reviewing though. Shows how far manga has come in the U.S.
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v1cious
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Every writer should be pissed about this. This was great advertising, and pretty much the only way for the best way to reach non comic/manga readers. This helps no one.
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residentgrigo
 Posts: 2624 Location: Germany |
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Here is an editorial on why this went down with a bit of historical facts: http://www.comicsbeat.com/the-complicated-history-of-the-ny-times-dissing-graphic-novels-on-their-bestsellers-lists/
The mentioned 3 part GN March by John Lewis is also a near masterpiece. Who knows which effect it had on all of this but i do believe that it had one. It will still remain easy to track US comics, my linked site does that for example, but good luck with manga in the future. Last edited by residentgrigo on Fri Jan 27, 2017 3:31 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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yotsubafanfan
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Man! That blows! Whenever a new volume of Yotsuba&! comes out I always get really excited (as well as surprised) to see it on the top of the best sellers list. It shows that despite the year long hiatuses the fans always come back to support it. Now how am I supposed to know that the fan base is still alive and well despite very little info and new content? How will I know that I'm not alone in the fanbase? I guess I won't know now. Screw you NY Times!
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Ambimunch
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Will we get like a monthly compilation alternative at least? Or is this it :S
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