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PostPosted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:41 pm


Ok, so at work tonight, Jerri tells me there's only business and mangas left. Well, since I read them, she told me to use my judgement and pull mangas that are not really big sellers in my opinion. I need everyone to recommend mangas for future use.
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:28 am


umm heh heh, this could get really biased ~_^ for sure i'd keep stuff like naruto, death note, bleach, fruits basket, tsubasa, umm i'm trying to think of titles that are on the best sellers list. but the nonpopular stuff would be harder cause there's probably going to be a lot of them. oh fma is popular too. yeah thats all i can think of.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:46 am


http://www.mangablog.net/?p=1010

1. Naruto
2. Bleach
3. Kingdom Hearts
4. Fruits Basket
5. Death Note
6. Full Metal Alchemist
7. Vampire Knight
8. Absolute Boyfriend
9. Loveless
10. Tsubasa


http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6401291.html?nid=2789

Top Ten Manga

10) Blood Alone by Masayuki Takano (Infinity Studios)

Newcomer Infinity Studios strikes gold with this series about a girl vampire and her guardian. Takano's creative approach to layout and light-handed artwork will be refreshing to manga readers everywhere.

9) Boys of Summer by Chuck Austen and Hiroki Otsuka (Tokyopop)

Boys is a manga series with an American edge.Austen steps up to the plate with a sexy and touching script about college-bound Bud Waterston who can't keep his eyes off the girls and can't keep his passion for baseball hidden.Otsuka is generous with the panty-shots, making 'Boys' a titillating and edgy reading experience.

cool The Judged by Akira Honma (DramaQueen)

The boys love genre isn't all butterflies and rainbows. The Judged is a haunting and powerful love story about a rookie detective and a corrupt politician. Dark, but not sadistic, this release reveals the potential of a mature boys love narrative.

7) Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata (Viz Media)

Volume 1 was released in 2005, but the Death Note series continues to build its fanbase.Volume 2 has gone into multiple reprints as has volume 3. The Death Note live action movie opened in Japan last June and premiered at Hong Kong's International Film Festival this past August. Currently countries in Europe, Italy, Germany and France, are negotiating to get the movie to their audiences.

6) Project X: Nissin Cup Noodle by Tadashi Katoh, Akira Imai (DMP)

The Project X series is business manga that portrays business phenomena and trends in Japan - and depicted with the same passion and fervor as a regular comic.In Cup Noodle Katoh and Imai give a history lesson and business lesson in one, portable, hand-held manga - much like the 'cup' noodles in the story.

5) Air Gear by Oh! Great (Del Rey Manga)

Oh! Great can draw action like no one else can.His portrayals of movement distill a kinetic energy and fluid physicality that reverberates with readers.Junior high wrestling champ Babyface Itsuki takes to the air with Air Trek skates—motorized super shock absorbing inline skates—to settle the score with Air Trek gang the Skullsaders.ADV has licensed the anime for U.S. release.In the meantime, the manga will have readers daydreaming about flying through the suburban Tokyo skyline.

4) Eden: It's an Endless World! by Hiroki Endo (Dark Horse Manga)

Heavy on narrative and light on technical jargon, Eden is a post-apocalyptic manga series for the geek in all of us.Set in the aftermath of a deadly virus that has destroyed whole towns and colonies of people, Eden follows multiple intertwining plots centered on one family that tie them all together.Endo takes note of Kazuo Koike's mantra: character, character, character.The result is a layered narrative and complex characters as rich, deep and enjoyable as good chocolate cake.

3) Punch! by Rie Takada (Viz Media)

Essential shojo fare.Elle Nagahara has a hot fiance who adores her and a brooding potential boyfriend she's scared of.Elle is interested in neither yet curious about both, making the situation more of a love angle than a love triangle and maximizing the tensions that build as the rivalry between the two boys escalates.

2) Basilisk, by Masaki Segawa, based on the novel by Futaro Yamada (Del Rey Manga)

If Shakespeare set Romeo & Juliet in feudal Japan and the Montagues and Capulets were warring ninja clans with X-men mutant-type capabilities, you'd have Basilisk.This is the top franchise for 2006 with the original novel also released by Del Rey and the anime series running on the IFC.The movie adaptation, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, toured festivals in the states this past summer.

1) The Building Opposite, by Vanyda (FanFare/Ponent Mon)

The quintessential "nouvelle manga" of 2006. Vanyda's The Building Opposite brings together four distinct voices that create parallel narratives of the inhabitants of one apartment building.There's the young couple, the older couple, and the single mother with her child.The vignettes are exactly that, less contained, plot driven storylines than slice of life events that spill over to overlap one another.The result is a graceful depiction of the everyday in all it's humor, unspoken tragedy and simplicity. Not to be missed in 2006.

Top Five Korean Manhwa

5) 0/6 by Youjung Lee (Netcomics)

Boys comics for boys.Moolchi, a classic high-school nerd who gets bullied on a regular basis, is sent a beautiful cyborg bodyguard to protect him and fulfill his every wish.Funny, sexy and gorgeously drawn.

4) Banya: the Explosive Delivery Man by Young Oh Kim (Dark Horse Manhwa)

Set during war in ancient Korea, Banya works as a messenger delivering messages to others.Kim's rendition of this service is similar to the Pony Express, but mercinary and ruthless.Kim does an excellent job illustrating the battle scenes.His drawing style is reminiscent of Takehiko Inoue's in Vagabond.

3) Audition by Kye Young Chon (DramaQueen)

Forget about boys love. DramaQueen licenses some of the best manhwa to come out of Korea. Audition is as gorgeous as it is entertaining.Chon flexes the cross-dressing muscle in this series as two friends/rivals (who dressed as boys in high school) re-unite to find five boys (some of whom have a strong feminine allure) that will be the future of boy bands in Korea.Anyone who thinks girlish looking boys aren't sexy and girls who dress as boys aren't hot, needs to read Audition.

2) DVD, by Kye Young Chon (DramaQueen)

Chon just makes good, funny, and beautiful comics. In DVD, Chon draws upon the newly forming sentiment of westernized youth in Seoul as two best friends DD and Venu take in Ddam Shim as a third roommate.Male readers will have no trouble seeing eye-to-eye with the male protagonists as they discuss the allure of long eyelashes and the delight of padded bras.Meanwhile, female readers will appreciate the beautifully drawn girls and boys and the tinge of heartbreak and betrayal.

1) The Great Catsby by Doha (NetComics)

Catsby is a solemn and beautiful testament to post-graduate life and love. Doha's anthropomorphic depiction of Catsby and his roommate Hondu is sincere and heartfelt.


http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/4721.html

Rurouni Kenshin
Trigun
Fruits Basket
InuYasha
Hellsing
Demon Diary
Yu Gi Oh
Ai Yori Aoshi
Alice 19th
Ai Love You
Fake
Berserk
Kare Kono
Gravitation
Dragon Ball Z
Tokyo Mew Mew
Shaman King
Pet Shop of Horrors
Azumanga Daioh
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Full Metal Panic
Ragnorak
Ranma ?
Aquarian Age
Pita Ten



Don't know if any of those help but i found different pages w/ top sellers on them good luck!
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:51 pm


the top ten manga list sounds kinda like personal choices @_@ because i've never heard of any of those but a few. oh! rurouni kenshin is pretty popular. i remember that being on the best sellers list back in the day, but not so much any more since its completed. i'd say dbz and regular db would be safe bets to keep on the shelves as well.

this is from animenewsnetwork: (i love that site)
Top 50 Most Popular
# title rating nb. votes
1 Death Note (manga) 9.03 1247
2 Naruto (manga) 8.25 942
3 Love Hina (manga) 8.51 811
4 Bleach (manga) 8.46 804
5 Fruits Basket (manga) 8.80 762
6 Chobits (manga) 8.06 717
7 Rurouni Kenshin (manga) 8.80 644
8 Berserk (manga) 9.24 593
9 Fullmetal Alchemist (manga) 8.76 600
10 One Piece (manga) 8.48 508
11 Azumanga Daioh (manga) 8.72 435
12 Ranma 1/2 (manga) 8.05 469
13 Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE (manga) 8.43 382
14 Inuyasha (manga) 7.47 412
15 Cardcaptor Sakura (manga) 8.36 362
16 GTO (manga) 8.76 339
17 Dragon Ball (manga) 7.58 388
18 Hellsing (manga) 8.47 347
19 Monster (manga) 8.61 338
20 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (manga) 9.12 313
21 D.N.Angel (manga) 7.94 354
22 Negima! Magister Negi Magi (manga) 8.30 335
23 Hikaru no Go (manga) 8.28 335
24 Kare Kano (manga) 8.39 323
25 XXXHOLiC (manga) 8.46 317
26 Hunter X Hunter (manga) 8.91 299
27 Hana-Kimi (manga) 8.61 305
28 Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga) 8.24 311
29 Akira (manga) 8.52 288
30 Angel Sanctuary (manga) 8.36 292
31 Yotsuba&! (manga) 8.70 273
32 Gravitation (manga) 8.28 278
33 Absolute Boyfriend (manga) 7.88 278
34 Gantz (manga) 8.56 253
35 Trigun (manga) 7.97 265
36 Strawberry 100% (manga) 8.24 255
37 Fushigi Yugi (manga) 7.95 264
38 Battle Angel Alita (manga) 8.65 242
39 .hack//Legend of the Twilight (manga) 7.47 279
40 Alice 19th (manga) 7.58 272
41 Oh My Goddess! (manga) 7.97 258
42 NANA (manga) 8.55 235
43 I''s (manga) 8.53 233
44 Magic Knight Rayearth (manga) 7.48 265
45 Shaman King (manga) 7.42 265
46 FLCL (manga) 6.75 290
47 20th Century Boys (manga) 8.37 233
48 Ceres: Celestial Legend (manga) 7.68 253
49 Blade of the Immortal (manga) 8.83 215
50 Mars (manga) 8.53 221

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:45 pm


You guys rock out loud! Thank you!
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:13 pm


hehe we have resources and arent afraid to use them!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:52 pm


Aww, Moon and Mandi listed them all.

Just never ever stock this one book called Zyword. I found it torture to read and my cousin actually bought the thing.
PostPosted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:16 pm


should we add personal wants on the list as well ~_^ cause all the ones we listed would make a very boring manga section. i like the random gems that can be found.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:44 pm


Its the most popular though. Like "Best Sellers", especially Fruits Basket. Got an award or something.
PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:26 pm


that random one that you thought was a piece of s**t?

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:38 pm


You can add personal favourites that you think others will like.
PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 2:06 pm


hehehe anything by clamp ~_^

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:21 pm


I always make sure the ones by Clamp are out!
PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:26 am


clamp is the best!

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:40 pm


I never thought FB was shitty...if you're implying that cause I'm a bit lost. But its really long and stuff now. I hate how the eyes take up 3/4 of their face.
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