The first week of any month is when a lot of new manga hits the shelves, so this week's edition of the New York Times Graphic Books list features lots of newcomers. This week's batch includes several titles that are making their first appearance on the NYT manga top 10.
It should surprise no one that Naruto Vol. 46 claimed the top spot on its second week on the top 10, nor that the latest volumes of perennial bestselling shonen manga series Rosario + Vampire and One Piece are here too.
What got me excited this week was seeing one of my personal favorites (and one of the quirkiest shojo manga titles around) Skip Beat! claiming a spot in this list. Also new from Shojo Beat: Wild Ones, a relatively mild romance about a girl who lives with her yakuza godfather grandfather, while fostering romantic feelings for her bodyguard.
Here's the rest of the New York Times Manga Bestseller list for the week ending October 10, 2009:
| This Week |
Last Week |
Weeks on List |
Title | Author/Artist | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 ↑ | 2 wks | Naruto Volume 46 | Masashi Kishimoto | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 2 | NEW | 1 wk | Rosario + Vampire Volume 9 | Akihisa Ikeda | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 3 | 1 ↓ | 2 wks | Chibi Vampire Volume 14 | Yuna Kagesaki | TOKYOPOP |
| 4 | 4 ↔ | 4 wks | Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 20 | Hiromu Arakawa | VIZ Media |
| 5 | 2 ↓ | 3 wks | Vampire Kisses Volume 3 | Ellen Schreiber, Elisa Kwon and rem | TOKYOPOP |
| 6 | NEW | 1 wk | Skip Beat! Volume 19 | Yoshiki Nakamura | Shojo Beat / VIZ Media |
| 7 | NEW | 1 wk | One Piece Volume 22 | Eiichiro Oda | Shonen Jump / VIZ Media |
| 8 | 7 ↓ | 2 wks | Shugo Chara! Volume 7 | Peach-Pit | Del Rey Manga |
| 9 | NEW | 1 wk | Wild Ones Volume 8 | Kiyo Fujiwara | Shojo Beat / VIZ Media |
| 10 | 8 ↓ | 4 wks | Yotsuba&! Volume 6 | Kiyohiko Azuma | Yen Press |
NOTE: "RET" means that a title has returned to the Top 10 after an absence of a week or more. Weeks on the chart are counted as weeks on the Top 10.
Image credit: © Yoshiki Nakamura 2007 / HAKUSENSHA, Inc.
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