Naruto rules the charts… again

If you missed Newsflash: Teen Girls Read Manga!, the panel that Robin Brenner moderated with me, Kate Dacey, and Trisha Narwani at NYCC, be sure to catch Rocco Staino’s writeup at School Library Journal.

ICv2 has the BookScan top 20 graphic novels for February, and all we can say is, it’s still a Naruto world. Watchmen topped the list, not too surprisingly, but it was immediately followed by four volumes of Naruto, with two more making the list a little further down. Two new series made the list, Otomen from Viz and Maximum Ride, the global manga based on James Patterson’s YA novels, from Yen Press, along with a handful of older titles.

Meanwhile, ANN reports that this week’s USA Today bestseller list includes five volumes of Naruto, marking the first time so many volumes of manga have made the top 150 list.

The MangaCast team checks out this week’s new manga.

At Manga Xanadu, Lori Henderson makes her choices from this month’s Previews.

Anne Ishii explains Black Jack for the Canadian Medical Association Journal. (Via Journalista.)

News from Japan: The nominees for the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced, and they include a couple of titles that are already on their way over here: Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku: The Inner Chamber and Daisuke Igarashi’s Children of the Sea, both coming from Viz, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s autobiography, A Drifting Life, due out any day now from Drawn & Quarterly. Also on the list: the Jesus/Buddha comedy mashup Saint Young Men, which I would love to see come over here as well. In other news, ANN has the manga sales rankings for the past week and the news that the TV anime Munto is getting the manga treatment.

Reviews: Park Cooper presents some short reviews of things he’s looking at at the moment at Manga Life.

Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 7 of The Antique Gift Shop (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Tangognat on vol. 1 of Full Moon O Sagashite (Tangognat)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 6 of Hissing (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)
Park Cooper on vol. 25 of Hunter x Hunter (Manga Life)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 1 of The Magic Touch (Manga Life)
Lori Henderson on vol. 3 of Monkey High (Comics Village)
Michelle Smith on vol. 3 of Moon Boy (soliloquy in blue)
Julie on vol. 4 of Orfina (Manga Maniac Cafe)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 2 of Papillon (The Comic Book Bin)
Snow Wildsmith on A Promise of Romance (Manga Jouhou)
Matthew Brady on vol. 3 of Real (Warren Peace Sings the Blues)
Ysabet Reinhardt MacFarlane on vol. 5 of Rosario x Vampire (Manga Life)
Katherine Dacey on vol. 1 of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Precocious Curmudgeon)
Leroy Douresseaux on Stop Bullying Me (The Comic Book Bin)
Snow Wildsmith on vols. 1 and 2 of Suihelibe! (Good Comics for Kids)
Leroy Douresseaux on vol. 3 of Uzumaki (The Comic Book Bin)
Tiamat’s Disciple on vol. 3 of Very! Very! Sweet (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews)