Naruto and Fruits Basket Dropping in Sales

Perhaps not one of the most pressing matters, but this was something I found pretty interesting. Below is a excerpt from the Anime News Network article.

Volume 30 of Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto (Viz Media) and Volume 20 of Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket (Tokyopop), arguably two of the most popular manga currently being published in English, remain the only Japanese comics on the USA Today newpaper’s list of America’s top 150 best-selling books for the week of July 7 to July 13. After cresting at #45 and #63 respectively, sales of both volumes have dropped. Naruto 30 now ranks at #50, while the Fruits Basket volume, also in its second full week as a best-seller, holds the #79 spot.

I found this to be a bit shocking due to the fact that before when Naruto vol. 29 came out it was one of the top books out at the time. Now it has already dropped. Which leads me to ask myself, are the readers already getting a bit bored of the new Naruto Shippuden?

I for one can never find the books. The only stores locally within 20 minutes of my house is Wal-Mart. Other than that I have to drive an hour and a half away for a Books A Million. Every time I go to Wal-Mart though they never carry any manga at all. Only after 2 weeks of checking in did I manage to get a copy of volume 30 for myself.

Anyway though, I found the news kind of a bit odd and wanted to point it out.

Person of the week: Rachel

After thinking of new ways to get things going on my blog here I decided to ask one of my friends, Rachel. She suggested a little friend feature here at the blog. With a little interview of some sort, so allow me to introduce to you all Rachel for the blogs first ever Person of the Week.

Name: well call me Rachel

Age: Unknown

Grade: Dunno

Job: Don’t have one

Relationship Status: Single

Location: My house

Website: Animal Wonders

IM: ily_miss_princess@hotmail.com

(Note: this site is also featured on my Places I visit Section)

Me: Question 1, What is for favorite anime, and why?

Rachel: Well it would probably be Chobits. I lvoe the little persocon It’s so cute : P

Me: Question 2, What Anime character do you relate most too, and why?

Rachel: Hmm…I think Chi. She is so outgoing and sometime can be clueless XD Like me…She’s also very sweet. ^^

Me: Question 3, How much anime/manga merchandise of any sort do you own?

Rachel: Hmm.. probably 10 all manga books..Not such a big fanatic XD

Me: Question 4, You mentioned you had your own website, want to tell a bit about it?

Rachel: Umm…Yes I do.. It’s getting more active. Weekends aren’t so good since people actually DO stuff XD. Im admin there..and so is Kuwi..and you being Mod. It’s basically a hang out site. Animal tlak can go on sometimes..Along with Anime. I have recently added videos. Still trying to add more.

Me: Those are the five questions, but here is a bonus I just thought of ^_^ Describe me in one sentence XD

Rachel: XD Oh wow describe you?!? Ok I guess. XD Hmm..probably cool. You can be very..unatentive to my comments sometimes XD Besides all that you are very cool and layed back

Me: Yay ^_^ ….surprised perverted was not mentioned in there haha.

Hope you all enjoyed this short little interview and please check out Rachel’s site sometime ^_^