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NEWS: New York Times Manga Best Seller List, January 10-16 [2016-01-22]




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Ali07



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:37 pm Reply with quote
I'm in shock. My Monster Secret (Actually I Am...) made it into the top 10? Genuinely surprised by that. Didn't hear much hype over the anime (I enjoyed it), but I think I'll end up finding the manga funnier than I did the anime. Laughing

And, while I did like the character designs in the anime, I think I like the manga ones more. It's mostly the faces where I see more of a difference. The manga has them slightly more exaggerated, leading to the facial reactions from the characters looking better than they did in the anime.

A pleasant surprise to see it make the top 10. It's also the first monster girl manga I've grabbed from Seven Seas. They finally broke me...and I will be getting My Girlfriend is a T-Rex from them in November...
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Ulinox



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 6:06 pm Reply with quote
Good thing One-Punch Man is there. At least one decent title on the whole list. Great to see it still going strong. It was the best anime of 2015, so it should.
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Eddy564



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:00 pm Reply with quote
Ulinox wrote:
Good thing One-Punch Man is there. At least one decent title on the whole list. Great to see it still going strong. It was the best anime of 2015, so it should.
It's not the only "decent" title on the list. But yes OPM definitely deserves its place here.
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AmuroNT1



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 12:47 am Reply with quote
Ali07 wrote:
I'm in shock. My Monster Secret (Actually I Am...) made it into the top 10? Genuinely surprised by that. Didn't hear much hype over the anime (I enjoyed it), but I think I'll end up finding the manga funnier than I did the anime. Laughing

And, while I did like the character designs in the anime, I think I like the manga ones more. It's mostly the faces where I see more of a difference. The manga has them slightly more exaggerated, leading to the facial reactions from the characters looking better than they did in the anime.

A pleasant surprise to see it make the top 10. It's also the first monster girl manga I've grabbed from Seven Seas. They finally broke me...and I will be getting My Girlfriend is a T-Rex from them in November...


Yeah, the manga is WAY better than the anime IMO. The manga actually has progression and development in Asahi and Youko's relationship, while the anime dragged things out for the sake of fitting a 12-episode season.

To be fair, the anime was a pretty faithful adaptation, it's just that they jumped around and cherry-picked stories from all over the manga's span, putting an emphasis on comedy first. And sometimes the anime staff pulled some good moves, like taking two stories with similar plots and merging them together to avoid redundancy (the episode where Mikan found mini-Aizawa is a prime example).

But that said, I'd definitely recommend the manga. I didn't see it at my most recent trip to Barnes and Noble (Volume 1 actually came out on my birthday!), but I'll probably end up ordering it through Amazon.
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Ali07



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2016 8:44 am Reply with quote
AmuroNT1 wrote:
The manga actually has progression and development in Asahi and Youko's relationship

That is good to hear. I'm interested in that and the comedy.

AmuroNT1 wrote:
(the episode where Mikan found mini-Aizawa is a prime example).

Ah, so that is why the first volume seemed slightly different to me. I was surprised that they revealed 2 of the girls in the one volume, but I felt like there was something missing...
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