Manga top 10 according to Tohan.

1. Real vol.6
2. xxxHOLiC vol.10
3. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle vol.17
4. Black Lagoon vol.6
5. Sprout vol.3
6. The Wallflower vol.17
7. Hajime no Ippo vol.78
8. Kindaichi Case Files - Gokumonjuku Satsujin Jiken part 1+2
9. Naruto vol.35
10. Inuyasha vol.47

After a two months long hiatus, Hiroya Oku's popular seinen manga Gantz finally returns in this week's Young Jump under the name Gantz: 2nd Phase. With the return of Gantz, Hiroya Oku currently has two series running in Young Jump, Gantz and Me-Teru no Kimochi.

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Kadokawa Shoten has announced a new "game and goods amusement magazine" titled "Comp Selections" (コンプセレクションズ). The first issue of the magazine will be released on 11/24. Comp Selections will contain game summaries, information on game characters, goods information, staff column, interviews, and seiyuu interview. A manga will also be serialized in this magazine: Really? Really! Prelude by Kusaka Shiroi (Original Story: N

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According to the lastest Weekly Jump early sales info, the rumored new manga from Death Note creator Takeshi Obata, titled "Blue Dragon: RalΩGrado", will begin serialization Weekly Shonen Jump issue 1 (12/4). The description under the titles says: "The history of a boy who arrives in a world where darkness reigns."

Also starting in Weekly Shonen Jump:

Shonen Jump No.2
- "Jinriki Keiyakusha M&Y" by Akira Akatsuki
Shonen Jump No.3
- "Juku Ningen Jon Boll" by Hiroyuki Takei

School Days, a popular 18+ PC game by 0verflow, will be adapted into an anime TV series next year. The School Days game is famous for its over 70 hours worth of animations, which requires over 7 gigabytes of hard disk space for installation.

Source: Moonphase

According to Comic High Magazine, Kirihara Izumi's Hitohira will be adapted into an anime TV series in 2007.

TBS recently announced a second Hana Yori Dango live-action series. The first episode, which will be filmed in New York and span 2 hours and 15 minutes, will be aired on January 2007.

Hana Yori Dango (花より男子), known in the U.S. as Boys Over Flowers, is a popular shojo manga by Yoko Kamio, and is one of the best-selling shojo manga of all time.

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After two years in the making, the Kyoto International Manga Museum, a project founded by Kyoto Seika University and supported by the city of Kyoto, will be opened on November 25th. According to Animaxis, "the museum will collect, display, and preserve manga as well as conduct manga culture-related research and study. Initially the museum will house an estimated 200,000 items, storing everything from Meiji era classics to modern hits and manga produced overseas."

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Dragon Ball Z, despite its age, is still very popular with children today, who are still enjoying the card games, anime re-runs, and various other DBZ products. "While both Goku and Vegeta (main characters from DBZ) are great warriors, how do they fare as fathers?" Excite Bit asks.

First let us take a look at how each character's family feel about this, Goku is up first:

"All they ever talk about are battles." Goku's wife Chi-Chi complains in volume 2 of the manga. "Goku, how can you take care of Gohan (Goku's son) without working? You haven't made a single cent since the day we married."

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Hakusensha has posted its Young Anime website videos of last month's Detroit Metal City event, which took place at Tower Record in Shinbuya.