Sharky

As we posted back on Monday, the latest volume of the English Naruto manga came in at #21 on the USA Today Top 150 booklist for the week ending in August 27. VIZ Media has sent out a press release about this, which can be seen below:
San Francisco, CA, September 6, 2006 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive manga and animation licensing and publishing companies, has announced that the recently released volume 11 of the popular NARUTO manga series, which is published under the company’s SHONEN JUMP imprint and serialized in the monthly SHONEN JUMP magazine, placed at Number 21 on USA Today’s Top 150 Best Seller List for the week of August 27, 2006. This is the highest placement any manga title has ever achieved on the daily’s noted literary sales list, which compiles sales traction for fiction, non-fiction, hardcover as well as paperback titles.

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