What earthly power can defeat The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the bookstore? Manga! As Brigid Alverson reports, the January 2025 Circana Bookscan numbers demonstrate that readers are still interested in perennial favorites Chainsaw Man, Spy x Family, and Solo Leveling, as well as hardcover editions of older titles like Berserk and Vagabond. Equally significant: all twenty volumes on Circana’s list were published by Dark Horse, VIZ, and Yen Press.

NEWS AND VIEWS

The ALA just released its list of 2024’s Best Graphic Novels for Adults, which includes a good selection of manga. [American Library Association]

Shaenon Garrity and Meg Lemke offer a sneak peek at this year’s new and noteworthy manga, and highlight a few of 2024’s best titles. [Publisher’s Weekly]

Once more, with feeling: Dark Horse will be publishing a new omnibus edition of Gantz G this fall. [ICv2]

Dragon Ball Super fans rejoice: a new one-shot will run in next week’s issue of V-Jump. [Anime News Network]

As part of his ongoing series about the manga industry, Isaiah Colbert interviews Kumar Sivasubramanian about translating Dan Da Dan. [i09]

The Reverse Thieves podcast names Takahashi From the Bike Shop its Manga of the Month. [Reverse Thieves]

Kara Dennison explains why Star of Beethoven “has the earmarks of an interesting story” and “the earmarks of a series likely to be cut down before its time.” [Otaku USA]

REVIEWS

Erica Friedman reviews Hitorimi Desu 60-sai Lesbian Single Seikatsu…  Hagai Palevsky offers an in-depth analysis of Tokyo These Days… Andrew Osbourne takes Tokyo Alien Brothers for a spin… and Beneath the Tangles looks at recent volumes of Centuria, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and Solo Leveling.