Not surprising, though. The flood of manga had to slow down, there's too much crap choking the shelves. Check out the manga section of Borders and you'll drown in titles you wouldn't read if your life depended on it, most of them generic clones of each other running for a dozen volumes minimum. The occasional Ode to Kirihito doesn't stand a chance of getting noticed. I haven't seen anything new at the quality level of Planetes or Parasyte in far too long.
James
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