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1. Why did you decide to have a own “Vampire” category? How did come up with these categories to begin with? Why would you mix demographics with genre? Isn’t there a mistake in the standardization?:S

   (If you explained the questions above somewhere else, sry =()

   Comment by Invaeon — 29 January 2009, 12:40 #

2. @Invaeon:

   Last time I posted market share data, I did a pie chart by Publisher

   The whole-year’s-data looked similar, so I felt doing market share in the same way would just be a waste of effort.

   Then the thought occurred to me list Naruto separately from the rest of Viz just to show how big a chunk of the total market is just one series —

   that was the initial joke, “Viz, Tokyopop, Naruto, Dark Horse…”

   And then other ideas crept in: Why not just ninja comics, robot comics, pirate comics, etc…

   And Anyone who has looked at a list of titles (or has to type them in manually on a weekly basis) notices Vampires keep cropping up everywhere: action, fantasy, historical, light shojo romance… blue space vampires from the moon…

   What I did was go through my list and looked at a title, and went with the category that I thought it fit into. Code Geass and Mobile Suit Gundam are “robot” comics, Tail of the Moon and Naruto are “ninja” comics, One Piece is a “pirate” comic —

   panty flash and proxy fighter, seinen and gekiga, josei and moe.

   Some authors are big enough (and their comics also a tad hard to classify as more one thing than another) that I thought I’d list ‘em on their own. I like Yotsubato and Genshiken so they also get their own slices.

   As to the question, why mix genre with demographis? 1. I’m lazy — I could often look at a title and say shojo or shonen, but wouldn’t know much else about it.

   and 2. The labels Shonen and Shojo are being marketed as genres.

   The whole thing is my little joke, in fact, but I used enough math to make it “true”
   — to be closer to reality, one would have to use tags, like “Ninja Romance Yuri Comedy with self-aware meta humor about fandom, and Panty Shots” or “Sci-fi Action with Miko, giant robots, high-school hijinks, and Panty Shots” or “Historical-based Fantasy Action with a reverse harem setup, pseudo-chinese cosmology/mythology and Panty Shots”
   …but parsing things that fine doesn’t lend itself to an easy pie chart.

   Comment by Matt Blind — 29 January 2009, 14:09 #

3. I love how Yotsuba gets its own slice.

   I groaned when I saw how large a slice “vampires” got though

   Cool post.

   Comment by BakaTanuki — 29 January 2009, 15:31 #

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