The top three manga franchises for September through December have settled in for a ride at the top, with the Junji Ito horror titles making a move upward.

ICv2 visited the McFarlane Toys booth at Toy Fair in New York for the first time in a number of years, where McFarlane Brand Manager Shelby Mathews showed us the company’s 2019 lines.

This week's home entertainment offerings include Sony's attempt to revive the comic book-based Men in Black franchise, an Olivia Spencer horror movie, a smart and savvy coming-of-age film directed by actress Oiivia Wilde, plus the latest episodes of Bob’s Burgers and the breakout superhero anime series My Hero Academia.

VIZ Media's My Hero Academia was the top manga franchise in the U.S. in the Fall 2019 season.

Jasco Games will release the Street Fighter Collectible Card Game DLC, the third Universus Deck-Loadable Content set.

These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.

Here's a review of My Hero Academia Team-Up Missions' Vol. 1 TP, published by VIZ Media.

These are unit and dollar sales rankings based on sales tracked at point-of-sale by the ComicHub system at stores selling American comics around the world.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during August 2015.

In Part 1 of this two-part interview, we drill down into manga sales trends across channels, talk about VIZ’s new hit, and talk about what’s going on in the streaming scene, and the scale of its impact on manga sales.