Open Thread: 2017 Wrap-Up

Open Thread: 2017 Wrap-Up

That was a rough year, but I read a lot of books and made many posts!  As usual with these annual wrap-ups, let’s start with the top tens!

Top Ten Posts of 2017

1. Book Review: The Financial Expert
2. Book Review: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
3. Book Review: The Black Tulip
4. TV Review: Mannix
5. Manga Review: Inuyashiki #1-3
6. Manga Review: Blade of the Immortal Omnibus 1
7. Book Review: Our Man in Charleston
8. Anime Review: The Kindaichi Case Files Return
9. Book Review: Inferior
10. TV Review: Thunderbolt Fantasy

The big surprise for the year is the sudden interest in Mannix.  Mike Connors, the star of that beloved detective show, passed away in January.

Top Ten Posts of All Time

1. Book Review: The Financial Expert
2. Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura
3. Manga Review: Shonen Jump Weekly (USA)
4. Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans
5. Book Review: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
6. Manga Review: Vagabond Volume 1
7. Book Review: Wrapped in the Flag: A Personal History of America’s Radical Right
8. Comic Book Review: The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition
9. Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency
10. Anime Review: Magi – Labyrinth of Magic

R.K. Narayan’s masterpiece is likely to sit at the top of this list for years to come.

Now, let’s break it down by category.

Top Ten Books 2017

1. The Financial Expert
2. The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
3. The Black Tulip
4. Our Man in Charleston
5. Inferior
6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
7. The Sea-Wolf
8. The Guns of Navarone
9. Last Hope Island
10. A Memory This Size and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2013

50% “classics”, 30% history, 20 % other.

Top Ten Manga 2017

1. Inuyashiki #1-3
2. Blade of the Immortal Omnibus 1
3. Let’s Dance a Waltz
4. Doraemon Vol. 1
5. Futaba-kun Change! Vol. 1
6. Cells at Work!
7. Shonen Jump Weekly (2016)
8. Weekly Shonen Jump (USA)
9. Platinum End Volume 3
10. Die Wergelder 1

Inuyashiki has an anime now, and Blade of the Immortal just had a live-action movie.

Top Ten Comics 2017

1. The Fix, Volume 1: Where Beagles Dare
2. Teen Titans Earth One Volume One
3. The New Teen Titans Volume One
4. Kill 6 Billion Demons 1
5. Showcase Presents: The Trial of the Flash
6. Showcase Presents: Weird War Tales Volume 1
7. Jack Kirby’s The Demon
8. Essential Captain Marvel Vol. 2
9. Our Army at War
10. Johnny Comet

Nice to see a non-superhero title get interest!

Top Ten Anime 2017

1. The Kindaichi Case Files Return
2. Urusei Yatsura
3. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
4. Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans
5. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency
6. Matchless Raijin-Oh
7. The Rose of Versailles
8. Tonari no Seki-Kun
9. Lupin the Third: The Italian Adventure
10. Erased

People wanted to know about jigsaw puzzle murder mysteries this year, I guess.

And now, the Top Ten countries that looked at this blog in 2017!

1. United States of America
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada
4. India
5. Australia
6. Phillipines
7. Germany
8. Japan
9. France
10. Indonesia

And one lonely visitor from Tunisia!  Please come back and bring a friend!

What were your favorite posts this year?  What would you like to see in 2018?