Open Thread: Top Ten Lists for 2019!

Another year ends, and it’s time for top ten lists!

Top Ten Posts of 2019!

1. Book Review: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
2. Book Review: The Financial Expert
3. Book Review: The Sea-Wolf
4. Book Review: The Black Tulip
5. Manga Review: Vagabond Volume 2
6. Anime Review: Dororo (2019)
7. Manga Review: Weekly Shonen Jump (2018)
8. Manga Review: Ranma 1/2
9. Book Review: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
10. TV Review: Mannix

The Arthurian fans took the fore this year!

Top Ten Posts of All Time!

1. Book Review: The Financial Expert
2. Book Review: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
3. Book Review: The Black Tulip
4. Book Review: The Sea-Wolf
5. Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura
6. Book Review: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
7. Manga Review: Weekly Shonen Jump (USA)
8. TV Review: Mannix
9. Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans
10. Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency

But The Financial Expert still has the lead in the long run, thanks to college literature courses.

Top Books of 2019!

1. Book Review: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
2. Book Review: The Financial Expert
3. Book Review: The Sea-Wolf
4. Book Review: The Black Tulip
5. Book Review: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
6. Book Review: Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror
7. Book Review: The Railway Children
8. Book Review: Octavia’s Brood
9. Book Review: The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
10. Book Review: The Black Stallion Challenged

Mostly, you folks seem to prefer the older books.

Top Manga of 2019!

1. Manga Review: Vagabond Volume 2
2. Manga Review: Weekly Shonen Jump (2018)
3. Manga Review: Ranma 1/2
4. Manga Review: Sanctuary
5. Manga Review: Case Closed (Detective Conan)
6. Manga Review: Lone Wolf & Cub Omnibus 1
7. Manga Review: Doraemon Vol. 1
8. Manga Review: Naruto
9. Manga Review: Blade of the Immortal Omnibus 1
10. Manga Review: Cells at Work!

I remember when Vagabond volume 1 was my top vote getter.

Top Anime of 2019!

1. Anime Review: Dororo (2019)
2. Anime Review: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency
3. Anime Review: Urusei Yatsura
4. Anime Review: The Kindaichi Case Files Return
5. Anime Review: The Rose of Versailles
6. Anime for Speculative Fiction Fans
7. Anime Review: Elfen Lied
8. Anime Review: Tiger Mask W
9. Anime Review: Hataraki Man
10. Anime Review: InuYasha Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island

Dororo shot right up to the top this year!

Top Comics of 2019!

1. Comic Strip Review: Johnny Comet
2. Comic Book Review: The New Teen Titans Volume One
3. Comic Book Review: Ben 10: Deep Trouble
4. Comic Strip Review: The Phantom: The Complete Newspaper Dailies: Volume Two
5. Comic Book Review: Jack Kirby’s The Demon
6. Comic Book Review: New Crusaders #1: Rise of the Heroes
7. Comic Strip Review: Kill 6 Billion Demons 1
8. Comic Book Review: Essential Sub-Mariner Vol. 1
9. Comic Book Review: Curse of the Were-Woman
10. Comic Book Review: Peter Pan and the Language of the Dead

Did not see that one coming at all!

Top TV and Movies of 2019!

1. TV Review: Mannix
2. Movie Review: The Crusades (1935)
3. Movie Review: Spider Forest (2004)
4. TV Review: The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu
5. Movie Review: The Sign of the Cross (1932)
6. Movie Review: Big Trouble in Little China
7. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
8. Movie Review: Excalibur
9. Movie Review: Woochi the Demon Slayer
10. Movie Review: The Sorcerer and the White Snake (2012)

Mannix stays tops, but I made an extra effort this year to review more movies.

Top Visitors for 2019!

1. United States
2. India
3. United Kingdom
4. American Samoa!
5. Canada
6. China
7. Philippines
8. Germany
9. Japan
10. Australia

If you’re a Samoan, please comment and let me know what you enjoy!

And a shoutout to our lone visitor from the Isle of Gibraltar! Please come back and bring your friends!

Your thoughts, comments, and favorite stuff from 2019?