Takashi Murakami the 500 arhats.
Wiki said 五百羅漢（The arhats) is Theravada Buddhism denotes arhat (Sanskrit) and arahant (pali) as "one who is worthy" or is a "perfected person" having attained nirvana. But I think we may call just a trainee monk arhats. Anyway I have never seen such unique approach, Pop! Cute and grotesque. I like it.
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Wednesday, March 02, 2016
The best manga judged by the number
Manga labo is a blog which updating topics of Boys manga. They post intereting one in last week. "Which manga is the best?". This time they make the ranking logically by three numbers.
A. a circulation : How many the manga was sold totally.
1. ONE PIECE 345,000,000(not end yet)
2. Golgo 13 280,00,000 (not end yet)
3. Dragon Ball 230,000,000 end
4. Black Jack 176,000,000 end
5. Doraemon 176,000,000 end
B. volumes / a circulation : A circulation per volume. We can't say small volume are not popular sweepingly.
1. Black Jack (25)
2. Fist of the North Star(15)
3. Dragon Ball (42)
4. Touch (20)
5. Astro Boy (21)
C. volumes / a circulation / serial term : We can't say short term (small volume) are not popular but if it is not popular, it can't be serialized for long term.
1. Black Jack
2. Fist of the North Star
3. Dragon Ball
4. Death Note
5. Kimagure Orange Road
Then this is the total ranking of "the best boy's manga" calculated by those three numbers.
1. Black Jack
2. Fist of the North Star
3. Dragon Ball
4. Touch
5. SLAM DUNK
People discuss about this entry and most convince this one. But if we make it more accurate, we should add more conditions. Actually I wonder old manga have advantages because they didn't have less competetors in manga and also another media, entertainment itself.