With apologies to Harper’s Magazine, it’s time for another installment of the Manga Recon Report Card, a pseudo-scientific, quasi-statistical look at our spring reviews, complete with a link-tastic index in case you missed any.

REVIEWS BY THE NUMBERS
Total number of series reviewed: 39
Number of one-shots reviewed: 6
Number of out-of-print series reviewed: 1
Average grade received: B
Percentage of titles receiving a grade of A: 5%
Percentage of titles receiving a grade of A-: 21%
Percentage of titles receiving a grade of B+: 26%
Percentage of titles receiving a grade of B: 21%
Percentage of titles receiving a grade of B- or lower: 27%
Titles receiving the highest grade: Kaze Hikaru, Kekkaishi
Titles receiving the lowest grade: Manga Shakespeare: Hamlet, Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Review eliciting the greatest reader response: Club 9
Number of titles that include the word “princess”: 2
Number of series featuring a princess as a regular cast member: 4
Number of series featuring a vampire as a regular cast member: 2
Number of series featuring a bear as a regular cast member: 1

REVIEWS BY PUBLISHER
Number of reviews of titles published by Broccoli Books: 3
CMX: 2
CPM: 1
Dark Horse: 4
Del Rey: 3
DMP: 1
Fanfare/Ponet Mon: 1
Last Gasp: 1
NETCOMICS: 1
Self-Made Hero: 2
Tokyopop: 6
Vertical, Inc.: 2
Viz: 12

Broccoli Books (3)
E’S (Volume 2 reviewed 4/30/07)
Murder Princess (Volume 1 reviewed 4/11/07)
Yoki Koto Kiku (reviewed 5/3/07)

CMX (2)
Apothecarius Argentum (Volume 1 reviewed 5/31/07)
Canon (Volume 1 reviewed 5/22/07)

CPM (1)
Platina (Volume 1 reviewed 5/22/07)

Dark Horse (4)
Club 9 (Volumes 1-3 reviewed 4/2/07)
Eden: It’s An Endless World (Volumes 1-7 reviewed 6/29/07)
MPD Psycho (Volume 1 reviewed 5/14/07)
Tanpenshu (Volume 1 reviewed 4/26/07)

Del Rey (3)
Dragon Eye (Volume 1 reviewed 6/24/07)
My Heavenly Hockey Club (Volume 1 reviewed 6/7/07)
Princess Resurrection (Volume 1 reviewed 5/22/07)

DMP (1)
Flower of Life (Volume 2 reviewed 5/3/07)

Fanfare/Ponet Mon (1)
The Times of Botchan (Volumes 1-3 reviewed 6/5/07)

Last Gasp (1)
Junko Mizuno: Pure Trance (reviewed 5/22/07)

NETCOMICS (1)
10, 20 and 30 (Volume 1 reviewed 5/10/07)

Self-Made Hero (2)
Manga Shakespeare: Hamlet (reviewed 5/3/07)
Manga Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (reviewed 5/3/07)

Tokyopop (6)
Brave Story (Volume 1 reviewed 6/24/07)
Genju no Seiza (Volume 3 reviewed 4/9/07)
Nosatsu Junkie (Volumes 1-2 reviewed 5/3/07)
Sorcerers & Secretaries (Volume 2 reviewed 6/7/07)
tactics (Vol. 1 reviewed 4/9/07)
Yubisaki Milk Tea (Volumes 1-2 reviewed 5/3/07)

Vertical, Inc. (2)
Apollo’s Song (reviewed 6/22/07)
Aranzi Machine Gun (Volume 1 reviewed 6/17/07)

Viz (12)
Blue Spring (reviewed 4/30/07)
Gin Tama (Volume 1 reviewed 6/17/07)
Hoshin Engi (Volume 1 reviewed 5/22/07)
Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs (Volume 3 reviewed 6/17/07)
Kaze Hikaru (Volume 5 reviewed 5/17/07)
Kekkaishi (Volumes 1-9 reviewed 5/14/07)
Love*Com (Volume 1 reviewed 6/24/07)
Reborn (Volume 1 reviewed 5/3/07)
R.O.D. (Volumes 1-4 reviewed 4/18/07)
Vampire Knight (Volume 2 reviewed 5/22/07)
Yakitate!! Japan (Volume 5 reviewed 4/30/07)
Yurara (Volume 1 reviewed 5/17/07)

OTHER REVIEWS @ MANGA RECON
Graphic Novel: Essex County: Tales from the Farm (reviewed 5/4/07)
Graphic Novel: Korgi Volume One: Sprouting Wings! (reviewed 5/4/07)
Light Novel: Boogiepop and Others (reviewed 4/16/07)
Light Novel: Don’t Worry Mama (reviewed 4/16/07)
Light Novel: The Man Who Doesn’t Take Off His Clothes (reviewed 4/16/07)
Light Novel: Twelve Kingdoms (Volume 1 reviewed 4/16/07)
Magazine: Otaku USA (Issue 1 reviewed 6/9/07)
Movie: Death Note (reviewed 6/23/07)
Movie: Death Note: The Last Note (reviewed 6/23/07)
Movie: Dynamite Warrior (reviewed 6/30/07)
Movie: Gamera the Brave (reviewed 6/30/07)
Movie: Paprika (reviewed 5/26/07)