Reception
Volumes 19 and 20 were the third and fifth highest selling (respectively) manga books of 2008. Volumes 1 and 2 were listed on YALSA's "2007 Great Graphic Novels for Teens" list. The first twelve volumes of the manga series have cumulatively sold over 22 million copies. As of 2008, it has sold over 43,600,000. In 2003, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)