In its third week, the 15th volume of Masashi Kishimoto’s smash-hit Naruto series slipped seven spots to No. 60 on USA Today’s Top 150 Books list.

Meanwhile, the first volume Shiro Amano’s Kingdom Hearts II eased to No. 136, up 13 spots from its debut last week. The Tokyopop series is based on the popular Walt Disney/Final Fantasy video game mash-up.

The USA Today list tracks all genres and types of books sold in some 4,700 brick-and-mortar and online stores.

Naruto, Vol. 11, climbed as high as No. 21 in August 2006.

On her blog, Becky Cloonan posts a handful of panels from the second volume of her highly enjoyable Tokyopop series East Coast Rising.

Tokyopop has partnered with MySpace to premiere digitally animated shows based on four of the publisher’s titles: I Luv Halloween, A Midnight Opera, Bizenghast, and Riding Shotgun.

The first of the shows, I Luv Halloween, debuts today at the TokyopopTV MySpace page. The other pilots will debut daily through Thursday, with subsequent episodes appearing weekly thereafter.

The digital animation is by Menfond Electronic Art. The full press release can be found here.

In its second week of release, the 15th volume of Masashi Kishimoto’s international phenomenon Naruto has shot to No. 53 on USA Today’s Top 150 Books list, up an impressive 54 spots from its debut.

Naruto, Vol. 11, climbed as high as No. 21 in August 2006.

The USA Today list tracks all genres and types of books sold in some 4,700 brick-and-mortar and online stores.

The first volume of Shiro Amano’s Kingdom Hearts II, based on the popular Walt Disney/Final Fantasy video game mash-up, squeaked in at No. 149 in its first week.

After a couple of delays and false starts, Tokyopop has launched its new website — well, at least the beta version.

As blogger David Welsh points out, publisher Go! Comi has redesigned its site, too, while Ice Kunion‘s is “under construction,” with a promised return in October as freemanhwa.com.