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Top 50 Manga: March 2018

To help educators and librarians to be informed about what their students and patrons are buying from their local comic shops, we present the Top 50 Manga titles for March. Each month, Diamond Comic Distributors announces its best-selling Manga and trade paperbacks based on Total Unit Sales to comic book specialty shops.

Adapting the best-selling video game, Akira Himekawa's The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Volume 3 from VIZ Media was the best-selling manga title of March.

In total, VIZ Media had five titles in the top ten including One Punch Man Volume 13 at #2, Buruto: Naruto Next Generations Volume 3 at #3, Yu-Gi-Oh! V Volume 3 at #5, and Splatoon Volume 2 at #8.

Seven Seas' Monster Musume Volume 13 ranked #4.

Kodansha Comics' Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 2 ranked #6.

Dark Horse Comics had two titles in the top ten: volume 1 of Kentaro Miura's Berserk ranked #7 and volume 2 of Berserk ranked #10.

Finally, Seven Seas Ghost Ship's To Love Ru Volume 5 & 6 Omnibus ranked #9.

TOP 50 MANGA
Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in March 2018

QTY
RANK
OVERALL
GRAPHIC NOVEL
UNIT
RANK
OVERALL
GRAPHIC NOVEL
DOLLAR
RANK
INDEX ITEM CODE DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR

This information may not be reproduced in any format without the express permission of Diamond Comic Distributors.

Item codes followed by -M indicate multiple covers and skus at the standard SRP.

How does Diamond calculate the charts? It all starts at the comic book shop.

Data for Diamond’s sales charts — which includes the monthly market shares and all top product charts — are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from sales made to thousands of comic book specialty shops located in North America and around the world.  Additional sales made to online merchants and other specialty stores may be included as well.

Unit and dollar market shares are calculated based upon orders for comic books, graphic novels, and magazines invoiced and shipped to Diamond customers during any given month, which comprises pre-orders, advance reorders, and reorders, minus any copies that are received back from a title marked as returnable. Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may rank lower on the charts than their actual sales would reflect.

About the Diamond Sales Index: The Sales Index of selected monthly Best Seller Charts is presented as a comparative tool for retailers and publishers. It presents Diamond’s monthly sales for individual titles in relation to Diamond’s total sales for the issue of DC Comics' monthly Batman comic book. (Batman is used as the control title — with a value of 100 — because sales of Batman usually remain relatively stable.) This allows for easy comparison to other titles and helps retailers gauge their orders for all other titles. This formula is only a guide, other factors may impact a titles’ ability to sell in certain locations and clientele.

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