Spring 2016 Top 10 Manga Franchises

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ANN reports that ICv2 released a chart on Friday that ranked the top selling manga franchises from spring 2016 in the United States. ICv2 stated the data "reflects sales in all channels," and is based on interviews with stores, distributors, and manufacturers.

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1. Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga (Viz Media)
2. Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul manga (Viz Media)
3. Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan manga (Kodansha Comics)
4. ONE and Yuusuke Murata's One-Punch Man manga (Viz Media)
5. Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga (Viz Media)
6. Hiro Mashima's Fairy Tail manga (Kodansha Comics)
7. Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga (Viz Media)
8. Yana Toboso's Black Butler manga (Yen Press)
9. Tsugumi Ohba's and Takeshi Obata Death Note manga (Viz Media)
10. Reki Kawahara and various authors' Sword Art Online manga (Yen Press)

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Surprised to see Death Note in Top 10 after all this time.
And well, Naruto was always very popular in the west.

 

[iNotorious]

I'm surprised that SAO is in this list.

 

[Ambivalence]

Pretty interesting mix of good and meh manga.

 

[ChicagoJhawk]

Top seven weren't a surprise

 

[Excālibur1]

I am surprised Black Butler made it into the list.