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Japanese Bookstores Recommend 15 Top Manga for 2017
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Japanese online bookstore Honya Club unveiled the results of its "Zenkoku Shotenin ga Eranda Osusume Comic 2017" (Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2017) poll on Wednesday. The poll asked 1,094 bookstore employees for the top 15 manga series that had fewer than five volumes as of November 2016.
Top 15 Recommended Manga by Bookstores
| Rank | Title | Creator(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san | Sōichirō Yamamoto |  |
| 2. | Shinya no Damekoi Zukan | Ira Ozaki |  |
| 3. | Dōkyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. | Tsunami Minatsuki, As Futatsuya |  |
| 4. | Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai - Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen | Aka Akasaka |  |
| 5. | Platinum End | Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata |  |
| 6. | Watashi no Shōnen | Hitomi Takano |  |
| 7. | The Case Study of Vanitas (Vanitas no Carte) | Jun Mochizuki |  |
| 8. | Cells at Work! (Hataraku Saibō) | Akane Shimizu |  |
| 9. | Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | Fujita |  |
| 10. | Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare | Io Sakisaka |  |
| 11. | Tōmei na Yurikago | Bakka Okita |  |
| 12. | Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san | Honda |  |
| 13. | Fire Force (En En no Shōbōtai) | Atsushi Ohkubo |  |
| 14. | Kimetsu no Yaiba | Koyoharu Gotōge |  |
| 15. | Fire Punch | Tatsuki Fujimoto |  |
Viz Media is publishing Platinum End, and shipped the first volume in October. Yen Press is publishing The Case Study of Vanitas, and shipped the first volume in December. Kodansha Comics is publishing both Cells at Work! and Fire Force. The company shipped the second volume of Cells at Work! in December, and the first volume of Fire Force in November.
Viz Media's Weekly Shonen Jump digital anthology previewed the first three chapters of Kimetsu no Yaiba in English when it debuted in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in February 2016.
Ryōko Kui's Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi) manga topped last year's list. Yen Press will publish the manga's first volume this spring.
Source: Comic Natalie
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