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March comes in like a lion Tops Da Vinci Magazine's Rankings for 2nd Year
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The January 2017 issue of Kadokawa Media Factory's book and manga news magazine Da Vinci unveiled its 17th annual "Book of the Year" list on Tuesday. The rankings are not based solely on sales. Instead, a group of 5117 voters including book reviewers, writers, and bookstore employees selected this year's lists.
The magazine's comic rankings of the top 50 titles are:
- March comes in like a lion (Volumes 1-12) - Chika Umino
- One Piece (Volumes 1-83) - Eiichiro Oda
- Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo (Volumes 1-200) - Osamu Akimoto
- Attack on Titan (Volumes 1-20) - Hajime Isayama
- Assassination Classroom (Volumes 1-21) - Yūsei Matsui
- Detective Conan (Volumes 1-90) - Gōshō Aoyama
- Chihayafuru (Volumes 1-33) - Yuki Suetsugu
- Space Brothers (Volumes 1-29) - Chūya Koyama
- Haikyu!! (Volumes 1-24) - Haruichi Furudate
- Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You (Volumes 1-27) - Karuho Shiina
- Erased (Volumes 1-8) - Kei Sanbe (tied for 11th)
- Umimachi Diary (Volumes 1-7) - Akimi Yoshida (tied for 11th)
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Volumes 1-8) - Izumi Tsubaki
- Yotsuba&! (Volumes 1-13) - Kiyohiko Azuma
- Delicious in Dungeon (Volumes 1-3) - Ryōko Kui
- Hunter × Hunter (Volumes 1-33) - Yoshihiro Togashi
- Gintama (Volumes 1-66) - Hideaki Sorachi
- Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū (Volumes 1-10) - Haruko Kumota
- Tokyo Tarareba-jō (Volumes 1-6) - Akiko Higashimura
- My Love Story!! (Volumes 1-13) - Kazune Kawahara, Aruko
- Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (Volumes 1-13) - Fumi Yoshinaga
- My Hero Academia (Volumes 1-11) - Kōhei Horikoshi
- Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu (Volumes 1-8) - Tsunami Umino
- Bleach (Volumes 1-74) - Tite Kubo
- Yomawari Neko: Koyoi mo Dokoka de Namida no Nioi (Volume 1) - Kahoru Fukaya
- Kingdom (Volumes 1-44) - Yasuhisa Hara
- Yona of the Dawn (Volumes 1-21) - Mizuho Kusanagi
- Fujoshi no Tsuzui-san (Volumes 1-2) - Tsuzui
- Tokyo Ghoul:re (Volumes 1-8) - Sui Ishida
- Hyakushō Kizoku (Volumes 1-4) - Hiromu Arakawa
- The Ancient Magus' Bride (Volumes 1-6) - Kore Yamazaki (tied for 31st)
- Bungō Stray Dogs (Volumes 1-11) - Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa (tied for 31st)
- Kin no Kuni Mizu no Kuni - Nao Iwamoto
- Yoshino Sakumi Gekijō ALL IN ONE: Yoshino Saskumi wa Hon ga Daisuki - Sakumi Yoshino
- The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Volumes 1-6) - Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
- Mix (Volumes 1-9) - Mitsuru Adachi
- Golden Kamuy (Volumes 1-9) - Satoru Noda
- Berserk (Volumes 1-38) - Kentarō Miura
- Saint Young Men (Volumes 1-13) - Hikaru Nakamura
- One-Punch Man (Volumes 1-12) - ONE, Yūsuke Murata
- Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto (Volumes 1-4) - Nami Sano
- Golgo 13 (Volumes 1-183) - Takao Saitō
- Ajin - Demi-Human (Volumes 1-9) - Gamon Sakurai
- Sore de mo Machi wa Mawatteiru (Volumes 1-15) - Masakazu Ishiguro
- D.Gray-man (Volumes 1-25) - Katsura Hoshino
- Orange (Volumes 1-5) - Ichigo Takano
- Sweetness and Lightning (Volumes 1-7) - Gido Amagakure
- Himitsu season0 (Volumes 1-4) - Reiko Shimizu
- Ace of Diamond (Volumes 1-47) - Yūji Terajima
- What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Volumes 1-12) - Fumi Yoshinaga (tied for 50th)
- Land (Volumes 1-3) - Kazumi Yamashita (tied for 50th)
March comes in like also topped the list last year. Attack on Titan and One Piece were also in last year's top five, alongside Detective Conan and Silver Spoon.