Top 50 Manga for April 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 April. Each month, Diamond Comic Distributors announces its best-selling Manga and trade paperbacks based on Total Unit Sales to comic book specialty shops.

VIZ Media’s My Hero Academia Volume 12 was April’s best-selling manga title.

In total, VIZ Media had six titles in the top ten, including Toyko Ghoul:ReVolume 4 at #3, Assassination Classroom Volume 21 at #4, My Hero Academia Volume 1 at #5, Dead Dead Demons Dededede DestructionVolume 1 at #7, and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Volume 1 at #10.

Kodansha Comics had three titles in the top ten: Attack on Titan Volume 24 at #2, Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle Volume 2 at #6, and Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 3 at #9.

Finally, Seven Seas Ghost Ship’s Worlds End Harem Volume 1 ranked #8.

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

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.