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Japanese Comic Ranking, April 7-13

The April 2 premiere of Kyoto Animation's K-ON! television anime series has propelled both volumes of kakifly's original manga onto the charts, even though the first volume was released back in May of 2008.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	-	Fullmetal Alchemist #22	Hiromu Arakawa	536,207	536,207	Square Enix	Y420
2	1	Bleach #38	Tite Kubo	205,197	681,808	Shueisha	Y420
3	3	Katekyo Hitman Reborn! #24	Akira Amano	174,158	439,464	Shueisha	Y420
4	4	Gintama #28	Hideaki Sorachi	157,792	387,015	Shueisha	Y420
5	2	Detective Conan (Case Closed) #64	Gōshō Aoyama	122,283	462,830	Shogakukan	Y420
6	-	Slam Dunk 10 Days After	Takehiko Inoue	88,522	88,522	Flower	Y2100
7	6	Monster Hunter Orage #3	Hiro Mashima Supervision: CAPCOM	76,173	161,493	Kodansha	Y440
8	8	Kaichou wa Maid Sama! #7	Hiro Fujiwara	69,265	150,684	Hakusensha	Y420
9	7	To Love-Ru -Trouble- #13	Story: Saki Hasemi Art: Kentarō Yabuki	63,287	148,441	Shueisha	Y420
10	11	Nurarihyon no Mago #4	Hiroshi Shiibashi	55,456	129,726	Shueisha	Y420
11	5	Saint Young Men (Saint O-nii-san) #3	Hikaru Nakamura	50,200	561,623	Kodansha	Y580
12	-	Crows Zero #1	Original creator: Hiroshi Takahashi Script: Shōgo Mutō Art: Kenichirō Naitō	46,446	46,446	Akita Shoten	Y420
13	-	Crows Zero #2	Original creator: Hiroshi Takahashi Script: Shōgo Mutō Art: Kenichirō Naitō	45,046	45,046	Akita Shoten	Y420
14	9	NANA #21	Ai Yazawa	43,706	1,322,034	Shueisha	Y420
15	-	Omamori Himari #5	Milan Matra	43,209	43,209	Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y609
16	-	7SEEDS #15	Yumi Tamura	36,264	36,264	Shogakukan	Y420
17	-	Gifū Dōdō!! Naoe Kanetsugu -Maeda Keiji Tsuki-gatari #2	Story: Tetsuo Hara, Nobuhiko Horie Art: Yūji Takemura	34,327	34,327	Shinchosha	Y540
18	-	Clover #10	Tetsuhiro Hirakawa	30,806	30,806	Akita Shoten	Y420
19	-	Chrome Shelled Regios #02	Art: Miyū Story: Shūsuke Amagi	28,385	28,385	Fujimi Shobo	Y567
20	-	Megami no Oni #12	Hiroshi Tanaka	27,691	27,706	Kodansha	Y580
21	18	One Piece #53	Eiichiro Oda	26,847	1,709,716	Shueisha	Y420
22	12	Shaman King Kang Zeng Bang #27	Hiroyuki Takei	25,407	89,271	Shueisha	Y1000
23	-	Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas - Meiō Shinwa #13	Story: Masami Kurumada Art: Shiori Teshirogi	25,238	25,238	Akita Shoten	Y420
24	15	Soul Eater #14	Atsushi Ookubo	24,682	330,202	Square Enix	Y420
25	10	Hellsing #10	Kouta Hirano	22,749	196,580	Shounen Gahousha	Y530
26	76	K-ON! #1	kakifly	22,639	56,711	Houbunsha	Y860
27	91	K-ON! #2	kakifly	20,434	61,879	Houbunsha	Y860
28	46	Jin #14	Motoka Murakami	20,192	39,048	Shueisha	Y540
29	-	Coppelion #3	Tomonori Inoue	20,067	20,067	Kodansha	Y580
30	-	Dokaben Superstars #28	Shinji Mizushima	19,202	19,202	Akita Shoten	Y420

Source: Oricon, Tohan