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Japanese Comic Ranking, March 15-21

Update: Four months after it was first published, the first volume of Mari Yamazaki's Thermae Romae manga rose to #14 on the weekly manga sales chart. Yamazaki had just won this year's Manga Taisho (Cartoon Grand Prize) the previous week.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	-	Fairy Tail #20	Hiro Mashima	263,106	263,106	Kodansha	Y440
2	-	Daiya no A (Ace of Diamond) #20	Yūji Terajima	152,197	152,197	Kodansha	Y440
3	-	Hajime no Ippo #91	George Morikawa	142,210	142,210	Kodansha	Y440
4	-	GTO: Shonan 14 Days #3	Tohru Fujisawa	118,472	118,472	Kodansha	Y440
5	-	Major #75	Takuya Mitsuda	114,425	114,425	Shogakukan	Y420
6	1	One Piece #57	Eiichiro Oda	89,114	2,093,907	Shueisha	Y420
7	-	Kaiōki #43	Masatoshi Kawahara	82,367	82,367	Kodansha	Y440
8	5	Chihayafuru #8	Yuki Suetsugu	72,957	165,512	Kodansha	Y440
9	2	Naruto #50	Masashi Kishimoto	61,955	986,014	Shueisha	Y420
10	7	Strobe Edge #8	Io Sakisaka	60,715	137,087	Shueisha	Y420
11	-	RIN-NE (Kyōkai no Rinne) #3	Rumiko Takahashi	57,580	57,580	Shogakukan	Y420
12	-	Mama ha Tenparist #3	Akiko Higashimura	51,246	51,246	Shueisha	Y780
13	-	Yankee-kun to Megane-chan #16	Miki Yoshikawa	43,914	43,914	Kodansha	Y440
14	56	Thermae Romae #1	Mari Yamazaki	42,367	143,599	Enterbrain	Y714
15	4	Katekyo Hitman Reborn! #28	Akira Amano	42,291	462,989	Shueisha	Y420
16	3	Angel Heart #32	Tsukasa Hojo	41,984	164,408	Shinchosha	Y540
17	-	Godhand Teru #51	Kazuki Yamamoto	41,386	41,386	Kodansha	Y440
18	-	Berry Berry #2	Banri Hidaka	38,791	38,791	Hakusensha	Y420
19	-	Usogui #16	Toshio Sako	38,451	38,451	Shueisha	Y540
20	-	Ore-sama Teacher #7	Izumi Tsubaki	37,815	37,815	Hakusensha	Y420
21	-	The Best Skilled Surgeon (Saijō no Meii) #9	Story: Kenzō Irie Art: Takashi Hashiguchi Medical Supervisor: Tadashi Iwanaka	35,983	35,983	Shogakukan	Y420
22	-	Kingdom #17	Yasuhisa Hara	34,399	34,399	Shueisha	Y540
23	-	Orange Chocolate #3	Nanpei Yamada	32,197	32,197	Hakusensha	Y420
24	-	Saikyō! Toritsu Aoizaka Kōkō Yakyūbu (Aoizaka High School Baseball Club) #24	Motoyuki Tanaka	30,304	30,304	Shogakukan	Y420
25	6	Bakuman. #7	Story: Tsugumi Ohba Art: Takeshi Obata	28,843	325,009	Shueisha	Y420
26	-	Arata Kangatari #6	Yuu Watase	28,761	28,761	Shogakukan	Y420
27	-	Smash! #17	Kaori Saki	Kodansha	27,987	27,987	Y440
28	-	Do Da Dancin'! Venetia Kokusai-Hen #7	Satoru Makimura	27,333	27,333	Shueisha	Y480
29	-	Shigurui #14	Original creator: Norio Nanjo  Art: Takayuki Yamaguchi	27,195	27,195	Akita Shoten	Y580
30	-	Kinnikuman Nisei Kyūkyoku no Chōjin Tag Arc #21	Yudetamago	27,094	27,094	Shueisha	Y540

Note: The images for the new titles will be added later.

Source: Oricon