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Japanese Comic Ranking, May 4-10

Kyoto Animation's K-ON! television anime series continues propelled the first two volumes of kakifly's original manga onto the charts, even though the first volume was released back in May of 2008. Similarly, Minoru Itō's two-part Aishiteru Kaiyō manga series jumps onto the chart two years after its debut, thanks to the live-action television drama series that premiered on April 15.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	1	Naruto #46	Masashi Kishimoto	291,155	795,179	Shueisha	Y420
2	2	Ouran High School Host Club #14	Bisco Hatori	165,719	324,053	Hakusensha	Y420
3	4	Claymore #16	Norihiro Yagi	85,933	181,233	Shueisha	Y420
4	3	Eyeshield 21 #35	Story: Riichirou Inagaki Art: Yūsuke Murata	80,171	183,504	Shueisha	Y420
5	6	Toriko #4	Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro	66,271	149,487	Shueisha	Y420
6	7	Gintama Official Character Book 2 (Gintama Gonensei)	Hideaki Sorachi	57,201	136,882	Shueisha	Y720
7	-	Hanma Baki - Son of Ogre #18	Keisuke Itagaki	54,085	54,085	Akita Shoten	Y420
8	10	Yu-Gi-Oh! GX #5	Supervision: Kazuki Takahashi Story & Art: Naoyuki Kageyama	45,085	99,798	Shueisha	Y420
9	-	Baki Gaiden - Scarface #5	Story: Keisuke Itagaki Art: Yukinao Yamauchi	43,852	43,852	Akita Shoten	Y580
10	16	Sengoku Tenshō-ki #5	Hideki Miyashita	42,569	88,444	Kodansha	Y580
11	12	Kure-nai #3	Original Creator: Kentarō Katayama Art: Yamato Yamamoto	40,188	94,313	Shueisha	Y460
12	17	Hana Yorimo Hana no Gotoku #7	Minako Narita	39,379	77,390	Hakusensha	Y420
13	9	Fullmetal Alchemist #22	Hiromu Arakawa	36,712	1,049,424	Square Enix	Y420
14	13	Kochira Katsushika-ku Kamearikouen-mae Hashutsujo #164	Yūsei Matsui	34,701	82,451	Shueisha	Y420
15	15	Majin Tantei Nōgami Neuro #21	Yūsei Matsui	32,980	79,814	Shueisha	Y420
16	5	Mei-chan no Shitsuji #9	Riko Miyagi	29,008	219,923	Shueisha	Y420
17	48	Kenka Shōbai #15	Yasuaki Kita	24,261	42,644	Kodansha	Y560
18	8	Bokutachi wa Shitteshimatta #6	Kaho Miyasaka	24,096	129,298	Shogakukan	Y420
19	30	K-ON! #1	kakifly	23,277	135,999	Houbunsha	Y860
20	34	K-ON! #2	kakifly	22,561	136,334	Houbunsha	Y860
21	23	Daiya no A (Ace of Diamond) #15	Yūji Terajima	21,663	232,283	Kodansha	Y440
22	24	Dorabase: Doraemon Chō-Yakyū (Super Baseball) Side Story #17	Art: Shintarō Mugiwara Original Creator: Fujiko Pro	21,440	50,431	Shogakukan	Y410
23	21	Kekkaishi #24	Yellow Tanabe	21,368	262,148	Shogakukan	Y420
24	-	Aishiteru Kaiyō Part I	Minoru Itō	20,402	44,215	Kodansha	Y600
25	-	Aishiteru Kaiyō Part II	Minoru Itō	20,237	43,620	Kodansha	Y600
26	26	Life #20	Keiko Suenobu	19,996	215,358	Kodansha	Y440
27	39	Saint Young Men (Saint O-nii-san) #3	Hikaru Nakamura	19,792	663,040	Kodansha	Y580
28	43	One Piece #53	Eiichiro Oda	19,588	1,789,091	Shueisha	Y420
29	-	flat #2	Natsu Aogiri	18,307	18,307	Mag Garden	Y600
30	22	Hayate the Combat Butler (Hayate no Gotoku!) #19	Kenjirō Hata	18,207	311,774	Shogakukan	Y420

Source: Oricon, Tohan

Erratum: Natsu Aogiri's family name corrected.