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Top 50 best selling manga (according to current reported numbers), in order from highest to lowest

Number of sales and date that number was acquired from in notes for each. Some of them I have personally estimated a higher figure than the date says.

No. 111 is Gekiga Ningen Kakumei by Isami Ishii, which started on Jan. 2nd, 1989 with 56 volumes and ended in Feb. 11th, 2003 in Seikyo Shougakusei Shimbun (daily).

No. 116 is Sake no Hosomichi by Roswell Hosoki, which started in 1994 with 52 volumes & 998 chapters in Weekly Manga Goraku.

No. 128 is Naze ka Shousuke by Hideo Hijiri, which started in 1982 with 51 volumes & 570 chapters in Big Comic Superior (semimonthly).

No. 129 is 4P Tanaka-kun by Taro Nami & Sanbanchi Kawa, which started in 1986 with 51 volumes & 459 chapters in Weekly Shonen Magazine Akita Shoten.

No. 134 is Hocho Mushuku by Yasuyuki Tagawa, which started in 1998 with 50 volumes & 302 chapters in Weekly Manga Goraku Nihon Bungeisha.

No. 142 is Gambling Racer by Makoto Tanaka, which started in 1988 with 46 volumes & 477 chapters in Weekly Morning Kodansha.

Manga adaptations of classical works as well as stories about people in higher education with a DA aesthethic or people appreciating the arts with an old aesthethic. So I won't include something such as Blue Period because the aestehthic doesn't fit but it does thematically. But this is an aesthethic, and since it's Eurocentric I have to be a bit liberal with my definition.

Kanako Inuki, sometimes called the "Queen of Horror Manga", is a mangaka who debuted in 1987 with the one-shot "orusuban (house-sitting?)" in the magazine shoujo friend, within a special issue centered around horror manga legend kazuo umezu. she went on to create successful series such as Presents, School Zone, Bukita-kun, and the Mysterious Tatari-chan. her manga, which has often appeared in shoujo magazines, are well-known for her iconic, expressive artwork and is recommended for fans of junji ito, the aforementioned kazuo umezu, and maybe even hideshi hino.

this is a list taken from the english release of kanako inuki's collection Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki!

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format:
mangaka
common english title(s)
magazine

(comment from inuki-sensei)


RECOMMENDED INUKI KANAKO MANGA THAT ARE FULLY AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH (either officially or through scanlations):

series'

Fulfilled Wishes; Wish Fulfillment - https://myanimelist.net/manga/23191/Kanaerareta_Negai
Presents - https://myanimelist.net/manga/9981/Presents
School Zone - https://myanimelist.net/manga/5788/School_Zone

one-shot collections

Hell Mother - https://myanimelist.net/manga/79451/Hell_Mother
The Legend of the Slit-Mouthed Woman - https://myanimelist.net/manga/5407/Kuchisake_Onna_Densetsu
Warau Nikumen - https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/rngm1g9/warau-niku-men


SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8A%AC%E6%9C%A8%E5%8A%A0%E5%A5%88%E5%AD%90
https://mangapedia.com/%E7%8A%AC%E6%9C%A8%E5%8A%A0%E5%A5%88%E5%AD%90-fek56a3aq
https://samatsutei.hatenablog.com/entry/20150523/1432392919

Mangas that have a sword and sorcery, sword-and-sandal, medieval/fantastical middle ages like setting

* = i had to use the advanced search to find these, possibly not the most accurate result
2001-2050: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/48905
Anime 1951-2050: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/48293
Anime 2001-2050: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/45933

List of the manga/light-novels and other works references made in Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san (Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san), that I was able to catch.

Episode 3:
- The Irregular at Magic High School
- Psycho-Pass
- One Punch-Man
- Thomas no Shinzou
- Shiota-sensei to Amai-chan
- Shiki no Zenjitsu
- Natsume Yuujinchou
- Shoujo Kakumei Utena
- Nodame Cantabile
- Akachan to Boku
- Chihayafuru
- Berserk

Episode 4: Nothing mentioned.

Episode 5:
- Mother's Spirit
- Golden Kamuy (not mentioned by name)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (pun with the name)

Episode 6:
- GeGeGe no Kitarou
- Akuma-kun (not sure)
- Osomatsu-san
- Yama**-kun (maybe Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches ?)

Episode 7:
- Poe no Ichizoku

Episode 8:
- Pretty Cure (Futari wa Precure)
- Mahou Shoujo Ore
- Naruto

Episode 9:
- Yokohama Station SF

Episode 10: (this one will take a while)

Episode 11: Nothing mentioned.

Episode 12:
- Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo
- Sangokushi

* Water Margin (Outlaws of the Marsh; All Men Are Brothers)
* Romance of the Three Kingdoms
* Journey to the West
* Dream of the Red Chamber (The Story of the Stone)
* The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus)
* The Scholars

Using the same distinction between Literary and Genre Fiction.
Manga that focus on characters and themes rather than plot, and don't conform to a genre.

Literary manga != Good manga

Please feel free to message me any suggestions or alterations you feel should be made! I plan to regularly update this list.