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Detective Conan Manga Tops Da Vinci Ranking

The January 2019 issue of Kadokawa Media Factory's book and manga news magazine Da Vinci unveiled its 18th annual "Book of the Year" list on Thursday. The rankings are not based solely on sales. Instead, a group of 4,275 voters including book reviewers, writers, and bookstore employees selected this year's lists. To be eligible, a manga had to have a new volume published between October 1, 2017 and September 30, 2018.

The magazine's comic rankings of the top 50 titles are:

1. Detective Conan (Volumes 1-95) - Gosho Aoyama
2. Oya-san to Boku - Tarō Yabe
3. One Piece (Volumes 1-91) - Eiichiro Oda
4. Haikyu!! (Volumes 1-35 - Haruichi Furudate
5. Chihayafuru (Volumes 1-40) - Yuki Suetsugu
6. Golden Kamuy (Volumes 1-15) - Satoru Noda
7. Kingdom (Volumes 1-51) - Yasuhisa Hara
8. Attack on Titan (Volumes 1-26) - Hajime Isayama
9. Gintama (Volumes 1-75) - Hideaki Sorachi
10. Yotsuba&! (Volumes 1-14) - Kiyohiko Azuma
11. Space Brothers (Volumes 1-34) - Chuya Koyama
12. Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (Volumes 1-16) - Fumi Yoshinaga
13. One-Punch Man (Volumes 1-18) - ONE, Yuusuke Murata
14. Oji-sama to Neko (Volumes 1-2) - Umi Sakurai
15. Tokyo Ghoul:re (Volumes 1-16) - Sui Ishida
16. My Hero Academia (Volumes 1-21) - Kōhei Horikoshi
17. Kimi ni Todoke - From Me to You (Volumes 1-30) - Karuho Shiina
18. Black Butler (Volumes 1-27) - Yana Toboso
19. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku (Volumes 1-6) - Fujita
20. Koguma no Cake-ya-san (Volumes 1-2) - Kamentotsu
21. Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc - Nobuhiro Watsuki, Kaoru Kurosaki
22. JoJolion (Volumes 1-19) - Hirohiko Araki
23. Kinō Nani Tabeta? (Volumes 1-14) - Fumi Yoshinaga
24. Ore, Tsushima - Opū no Kyōdai
25. Hozuki's Coolheadedness (Volumes 1-27) - Natsumi Eguchi
26. The Promised Neverland (Volumes 1-11) - Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu
27. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (Volumes 1-5) - CLAMP
28. Hibiki: Shōsetsuka ni Naru Hōhō (Volumes 1-10) - Mitsuharu Yanamoto
29. Tokusatsu Gagaga (Volumes 1-14) - Niwa Tanba
30. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Volumes 1-14) - Koyohara Gotouge
31. Bungō Stray Dogs (Volumes 1-16) - Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa
32. Ashi-Girl (Volumes 1-11) - Kozueko Morimoto
33. Mariko, Umaku Iku yo - Miri Masuda
34. Dragon Ball Super (Volumes 1-8) - Toyotarō, Akira Toriyama
35. Mix (Volumes 1-13) - Mitsuru Adachi
36. Yona of the Dawn (Volumes 1-28) - Mizuho Kusanagi
37. The Seven Deadly Sins (Volumes 1-34) - Nakaba Suzuki
38. Otagai 40-dai Kon - Naoko Takagi
39. Kounodori: Dr. Stork (Volumes 1-24) - Yū Suzunoki
40. Darling no Tokyo Sanpo: Aruku Sekai - Saori Oguri, Tony Laszlo
41. Blue Giant Supreme (Volumes 1-6) - Shinichi Ishizuka
42. Metamorphose no Engawa (Volumes 1-2) - Kaori Tsurutani
43. Hapi Hapi Kuroneko (Volumes 1-5) - Yamato Kuroneko
44. Hunter × Hunter (Volumes 1-36) - Yoshihiro Togashi
45. The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Volumes 1-10) - Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa
46. Dekiru ka na Royale - Rieko Saibara
47. Golgo 13 (Volumes 1-191) - Takao Saito
48. Teasing Master Takagi-san (Volumes 1-9) - Sōichirō Yamamoto
49. Yakumo Tatsu: Arata - Natsumi Itsuki
50. Princess Maison (Volumes 1-5) - Aoi Ikebe

Chika Umeno's March comes in like a lion topped the list in the previous three years, but did not appear on this year's list (the manga's 13th volume shipped on September 29, 2017, and the 14th volume will ship on December 21). One Piece and Detective Conan were also in the top five last year.

Sources: Da Vinci January 2019 issue, Comic Natalie