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Japanese Comic Ranking, March 22-28 (Updated)

Update: Four months after it was first published, the first volume of Mari Yamazaki Thermae Romae manga remained at #27 on the weekly manga sales chart. Yamazaki had won this year's Manga Taisho (Cartoon Grand Prize) earlier in March.

Rank	Prev. Rank	Title	Author	Weekly Copies	Total Copies	Publisher	Price	Cover
1	-	Billy Bat #3	Art: Naoki Urasawa Story Joint Collaboration: Takashi Nagasaki	165,371	165,371	Kodansha	Y620
2	1	Fairy Tail #20	Hiro Mashima	93,681	356,787	Kodansha	Y440
3	-	The Piano Forest #17	Makoto Isshiki	83,771	83,771	Kodansha	Y560
4	-	Working!! #7	Karino Takatsu	74,695	74,695	Square Enix	Y500
5	-	Major #75	Takuya Mitsuda	69,029	183,454	Shogakukan	Y420
6	-	Sora no Otoshimono #8	Suu Minazuki	64,540	64,540	Kadokawa Shoten/Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y588
7	-	Uchū Kyōdai #9	Chūya Koyama	63,651	63,651	Kodansha	Y580
8	-	Suki Desu Suzuki-kun!! #7	Gō Ikeyamada	62,783	62,783	Shogakukan	Y420
9	-	Darker than BLACK: Shikkoku no Hana #2	Art: Yuji Iwahara Original Story: Bones, Tensai Okamura	60,780	60,780	Square Enix	Y540
10	2	Daiya no A (Ace of Diamond) #20	Yūji Terajima	60,248	212,445	Kodansha	Y440
11	-	Future Diary #10	Sakae Esuno	59,547	59,547	Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y588
12	-	Shingetsutan Tsukihime #8	Story & Art: Sasakishonen Original Concept: Type-Moon/ Shingetsutan Tsukihime Production Committee	55,381	55,381	ASCII MediaWorks/ Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y630
13	-	Pandora Hearts #11	Jun Mochizuki	54,952	54,952	Square Enix	Y590
14	-	Black Bird #10	Kanoko Sakurakoji	51,172	51,172	Shogakukan	Y420
15	4	GTO: Shonan 14 Days #3	Tohru Fujisawa	50,929	169,401	Kodansha	Y440
16	-	Sunshine Sketch (Hidamari Sketch) #5	Ume Aoki	50,372	50,372	Hobunsha	Y860
17	6	One Piece #57	Eiichiro Oda	49,267	2,143,174	Shueisha	Y420
18	3	Hajime no Ippo #91	George Morikawa	49,050	191,260	Kodansha	Y440
19	-	Five #13	Shiori Furukawa	43,107	43,107	Shueisha	Y420
20	12	Mama ha Tenparist #3	Akiko Higashimura	39,869	91,115	Shueisha	Y780
21	-	Future Diary: Paradox #8	Sakae Esuno	39,419	39,419	Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y588
22	-	Psychic Detective Yakumo #2	Original creator: Manabu Kaminaga Art: Suzuka Oda	38,971	55,735	Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y588
23	-	Cooking Papa #109	Tochi Ueyama	38,079	38,079	Kodansha	Y530
24	9	Naruto #50	Masashi Kishimoto	37,953	1,023,967	Shueisha	Y420
25	-	The Sacred Blacksmith #3	Art: Kōtarō Yamada Original creator: Isao Miura Original Character Design: Runa	35,318	35,318	Media Factory	Y550
26	19	Usogui #16	Toshio Sako	35,020	73,471	Shueisha	Y540
27	14	Thermae Romae #1	Mari Yamazaki	32,214	175,813	Enterbrain	Y714
28	-	Momogumi Plus Senki #8	Eri Sakondou	32,078	32,078	Kadokawa Group Publishing	Y440
29	-	Kimi to Boku. #8	Kiichi Hotta	31,365	31,365	Square Enix	Y420
30	18	Berry Berry #2	Banri Hidaka	31,265	70,056	Hakusensha	Y420

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

Source: Oricon

Update: Billy Bat's publisher corrected. Thanks, Tratious.