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Japanese Bookstores Recommend 15 Top Manga for 2015
posted on by Karen Ressler
The Ancient Magus' Bride, My Hero Academia, Nietzsche-sensei top list
Japanese online bookstore Honya Club unveiled the results of its "Zenkoku Shotenin ga Eranda Osusume Comic 2015" poll on Thursday. The poll asked 2,360 bookstore employees for the top 15 manga series that had fewer than five volumes as of November 2014.
Top 15 Recommended Manga by Bookstores
| Rank | Title | Creator(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | The Ancient Magus' Bride (Mahō Tsukai no Yome) | Kore Yamazaki |  |
| 2. | My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia) | Kōhei Horikoshi |  |
| 3. | Nietzsche-sensei: Konbini ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita (Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store) | Koma Matsu, Hashimoto |  |
| 4. | Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge | Nozomi Uda |  |
| 5. | Orange | Ichigo Takano |  |
| 6. | ReLIFE | Yayoiso |  |
| 7. | Handa-kun | Satsuki Yoshino |  |
| 8. | The Heroic Legend of Arslan (Arslan Senki) | Hiromu Arakawa, Yoshiki Tanaka |  |
| 9. | Kasane | Daruma Matsuura |  |
| 10. | Amaama to Inazuma | Gido Amagakure |  |
| 11. | Kōdai-ke no Hitobito | Kozueko Morimoto |  |
| 12. | Hatarakanai Futari | Satoru Yoshida |  |
| 13. | Kiss Him, Not Me (Watashi ga Motete Dōsunda) | Junko |  |
| 14. | Hinomaru Zumō | Kawada |  |
| 15. | Dagashi Kashi | Kotoyama |  |
Seven Seas Entertainment will begin publishing The Ancient Magus' Bride in North America in May. Viz's Shonen Jump is serializing My Hero Academia. Crunchyroll is publishing Orange, The Heroic Legend of Arslan, and Kiss Him, Not Me on its online manga service and Kodansha USA licensed the latter two for release in North America.
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