Booklista and eBookJapan, two of the major online bookstores in Japan, have released their top-selling book list for the first half of 2016. In both rankings, Hajime Isayama's Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan series is listed as the most popular manga title. The latest 19th tankobon volume of the dark fantasy action series was published on April 8 in Japan, and its print edition sold at least 1.18 million copies in its first 10 days. The next 20th volume is scheduled to be released on August 9. The series has printed over 50 million copies in total.

Booklista's Top 10 books in the first half of 2016 (including all genres)

1. "Attack on Titan" volume 19 (Hajime Isayama/Kodansha)

2. "Hibana" Naoki Matayoshi (Kodansha) - novel

3. "Ato Hyakuen de Mou Ippin! Rakuten Recipe Setsuyaku Oryouri Best 100" (Bungei Shunjyu) - cooking book

4. "Kingdom" volume 41 (Yasuhisa Hara/Shueisha)

5. "Kingdom" volume 40 (Yasuhisa Hara/Shueisha)

6. "Ten ni Kou" volume 8 (Sakura Mochizuki, Richiko/Sora Shuppan)

7. "One Piece B&W Edition" volume 80 (Eiichiro Oda/Shueisha)

8. "Kingdom" volume 42 (Yasuhisa Hara/Shueisha)

9. "Boku Dake ga Inai Machi" volume 8 (Kei Sanbe/Kadokawa)

10. "Assassination Classroom" volume 18 (Yusei Matsui/Shueisha)

eBookJapan's top 10 manga (by series)

1. "Attack on Titan" (Hajime Isayama/Kodansha)

2. "Kingdom" (Yasuhisa Hara/Shueisha)

3. "Hunter x Hunter" (Yoshihiro Togashi)

4. "Boku Dake ga Inai Machi" (Kei Sanbe/Kadokawa)

5. "Space Brothers" (Chuya Koyama/Kodansha)

6. "Terra Formars" (Yu Sasuga, Kenichi Tachibana/Shueisha)

7. "One Piece B&W Edition" (Eiichiro Oda/Shueisha)

8. "Tokyo Goul:re" (Sui Ishida/Shueisha)

9. "The Seven Deadly Sins" (Nakaba Suzuki/Kodansha)

10. "Zenaku no Kuzu" (Daisuke Watanabe/Shonen Gahousha)

"Attack on Titan" 19th volume CM

19th volume cover

Source: press release 1,2

(C) Hajime Isayama/Kodansha

(C) Hajime Isayama, Kodansha/Attck on Titan Production Committee