This year’s fifth issue of Hakusensha’s Young Animal magazine revealed on Friday that that Aki Katsu’s Futari H (Manga Sutra) manga has 27 million copies in print in Japan (including digital sales), and 2.5 million copies in print overseas.
Katsu (Psychic Academy, The Vision of Escaflowne) has been drawing Manga Sutra, which describes itself as a “love bible” or a “user’s manual” for people in love, in Young Animal and Young Animal Arashi since 1997.
Tokyopop published Katsu’s The Vision of Escaflowne, Psychic Academy, and Manga Sutra in North America before closing its doors in 2011.
A third live-action film based on Manga Sutra shipped on home video in Japan in 2012.