The combined sales of paper comics (tankobon) and manga magazines increased by 13.4 percent to 270.6 billion yen (2.54 billion USD).
The estimated sales of the digital comic was up 31.9 percent from the previous year to 342 billion yen (3.21 billion USD), increasing 82.7 billion yen (777 million USD) in one year.
However, the sales of manga magazines fell 13.2 percent to 62.7 billion yen.