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In North America, "Gin Tama" has ranked as the best new "shōnen" manga from 2007 in About.com's 2007 Readers Poll: Best New Shonen Manga. In the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation Award from 2008, "Gin Tama" was nominated for the category "Best Manga - Comedy", losing to "Negima! Magister Negi Magi". English sales from the manga volumes have also been good with some of them having appeared in Diamond Comic Distributors's Top 300 Graphic Novels.