Oricon’s listing of best-selling manga volumes incorporates some stunning titles and a few surprising gross sales figures.
Oricon, a Japanese statistics gathering group, has simply launched its yearly desk rating the best-selling manga volumes of the yr. And 2021’s listing is basically fascinating, because it provides us an outline of the state of the manga industry and popular culture as a complete. In keeping with Anime News Network, Demon Slayer quantity 23 sits within the prime spot, promoting 5,171,440 copies between November 23, 2020, and November 21, 2021.
It is a mind-blowing variety of gross sales, and it’s the highest variety of gross sales recorded by Oricon because it began monitoring manga gross sales in 2008. Final yr, quantity 18 of Demon Slayer took the top spot with 4,393,137 gross sales, which means that quantity 23 has bought over 700,000 extra copies than its predecessor. Nonetheless, whereas Demon Slayer holds the highest spot, it is not the most typical collection discovered within the prime 30. Whereas Demon Slayer has seven books within the prime 30, Jujutsu Kaisen has an enormous 18 volumes within the prime 30, with volumes 2 to 17 represented on the desk. In actual fact, probably the most placing developments in these figures is how few franchises are featured. Solely 5 completely different franchises are discovered within the prime thirty. Aside from Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer, One Piece has three volumes within the prime 30, together with the much-hyped quantity 100.
This means that within the manga trade, success begets success. Each time a quantity does nicely, extra folks hear in regards to the franchise and test it out. These new followers purchase the earlier volumes of the collection to catch up, resulting in large elements of a franchise promoting nicely directly as folks proceed to work their manner by means of the older books till they reach the latest volume. This truly suits the pattern seen in final yr’s listing, as that chart noticed Demon Slayer take all 30 locations.
The one two franchises to seem on the listing solely as soon as are Attack On Titan and Spy×Family. The latter is probably going stunning for a lot of as whereas Spy×Household has been extraordinarily fashionable within the pages of Shōnen Soar, and many would not have predicted that it might turn into a greatest vendor so shortly. Curiously, Spy×Household is the one title on the listing and not using a currently-airing anime. Many have argued that the Demon Slayer anime and the Mugen Practice film are partially liable for Demon Slayer’s spectacular manga gross sales during the last two years, so it is going to be fascinating to see if this holds true with Spy×Household. If the often-stated theory is believed, the anime collection will encourage folks to buy the Spy×Household manga volumes inflicting the franchise to dominate the charts subsequent yr.
One other stunning title on the listing is Jujutsu Kaisen 0. First launched as Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical Faculty in 2017, it was renamed and changed into a Jujutsu Kaisen prequel after Jujutsu Kaisen proved fashionable with readers. It is not the one facet content material on the listing, as Demon Slayer’s Tales of Water and Flame and the Official Fan Guide II additionally seem on the chart, exhibiting how determined individuals are for more Demon Slayer content.
One factor to remove from this chart is that the manga trade has massively grown up to now few years. In the event you return to Oricon’s first rating desk from 2008, One Piece #50 sits on the prime of the chart with 1,678,208 gross sales. That’s 3,493,232 lower than Demon Slayer #23, this yr’s top-seller. In actual fact, these gross sales would put One Piece #50 at place 27 of this yr’s desk, exhibiting the meteoric growth in manga sales in the previous few years.
Oricon’s figures provide us a captivating snapshot of the anime trade. They present how some collection can seize the general public’s creativeness and totally dominate each gross sales charts and popular culture as a complete. Will probably be fascinating to see what subsequent yr’s desk seems like. Will Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen continue their dominance, or will a brand new franchise sweep in and declare each the highest spot and lots of the locations on the desk?
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