My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer have met their match because the best-selling manga for 2021 has been revealed – and it is not both of them.
The manga collection My Hero Academia and Demon Slayer have been hits. For years they have been promoting thousands and thousands of copies and may need been anticipated to dominate gross sales charts this 12 months. That isn’t the case. Jujutsu Kaisen has as an alternative taken the highest slot for 2021.
Demon Slayer, from creator Koyoharu Gotouge, started publishing in Weekly Shonen Leap in 2014. It ended final 12 months but has continued to see excessive gross sales. This might partially be as a result of elevated international reputation of the collection with the newly translated anime collection and the movie, Demon Slayer: Mugen Train. Mugen Prepare is the highest-grossing anime movie in Japan – and worldwide, topping Spirited Away. My Hero Academia started serializing in the identical 12 months as Demon Slayer, however it remains to be being serialized. It has frequently been a top-performing collection domestically and globally.
On Twitter, Shonen Leap Information shared the yearly comedian gross sales for the 12 months, as offered by Oricon. Jujutsu Kaisen ranks on the high, adopted carefully by Demon Slayer, with Tokyo Revengers coming in at third. Assault on Titan and My Hero Academia full the highest 5. The remainder of the chart includes One Piece, Chainsaw Man, Spy X Household, Kingdom, and Haikyu!!
The previous a number of months, every of those titles have been hit and miss week to week when it comes to gross sales. Nevertheless, collectively, they’ve produced the very best numbers. Jujutsu Kaisen, from creator Gege Akutami, started serializing in Weekly Shonen Leap in 2018 and remains to be operating. It presently has seventeen volumes spanning 100 and forty-seven chapters, although there are presently a complete of 100 and sixty-six. It’s a supernatural darkish fantasy story that follows Yuji Itadori. It’s really a sequel collection, with its predecessor being Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College, which was revealed in a Jujustu Kaisen precursor volume (#0). Jujusu Kaisen presently ranks as one of many high fifty best-selling manga of all time, regardless of present process a short hiatus earlier this 12 months. Nevertheless, if its gross sales proceed to extend, it may discover itself getting into the highest twenty mark, alongside collection like One Piece, Dragon Ball, Assault on Titan, and Bleach – amongst others.
This 12 months, Crunchyroll awarded Jujutsu Kaisen the “Greatest Anime of the 12 months” award, and the manga has been nominated for a number of awards since its launch in 2018. Whereas it could not have the worldwide reputation that the other manga series have earned over a number of years, it’ll probably rise to their ranks prior to later. It has confirmed to be a high contender, beating out the earlier reigning champion. Demon Slayer was the top-selling manga collection of 2020, with it additionally being the best-selling manga in Japan in 2019. Going back-to-back is actually a powerful feat, however Demon Slayer has met its match in Jujutsu Kaisen. My Hero Academia was edged out by One Piece for a few years, earlier than Demon Slayer snatched the highest spot. Subsequent 12 months’s manga gross sales can be attention-grabbing to see – may My Hero Academia lastly take a high slot or will Jujutsu Kaisen prove to be one other back-to-back collection following in Demon Slayer’s footsteps?
Supply: Shonen Jump News
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