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Top-Selling Light Novels in Japan by Series: 2014 (First Half)

posted on by Egan Loo

The following chart covers sales from November 18, 2013 to May 18, 2014:

Rank Estimated Copies Sold
in Period
Title Publisher
Author
1 814,638 Kagerou Daze Enterbrain
JIN (Shizen no Teki-P)
Illustration: Shizu
2 651,405 The irregular at magic high school ASCII Media Works
Tsutomu Satou
Illustration: Kana Ishida
3 592,669 Sword Art Online ASCII Media Works
Story: Reki Kawahara
Illustration: abec
4 519,732 Monogatari Series Kodansha
NisiOisin
Illustration: VOFAN
5 487,397 My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Shogakukan
Wataru Watari
Illustration: Ponkan8
6 331,987 Sword Art Online: Progressive ASCII Media Works
Story: Reki Kawahara
Illustration: abec
7 318,987 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index (New Testament: A Certain Magical Index) ASCII Media Works
Kazuma Kamachi
Illustration: Kiyotaka Haimura
8 281,325 Kuroko's Basketball -Replace- Shueisha
Sawako Hirabayashi
Original Story/Illustration: Tadatoshi Fujimaki
9 255,348 No Game, No Life (Kadokawa) Kadokawa
Yuu Kamiya
10 243,659 Date A Live Fujimi Shobo
Koushi Tachibana
Illustration: Tsunako
11 243,652 Strike the Blood ASCII Media Works
Gakuto Mikumo
Illustration: Manyako
12 236,474 Log Horizon Enterbrain
Mamare Touno
Illustration: Kazuhiro Hara
13 204,995 The Devil Is a Part-Timer! ASCII Media Works
Satoshi Wagahara
Illustration: 029
14 190,718 Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts Enterbrain
Kenji Inoue
Illustration: Yui Haga
15 178,055 Black Bullet ASCII Media Works
Shiden Kanzaki
Illustration: Saki Ukai
16 171,115 Aria the Scarlet Ammo Media Factory
Chūgaku Akamatsu
Illustration: Kobuichi
17 169,136 Tokyo Ravens Fujimi Shobo
Kōhei Azano 
Illustration: Sumihei
18 168,701 No Game, No Life (Media Factory) Media Factory
Yuu Kamiya
19 149,621 No-Rin SB Creative
Shiratori Shirow
Illustration: Kippu
20 144,263 Accel World ASCII Media Works
Reki Kawahara
Illustration: HIMA

Source: Oricon


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