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Top-Selling Manga in Japan by Volume: 2021 (First Half)
posted on by Egan Loo
The 23rd and final volume of the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga is the first manga volume to sell over 4 million copies in Oricon's half-year sales ranking charts since Oricon began posting rankings in 2008. The first volume in the series is the first manga volume to sell a cumulative total of over 5 million copies since 2008. As of May, 19 volumes in the series have each sold over 5 million copies.
Shueisha ran full-page-spread ads in Japan's top five newspapers (Yomiuri, Asahi, Mainichi, Sankei, Nihon Keizai) on the evening before and the morning of the final Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga volume's launch day.
This list covers sales of physical copies surveyed from November 23, 2020 to May 23, 2021.
| Rank | Title | Author | Estimated Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 23 | Koyoharu Gotouge | 4,982,832 |
| 2 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Side Story | Art: Ryōji Hirano/Original Story: Koyoharu Gotouge | 2,289,411 |
| 3 | Jujutsu Kaisen 14 | Gege Akutami | 2,055,130 |
| 4 | Jujutsu Kaisen 15 | Gege Akutami | 2,016,143 |
| 5 | ONE PIECE 98 | Eiichiro Oda | 1,876,047 |
| 6 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō | Gege Akutami | 1,640,157 |
| 7 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Official Fan Book II | Koyoharu Gotouge | 1,630,162 |
| 8 | Jujutsu Kaisen 1 | Gege Akutami | 1,552,810 |
| 9 | Jujutsu Kaisen 9 | Gege Akutami | 1,535,199 |
| 10 | Jujutsu Kaisen 8 | Gege Akutami | 1,534,949 |
| 11 | Jujutsu Kaisen 13 | Gege Akutami | 1,531,848 |
| 12 | Jujutsu Kaisen 2 | Gege Akutami | 1,526,064 |
| 13 | Jujutsu Kaisen 12 | Gege Akutami | 1,521,362 |
| 14 | Jujutsu Kaisen 10 | Gege Akutami | 1,517,026 |
| 15 | Jujutsu Kaisen 11 | Gege Akutami | 1,511,238 |
| 16 | Jujutsu Kaisen 4 | Gege Akutami | 1,505,759 |
| 17 | Jujutsu Kaisen 7 | Gege Akutami | 1,505,348 |
| 18 | Jujutsu Kaisen 3 | Gege Akutami | 1,503,754 |
| 19 | Jujutsu Kaisen 6 | Gege Akutami | 1,492,324 |
| 20 | Jujutsu Kaisen 5 | Gege Akutami | 1,488,529 |
| 21 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 22 | Koyoharu Gotouge | 1,171,508 |
| 22 | Attack on Titan 33 | Hajime Isayama | 1,094,178 |
| 23 | SPY×FAMILY 6 | Tatsuya Endō | 1,086,102 |
| 24 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 19 | Koyoharu Gotouge | 1,005,455 |
| 25 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 18 | Koyoharu Gotouge | 1,005,265 |
Source: Oricon
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