As the year begins to wind down, now is a good time to see which are the best-selling manga in Japan during this year. I bet One Piece did pretty well!
Oricon, which tracks chart rankings, is listing sales numbers for the time period between December 5, 2016 and November 27, 2017.
Here at the top-ten total-selling manga releases for this year. The figures below are estimates.
10.) Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic - 2,713,074 copies presumed cold
9.) Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma - 2,792,441
8.) One Punch Man - 3,223,151
7.) The Seven Deadly Sins - 3,592,571
6.) Haikyu!! - 5,067,939
5.) Tokyo Ghoul:re - 5,303,514
4.) My Hero Academia - 5,852,310
3.) Kingdom - 6,184,214
2.) Attack on Titan - 6,622,781
1.) One Piece - 11,495,532
Here are the biggest selling individual manga volumes and chapters of 2017. As above, keep in mind that these are estimated sales figures.
20.) Kingdom Chapter 46 - 804,446 copies presumed sold
19.) Tokyo Ghoul:re Chapter 12 - 810,891
18.) Kingdom Chapter 47 - 817,998
17.) Silver Spoon Vol. 14 - 818,715
16.) Kingdom Chapter 45 - 825,973
15.) Tokyo Ghoul:re Chapter 11 - 846,406
14.) Haikyu!! Vol. 26 - 857,048
13.) Haikyu!! Vol. 25 - 869,374
12.) Haikyu!! Vol. 24 - 901,749
11.) One Punch Man Vol. 12 - 903,801
10.) Tokyo Ghoul:re Chapter 10 - 920,372
9.) Tokyo Ghoul:re Chapter 9 - 961,396
8.) Hunter x Hunter Vol. 34 - 1,258,337
7.) Attack on Titan Vol. 23 - 1,469,864
6.) Attack on Titan Vol. 22 - 1,649,614
5.) Attack on Titan Vol. 21 - 1,701,237
4.) One Piece Vol. 87 - 2,040,375
3.) One Piece Vol. 86 - 2,496,033
2.) One Piece Vol. 85 - 2,688,847
1.) One Piece Vol. 84 - 2,730,184
Oh look at that. One Piece did well. I was right!
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