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Here are the manga and light novel sales rankings for the fiscal year of 2015 (November 17, 2014 - November 22, 2015).

Manga Sales by Series
*1. 14,102,521 One Piece
*2. 10,304,112 Nanatsu no Taizai
*3. *8,778,048 Shingeki no Kyojin
*4. *8,605,861 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
*5. *8,569,215 Kingdom
*6. *6,531,508 Haikyuu!!
*7. *4,321,830 Shokugeki no Souma
*8. *4,188,158 Terra Formars
*9. *4,058,119 Prison School
10. *3,758,541 Tokyo Ghoul:re

11. *3,689,013 One Punch-Man
12. *3,638,637 Ao Haru Ride
13. *3,576,177 Tokyo Ghoul
14. *3,498,177 Naruto
15. *3,472,121 Fairy Tail
16. *3,355,844 Yowamushi Pedal
17. *3,199,971 Nisekoi
18. *2,940,024 Diamond no Ace
19. *2,850,718 Owari no Seraph
20. *2,820,526 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic

21. *2,818,926 Bleach
22. *2,735,269 World Trigger
23. *2,642,690 Gintama
24. *2,321,095 Orange
25. *2,308,421 Detective Conan
26. *2,304,674 Ore Monogatari!
27. *2,190,845 Boku no Hero Academia
28. *2,148,504 Hoozuki no Reitetsu
29. *1,979,421 3-gatsu no Lion
30. *1,957,229 Kuroshitsuji


Manga Sales by Volumes
*1. 3,185,018 One Piece Vol.76
*2. 3,020,137 One Piece Vol.77
*3. 2,977,466 One Piece Vol.78
*4. 2,810,583 One Piece Vol.79
*5. 2,000,137 Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.15
*6. 1,920,780 Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.16
*7. 1,807,155 Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.17
*8. 1,324,693 Naruto Vol.72
*9. 1,017,871 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.1
10. 1,012,500 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Vol.12

11. 1,009,550 Naruto Gaiden: Nanadaime Hokage to Akairo no Hanatsuzuki
12. *,997,782 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Vol.13
13. *,991,094 Haikyuu!! Vol.14
14. *,988,183 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.2
15. *,987,660 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Vol.14
16. *,974,184 Ao Haru Ride Vol.13
17. *,957,215 Ao Haru Ride Vol.12
18. *,952,338 Gin no Saji Vol.13
19. *,947,140 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Vol.15
20. *,935,354 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.3

Rank 21 - 100


Novel Sales by Series
*1. 1,220,217 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
*2. 1,175,978 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
*3. 1,050,446 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.
*4. *,927,413 Overlord
*5. *,883,833 Naruto Hiden Series
*6. *,788,895 Sword Art Online
*7. *,494,721 Kagerou Daze
*8. *,413,663 Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu Series
*9. *,405,666 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index
10. *,390,856 Sword Art Online: Progressive

11. *,380,413 Boukyaku Tantei Series
12. *,336,883 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria
13. *,333,922 Haikyuu!! Shousetsu-ban!!
14. *,326,179 No Game No Life
15. *,314,890 Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online
16. *,313,744 Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
17. *,313,159 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Tanpenshuu (Vol.6.5, 7.5, 10.5)
18. *,302,486 Owari no Seraph: Ichinose Guren, 16-sai no Hametsu
19. *,294,451 Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
20. *,289,046 Hataraku Maou-sama!

21. *,288,060 Monogatari Series
22. *,263,824 Date A Live
23. *,254,547 Bakemono no Ko (Kadokawa Bunko)
24. *,250,630 Kuroko no Basket: Replace
25. *,242,408 Seiken Tsukai no World Break
26. *,237,742 Accel World
27. *,234,809 Shinmai Maou no Testament
28. *,230,153 Hidan no Aria
29. *,226,010 Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
30. *,216,734 Naruto Shinden Series


Novel Sales by Volumes
*1. *,531,409 Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou Vol.6
*2. *,325,991 Sword Art Online: Progressive Vol.3
*3. *,285,081 Sword Art Online Vol.16
*4. *,255,785 Kagerou Daze Vol.6
*5. *,251,640 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.16
*6. *,247,532 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.15
*7. *,244,336 Bakemono no Ko (Kadokawa Bunko)
*8. *,224,761 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.10
*9. *,217,136 Naruto Hiden Series Vol.1
10. *,207,460 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.10.5

11. *,199,729 Coffee-ten Talleran Jikenbo Vol.4
12. *,194,973 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.17
13. *,187,465 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.11
14. *,168,810 Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.18
15. *,158,397 Naruto Hiden Series Vol.2
16. *,157,524 Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Vol.12
17. *,157,104 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.7
18. *,156,331 No Game No Life Vol.7
19. *,151,793 Haikyuu!! Shousetsu-ban!! Vol.5
20. *,148,228 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.9

Rank 21 - 44


Novels Separated by Specific Ranking


Source: Oricon Youtaiju

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Nov 29, 2015 1:53 PM
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One Piece goes hard
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Lol every single manga series in the top 30 on this list has an anime adaptation except Orange. Looks like Nanatsu no Taizai broke the 10M mark too, nice.
Nov 29, 2015 1:56 PM
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Nice for kingdom and Prison School.
All credit goes to Sacred.
Nov 29, 2015 1:56 PM
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9 years #1 in a row!
Nov 29, 2015 1:57 PM
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One Piece doin it again and again :DDDDd.
See, you people who said that One Piece will be dethroned this year :DDDD
Nov 29, 2015 1:59 PM
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9 years #1 in a row!

Thats impressiv :DDDD
Nov 29, 2015 1:59 PM
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Congrats to one piece always number 1.
Nov 29, 2015 1:59 PM
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Nanatsu above SnK? This is a travesty. Well at least Prison School is up there, so it softens the matters

DanMachi first place, ggwp I'm done
Nov 29, 2015 2:01 PM

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11. 1,009,550 Naruto Gaiden: Nanadaime Hokage to Akairo no Hanatsuzuki

Nice

*5. *,883,833 Naruto Hiden Series
30. *,216,734 Naruto Shinden Series

Pretty great for a novel spin off
Nov 29, 2015 2:03 PM

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Damn One Piece is practically unstoppable. It's also nice to see OPM at number 11. I'm sure the anime helped it out a lot.

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DanMachi first place, ggwp I'm done

Loli with big boobs = massive sales
People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime.

Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait.



Nov 29, 2015 2:04 PM

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Glad all shonen jump series sales doing well...
Nov 29, 2015 2:08 PM

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*1. 14,102,521 One Piece
*2. 10,304,112 Nanatsu no Taizai
*3. *8,778,048 Shingeki no Kyojin
*4. *8,605,861 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
*5. *8,569,215 Kingdom

Called it three months ago, Yeah!
Nov 29, 2015 2:11 PM

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Nice first time for a SnK regular edition volume to get the 2m mark in a single year.
Nov 29, 2015 2:13 PM
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Interesting. I thought there was a 53rd week for this year. I guess Oricon didn't count it?
Nov 29, 2015 2:14 PM

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That One Piece cover has to be the greatest image in the franchise
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10. *3,758,541 Tokyo Ghoul:re
13. *3,576,177 Tokyo Ghoul

That sums up to 7,334,718 million copies. It sold both more than Haikyuu and its last year sales.

*9. 1,017,871 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.1
14. *,988,183 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.2
20. *,935,354 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.3
30. *,817,133 Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.4

>Volume 1 actually managed to sell over 1 million

kek
Nov 29, 2015 2:14 PM

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Fairy Tail seems to be dropping year by year, like bleach.
Nov 29, 2015 2:17 PM

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Is it me or the LN sales this year are especially good? THe cut off seems quite higher than usual. And wow those danmachi sales. They were truly successfully in their business model with this one.

thebrentinator24 said:
Damn One Piece is practically unstoppable. It's also nice to see OPM at number 11. I'm sure the anime helped it out a lot.

robis798 said:
DanMachi first place, ggwp I'm done

Loli with big boobs = massive sales

Judging by the ranking of kono light novel ga sugoi 2016 that can be found a little lower on this news board, Hestia isn't even the favourite female character of LN readers in that series.
Loli with big boobs is mostly pleasing the anime watchers. LN readers won't really care because there is almost no ecchi (like 2 scenes in 5 volumes) anyway so big boobs are not isn't going to change a thing... Those bouncing things only bounce in that anime adaptation you know. Especially since Hestia's screentime % was artificially extremely increased in the anime. In the LN, she's irrelevant to the story in like half the arcs.
Nov 29, 2015 2:21 PM

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Dang places 3,4,5 were really close, pretty sure Kingdom will pass them all next year and end on place 2.

Looks like Gintama's new anime didn't help that much, it couldn't even push into top 20, or even pass Bleach lol.
Nov 29, 2015 2:21 PM

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Snow said:

Manga Sales by Series
*1. 14,102,521 One Piece
*2. 10,304,112 Nanatsu no Taizai
*3. *8,778,048 Shingeki no Kyojin
*4. *8,605,861 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu
*6. *6,531,508 Haikyuu!!
*7. *4,321,830 Shokugeki no Souma

Manga Sales by Volumes
*1. 3,185,018 One Piece Vol.76
*2. 3,020,137 One Piece Vol.77
*3. 2,977,466 One Piece Vol.78
*4. 2,810,583 One Piece Vol.79


These results please me, not that they weren't unexpected. One Piece still going strong! Also really happy for Ass Class, Attack on Titan, Haikyuu, Seven Deadly and Food Wars.
Nov 29, 2015 2:21 PM

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MysticLeviathan said:
Interesting. I thought there was a 53rd week for this year. I guess Oricon didn't count it?
Oricon did count it, this year had 53 weeks. They just went ahead and released this list the third monday after the 52nd week like they always do, even though it had 53 weeks.
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Fab to see One Piece at the top again, never doubted it. Pretty much unstoppable.

Fab to see the boosts for Shokugeki, Prison School and Kingdom up there. The former 2's anime adaptations worked a treat whilst that show (not quite sure of the name) gave Kingdom a massive boost. Elsewhere Fairy Tail, Nisekoi and Diamond no Ace remaining consistent.

As for LNs:

Disappointed that DanMachi just pipped Mahouka to number one but Mahouka's main boost was last year with some rolling into this. Yahari impressing yet again. Elsewhere nice to see Accel World, Date A Live and SAO still going strong.

Shame no High School DxD on the list but completely understandable since so few volumes have been released in the time period (2 and 1 DX book). The latter would be counted seperately anyway.

27. *,234,809 Shinmai Maou no Testament

Anime has done it's job which is fab to see. Shame it's not higher though but smaller number of volumes might contribute to that as well.
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So much emotions :'(
*4. *,927,413 Overlord


GOOD LORD :O
This is one hell of a cutoff line.
Even vol 9 which has over 110K sales didn't make it :'(

97. *,124,208 Overlord Vol.1
(cut-off 122,854)

Estimates for the other volumes:
Vol 2; 95K+
Vol 3; 90K+
Vol 4; 75K+
Vol 5; 75K+
Vol 6; 70K+
Vol 7; 70K+
Vol 8; 110K+
Vol 9; 110K+
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Ramkec said:
Dang places 3,4,5 were really close, pretty sure Kingdom will pass them all next year and end on place 2.

Looks like Gintama's new anime didn't help that much, it couldn't even push into top 20, or even pass Bleach lol.

No it will probably fall off the top 10.
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Ramkec said:
Dang places 3,4,5 were really close, pretty sure Kingdom will pass them all next year and end on place 2.

Looks like Gintama's new anime didn't help that much, it couldn't even push into top 20, or even pass Bleach lol.


Now that Kingdom is losing the boost it got in 2015, it's never going to reach those kind of numbers again.
Nov 29, 2015 2:28 PM

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Nice first time for a SnK regular edition volume to get the 2m mark in a single year.


^ this. But I wonder if they will release like the top 200 best selling volumes because I really want to know how much snk individual volumes sold overall with the limited editions.
Nov 29, 2015 2:28 PM

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Why is Biblia not in by series list too?
Nov 29, 2015 2:29 PM

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OPM was inches away from reaching the Top 10.

TG increased compared to last year but still got defeated by SNK.

Gintama with the new anime and cant beat Bleach.

OP is still the King of Kings.

Nov 29, 2015 2:30 PM

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Tokyo Ghoul going strong!
Nov 29, 2015 2:35 PM

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1,340,772 Fullmetal Alchemist vol.25
1,324,693 Naruto Vol.72
Naruto's final volume (it's best selling) failed to beat FMA's best selling volume.

75. *,502,390 Fairy Tail Vol.46
76. *,499,908 Fairy Tail Vol.47
77. *,498,888 Fairy Tail Vol.49
FT has the most loyal fanbase ever. A difference of sales in the dozens of copies, eh?
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AdmiralKizaru98 said:
Fairy Tail seems to be dropping year by year, like bleach.


Actually it sold more than it did last year, Bleach sales dropped this year tho.
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Ramkec said:
Dang places 3,4,5 were really close, pretty sure Kingdom will pass them all next year and end on place 2.

Looks like Gintama's new anime didn't help that much, it couldn't even push into top 20, or even pass Bleach lol.


Now that Kingdom is losing the boost it got in 2015, it's never going to reach those kind of numbers again.


Kingdom can get those numbers again if it has more anime content. But if it's the status quo with no anime etc. it probably won't even get half of what it got this manga sales year.
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If Nisio wrote more Monogatari volumes between the aforementioned timeline, it would've easily ranked higher and probably in the top 10.

DanMachi above Mahouka? Oh man..

Nov 29, 2015 2:38 PM

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AdmiralKizaru98 said:
Fairy Tail seems to be dropping year by year, like bleach.


Actually it sold more than it did last year, Bleach sales dropped this year tho.

Because it sold one more volume than previous year.
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Kingdom, TG sales might drop next year.

Bleach sales will definitely get worse, Magi might follow that path as well.

I agree with the poster that said FT has the most loyal fanbase, those are probably the fans that follow the manga because of the FS lol.

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Z4k said:
metsujin said:


Actually it sold more than it did last year, Bleach sales dropped this year tho.

Because it sold one more volume than previous year.


Well this are not the final sales, those should come out in december right? Around the 9th??
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AdmiralKizaru98 said:
Ramkec said:
Dang places 3,4,5 were really close, pretty sure Kingdom will pass them all next year and end on place 2.

Looks like Gintama's new anime didn't help that much, it couldn't even push into top 20, or even pass Bleach lol.

No it will probably fall off the top 10.


toutoune134 said:
Ramkec said:
Dang places 3,4,5 were really close, pretty sure Kingdom will pass them all next year and end on place 2.

Looks like Gintama's new anime didn't help that much, it couldn't even push into top 20, or even pass Bleach lol.


Now that Kingdom is losing the boost it got in 2015, it's never going to reach those kind of numbers again.


Damn fellas stop killing my hope. :(

Maybe they'll find a way to keep it up there.
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metsujin said:
Z4k said:

Because it sold one more volume than previous year.


Well this are not the final sales, those should come out in december right? Around the 9th??

This are the final sales.
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MysticLeviathan said:
toutoune134 said:


Now that Kingdom is losing the boost it got in 2015, it's never going to reach those kind of numbers again.


Kingdom can get those numbers again if it has more anime content. But if it's the status quo with no anime etc. it probably won't even get half of what it got this manga sales year.

The two anime it had didn't even let it sell a third of this, I don't even get how you can think it can sell 8 million again.
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Kingdom, prison school, one punch man are all doing great

also, nice to see boku no hero academia in there as well
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If someone told me that a Vol of Tokyo Ghoul would sell a million before the anime. I would think they're nuts or completely delusional.

Sui Ishida is drowning in money. 4 Vols of Re sold almost 4 million and that's not even adding the original series which would put it at 6th beating Haikyuu.
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Boku no Hero is also doing surprisingly good for a new series... damn the boost from the anime next year could possibly match the NNT one.
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19. *,294,451 Gate: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri
This is nice, I was wondering how it did, don't think any volume made it on the rankings during the airing of the anime.
Very nice.

Also, SAO: Progressive anime when?
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Agafin said:
MysticLeviathan said:


Kingdom can get those numbers again if it has more anime content. But if it's the status quo with no anime etc. it probably won't even get half of what it got this manga sales year.

The two anime it had didn't even let it sell a third of this, I don't even get how you can think it can sell 8 million again.


the only way it can achieve this again is with a new anime adaptation done properly
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Agafin said:

The two anime it had didn't even let it sell a third of this, I don't even get how you can think it can sell 8 million again.


the only way it can achieve this is with a new anime adaptation done properly

Not even with that, id say with a really good reboot and a movie and many advertisment.
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Expecting Kingdom to sell 8 million again is like expecting SNK to have another 1 million+ per volume boost. Less than 1% chance of happening imo.
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Bleach 2012 2,974,750
Bleach 2013 2,752,588
Bleach 2014 2,986,968
Bleach 2015 2,818,926

Fairy Tail 2012 4,128,665
Fairy Tail 2013 3,790,151
Fairy Tail 2014 3,275,885
Fairy Tail 2015 3,472,121

Gintama 2012 2,850,072
Gintama 2013 2,864,734
Gintama 2014 2,394,263
Gintama 2015 2,642,690

Detective Conan 2012 2,430,572
Detective Conan 2013 1,966,206
Detective Conan 2014 2,380,774
Detective Conan 2015 2,308,421
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29. *,226,010 Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry
Those anime boost make it in time.
Kickstarter for Rokujouma is fully funded. Good work everyone. Lets wait for the result of our hard work together.
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Forgot to include NNT to the list of series that will have a decrease of sales.

AssClass fanbase seems to be loyal as well.

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