Japan's Yearly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for 2017 (First Half)

Here are the manga and light novel sales rankings for the first half of the fiscal year of 2017 (November 21, 2016 - May 21, 2017).

Manga Sales by Series
*1.　5,969,851　One Piece
*2.　3,974,437　Shingeki no Kyojin
*3.　3,244,618　Kingdom
*4.　3,086,097　Haikyuu!!
*5.　2,154,752　Tokyo Ghoul:re
*6.　2,097,088　Boku no Hero Academia
*7.　1,982,356　One Punch-Man
*8.　1,881,062　Nanatsu no Taizai
*9.　1,653,403　Detective Conan
10.　1,469,092　Shokugeki no Souma

11.　1,366,004　Ao no Exorcist
12.　1,357,012　Magi
13.　1,204,705　Fairy Tail
14.　1,090,487　3-gatsu no Lion
15.　1,000,886　P to JK
16.　*,960,590　Nigeru wa Haji daga Yaku ni Tatsu
17.　*,936,645　Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen
18.　*,927,125　Terra Formars
19.　*,888,546　Diamond no Ace Act II
20.　*,879,495　World Trigger

21.　*,847,561　Tokyo Tarareba Musume
22.　*,833,135　Kuroshitsuji
23.　*,826,564　Days
24.　*,795,445　Gintama
25.　*,794,612　Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii
26.　*,794,342　Yowamushi Pedal
27.　*,791,393　Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Series Comicalize Series
28.　*,790,032　Black Clover
29.　*,757,375　Boruto: Naruto the Movie Comicalize Series
30.　*,752,854　Major 2nd

Manga Sales by Volumes
*1.　2,605,418　One Piece Vol.84
*2.　2,283,348　One Piece Vol.85
*3.　1,576,240　Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.21
*4.　1,405,736　Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.22
*5.　*,868,244　Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.9
*6.　*,867,000　Haikyuu!! Vol.24
*7.　*,848,678　One Punch-Man Vol.12
*8.　*,809,898　Haikyuu!! Vol.25
*9.　*,785,881　Tokyo Ghoul:re Vol.10
10.　*,782,182　Kingdom Vol.45

11.　*,699,579　Kingdom Vol.46
12.　*,677,862　Haikyuu!! Vol.26
13.　*,663,665　One Punch-Man Vol.13
14.　*,644,589　Nanatsu no Taizai Vol.24
15.　*,624,558　Detective Conan Vol.91
16.　*,620,152　Kuroshitsuji Vol.24
17.　*,610,792　Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii Vol.3
18.　*,563,907　Boku no Hero Academia Vol.12
19.　*,561,908　Dungeon Meshi Vol.4
20.　*,557,930　Nanatsu no Taizai Vol.25

Rank 21 - 100


Light Novel Sales by Series
*1.　*,707,300　Sword Art Online
*2.　*,578,811　Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
*3.　*,540,806　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
*4.　*,412,086　Kimi no Na wa.
*5.　*,344,286　Youjo Senki
*6.　*,299,957　Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
*7.　*,275,579　Rokudenashi Majutsu Koushi to Akashic Records
*8.　*,239,132　Eromanga-sensei
*9.　*,231,214　Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
10.　*,168,725　Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Spin-off

11.　*,155,631　Overlord
12.　*,155,625　Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
13.　*,151,679　Monogatari Series
14.　*,140,639　Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu Series
15.　*,137,160　No Game No Life
16.　*,123,136　Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Gaiden: Sword Oratoria
17.　*,117,210　Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
18.　*,108,564　Goblin Slayer
19.　*,104,018　Hidan no Aria
20.　*,*96,624　Fate/strange Fake

21.　*,*96,200　Bungou Stray Dogs
22.　*,*94,469　No Game No Life: Practical War Game
23.　*,*93,118　Accel World
24.　*,*88,653　Haikyuu!! Shousetsu-ban!!
25.　*,*87,316　Imouto sae Ireba Ii.
26.　*,*85,505　Gamers!
27.　*,*84,372　Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou
28.　*,*80,553　Tokyo Ghoul:re
29.　*,*79,133　Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index
30.　*,*76,801　Ryuuou no Oshigoto!


Light Novel Sales by Volumes
*1.　*,285,125　Sword Art Online Vol.19
*2.　*,264,066　Kimi no Na wa. (Kadokawa Bunko)
*3.　*,173,046　Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.21
*4.　*,148,020　Kimi no Na wa. (Kadokawa Tsubasa Bunko)
*5.　*,129,377　Monogatari Series: Off Season "Musubimonogatari"
*6.　*,102,985　Youjo Senki Vol.1
*7.　*,101,480　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol.11
*8.　*,*95,920　Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Vol.11
*9.　*,*92,710　No Game No Life: Practical War Game
10.　*,*91,034　Accel World Vol.21

11.　*,*80,553　Tokyo Ghoul：re "Quest"
12.　*,*79,431　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol.12
13.　*,*74,491　Kimi no Na wa. Another Side: Earthbound
14.　*,*71,009　Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Spin-off: Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen wo! Vol.4
15.　*,*69,463　Meitantei Conan Karakurenai no Love Letter
16.　*,*63,055　Youjo Senki Vol.2
17.　*,*61,604　Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Vol.10
18.　*,*60,501　Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! Vol.1
19.　*,*60,135　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol.1
20.　*,*59,791　Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Vol.9

Rank 21 - 41



Source: Oricon Youtaiju

NGNL had no volume in this time period. Still that's quite a good amount of back log over 100k.

Remember to double or triple the sales to get an accurate sense of the total sales since digital sales aren't counted in this list.

F :'(
69.　*,255,116　Toriko Vol.43
77.　*,239,555　Toriko Vol.42

Greato.
22.　*,*58,999　Bleach: We Do Knot Always Love You

Nice, and it doesn't even have a vol out this year yet.
11.　*,155,631　Overlord

I'm glad to see these manga and ln in here!

Good to see Kingdom so high up! Season 3 when?

really sad how much Index drops with each passing year.

Glad to see some of my fav series in the top ten for the manga list and in the LN list.

Naisu desu, glad to see so many good manga/LN on the high rankings.

Really, sales of SAO are impressive...

76.　*,243,641　Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. Vol.3

OMG WTF??? I CANT BREATH. FIRST YAOI APPEAR IN YEARLY LIST??? I DONT KNOW IM SO HAPPY.

Seriously Japan, I don't know why they love this manga but I'm glad there is a BL in this list. First time in my life, I see a BL I'm yearly list tbh.

*3.　3,244,618　Kingdom

Riboku-sama boosted the sales.

One piece had only 2 volumes released?

S3 when ;_;. Dying waiting here.

Good to see Barakamon up there selling well!..Season 2 when?

Good to see Konosuba doing well, but see Re:Zero almost sales as much without new seasons is insane (a little bit salty, since Im a big Konosuba LN fan). Then again, as long as Konosuba still selling OK, I am happy XD

Re:Zero released 2 volumes then Konosuba released only 1 volume during this period. You have to look at volume sales rather than total sales.

Kimi no Na wa is not far from becoming the best selling LN volume of all time with 1,882,747 copies sold.

*9.　2,179,345　Tokyo Ghoul:re (2016)
*5.　2,154,752　Tokyo Ghoul:re (2017)

That consistency though.

27.　*,454,624　One Piece Vol.83
released first week of november.



You wanted to say S1 remastered with complete plot when :)

As expected of Kirito-sama...

A beater is always #1 :) :)


Mhhh... I'm now wondering what the heck is happening in SnS... :/

OP is top again. Nothing new here. Come one, we need Kingdom and Tokyo Ghoul Season 3. WOW! CCS is selling well after all these years.

Mahouka still up there even with having only one volume released so far this year, I guess the other 120k came from the movie hype boost

Hero Academia almost cracked the Top 5, but this is still a victory nonetheless :D....Happy for Re:Zero, KonoSuba and most of all Youjo Senki too (Nice to see Akashtic Records getting some love as well)

Not surprised to see One Piece and SAO taking the top spots though xD

Ya meant Ousen, right?

It's unusual to see that several titles from less famous publishers have bypassed or leveled off with one of Dengeki's top hits. I'm glad that ReZero is still selling well without a boost and is amazed that Rokudenashi eventually even went around Eromanga.

*6.　2,097,088　Boku no Hero Academia
*7.　1,982,356　One Punch-Man
11.　1,366,004　Ao no Exorcist

great sales hoping for more anime sequels

and i wonder when will the manga industry report on digital sales too because i heard news that print manga are declining in sales while digital manga sales are rising

Most of these doesn't surprise me tbh. Glad to see 3-gatsu no Lion up there with the anime boost though.

I should give Detective Conan a try in the future...been holding that one off for awhile. Also hoping for Kingdom S3 in the future.

Great to see Kingdom still doing so well this late in the game

Overall, manga sales have a little fallen compared to the first half of 2016. Hierarchy has no major upheaval compared a year ago: some series that had benefited from a boost (anime or live) disappear logically, leaving their place to Other series.
My Hero Academia did not move in global sales but at the volume level yes (effect season 2 limited), while NNT lowed as there was a one month lag in its releases due to Suzuki's hospitalization in December (we see that if Volume 26 was released in April as usually, NTT could have climbed to sixth place).
Blue Exorcist, March Comes in a Lion and Yowamushi Pedal enjoy a "anime boost". Days (Magazine), Diamond no Ace Act II (Magazine) and Black Clover (Jump) appear this year in the top because in the end there is weak "anime effect" on this first half compared to last year: series between 700 000 and 900 000 have thus returned this year in the top mechanically: this year the #30 is at 752 854 whereas last year the #30 was at 920 185.
In general, these sales in the first half 2017 are therefore little affected by "anime boost".

The ranking according to the maximum sale of one volume (in brackets the best selling of a volume):
01. One Piece (2,605,418)
02. Shingeki no Kyojin (1,576,240)
03. Tokyo Ghoul:re (868,244)
04. Haikyuu !! (867,000)
05. One Punch-Man (848,678)
06. Kingdom (782,182)
07. Nanatsu no Taizai (663,665)
08. Detective Conan (624,558)
09. Kuroshitsuji (620,152)
10. Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii (610,792)
11. My Hero Academia (563,907)
12. Dungeon Meshi (561,908)
13. Blue Exorcist (543,929)
14. Kimi ni Todoke (529,726)
15. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen (493,613)

Now I'm super satisfied to see P to JK, Kingdom, Wotaku, Boku no Hero doing so well. Also glad for One Piece, but that always does well. Tokyo Tarareba Musume has caught my interest, but sadly no translations or rips from Kodansha are out yet.

Eh, I don't think that's not quite accurate, IIRC Konosuba released a spin-off novel in the same period too. Since this this counting total series sales by that period and not just main volumes that would be included in this number. It's a good showing for both of them though, but this definite shows the strength of Re:Zero's staying power long after the anime has ended.

EDIT: Whoops, looking at the list again the spin-off is counted separately. Weird.



Yep. Regardless of where it ends up on chart, it is still maintaining it's base. That's excellent sign for longevity.

Nice to see SnK is still holding out despite its sales boost having ended years ago.

I really need to hop on that Kingdom hype train, though. :feelsthinkingman:

According to someanithing (http://www.someanithing.com/7331) Moshidora is the best selling LN that ever appeared on MAL with 2,323,668 sales.
I can see Kimi no Na wa reach 2M by the end of the year without a problem but 2,3M+ might be a bit hard.

And it's interesting to see SAO sold around 23,454 copies for each volume outside of volume 19.
Guess it's the boost of the movie, that alone should already already fund a good chunk of it.

And some numbers don't add up.
94,469　No Game No Life: Practical War Game
92,710　No Game No Life: Practical War Game
Shouldn't these be the same?

And Accel World barely sold anything outside the new volume.
93,118　Accel World
91,034　Accel World Vol.21

Happy to see Tokyo Tarareba Musume from Higashimura Akiko, about the others on the list i don't care for the 90% of them.

NGNL Practical war game had two different editions.

Happy that Tokyo ghoul and Magi are doing great even though their anime ended a while ago.

OP being OP as usual xD

Re:zero needs to stop selling so they can push the season 2 faster.

Since anime is made to boost source material's sales lol

accel world in there almost 100k nice

11.　*,*80,553　Tokyo Ghoul：re "Quest"

Dayumm forgot that there was a new novel XD...Pretty surprised it actually managed to rank that high~

while I can't say for certain since I just don't have the information on hand, but iirc this is at least wrong for the monthly reports:
The KonoSuba (main) series as well as the spin-off series are treated as different series in the cumulated series report. I'm fairly sure I have seen both in the list at the same time before as well. So unless for some reason the yearly report treats this differently than the monthly report the number up there should not include the spinoff sales

//edit Oh just doublechecked, it's even in this one lol. KonoSuba at 578,811, spinoff at 168,725
And saw your edit, my bad :P

Eromanga and Rokudenashi anime are still ongoing so I would rather check the yearly LN sales results instead for these two.

It kinda feels like Oricon rankings are losing their luster with the prevalence of digital manga now. I really wish we could get rankings that include digital manga, or at the very least a separate ranking for digital manga where we can add up both to see how things go, and to see how different sales are from series to series when comparing physical to digital.

true , no one can beat him

can't wait for the announcement of s3
the salt will be strong

happy for kingdom and ccs

tokyo tarareba musume and wotaku's sales are very impressive, tho the former had that super popular drama which helped boosting the sales

My two favorite manga, One Piece and Attack on Titan, have the #1 and #2 spots respectively.

Nice.

One Piece and Titan doing their things.

SAO is still selling like hotcakes, as well.

76.　*,243,641　Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. Vol.3




OMG. I'm so surprised! \o/

Anime when?
Well, type-Moon is milking Fate/Sabre so much they might as well adapt this and all other spin-offs left before 2020...

Goblin Slayer on the other hand, need OVAs. No censorship on my dark-fantasy medieval guro rapefest, please.

Also, why is Biblia Koshodou no Jiken Techou only appearing on the specific Bunko ranking?

Awwwww yeah. Goblin slayer Though I hope it never gets an Anime Adaptation :L.

it was already announced to continue at the end of ordinal scale