 It’s no secret that Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga volumes are hard to find in Japan and hard to keep on the shelves. With some confirmed numbers and maths, let's take a fun look at where the series is compared to other popular series during the same time frame of their manga run.  With over 20 million copies sold as of Volume 17, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is up there as one of the biggest manga ever, with rumors (and maths) that the series has sold more than One Piece manga volumes have this year. Though, the data for that will be released by Oricon later in November. To compare with some other popular Shonen Jump series. One-Punch Man celebrated its 20th volume being released this year in Japan. The manga illustrator Yusuke Murata tweeted out an image of the manga cover with a slip-on it that announced the series has had 20 million copies in print as of its 20th volume.  For some more popular series, the chart above showcases the upwards trajectory of the ‘Big 3’ and My Hero Academia – though, in Japan, One Piece has always sold the most, with Naruto and Bleach near the top, but not always depending on the year and other series being released around the same time. While One Piece sales are literally off the chart, at the release of Volume 17 of their respective series, Naruto had sold 24 million copies in 2003, Bleach at 18 million copies in 2005, and My Hero Academia at 13 million copies in 2018. Demon Slayer, while trailing at the start of sales, shoots up when the anime series ended and has overtaken where Bleach was in 2005 at 20 million copies sold in Japan. When the anime for Bleach started in 2004, the series had 14 volumes on sale, which totaled 10 million total sales for the series. The anime series continued uninterrupted until it ended in 2012 at 366 episodes. Bleach would cross the 20 million copies sold mark at volume 18.  When Demon Slayer started airing its anime, the series had 15 volumes on sale. The total sales of all the volumes up to that point was 5 million copies. The series reached the 20 million sales mark with volume 17, which went on sale on October 4, 2019. Now, just before the release of volume 18 on December 4, it will be interesting to see if bookstores can keep their heads this time around. [Original Article] |
| That's a lot of copies especially in such a short amount of time;). Bless Ufotable for blessing this manga in which I like. |
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| Ufotable magic. I doubt it would be as popular if the anime is made by Pierrot. |
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DruMzTV said: Outperforming One Piece didn't work out as we can see from the Twitter post from shueisha. Demon slayer sold 10 mil, and one piece 12 mil There’s actually a lot of confusion about this topic, so I will just copy and paste what I wrote to one I was discussing with According to Shueisha Yearly Sales, OP sold 13M while KnY sold 10M. There’s something super off, by public known numbers Yaiba is supposed to be at 12+ million so how by Shueisha Yaiba is just around 10 million and One Piece suddenly jumps to almost 13 million? it just doesn't match at all, and if it includes digital Yaiba numbers should be much higher than 10 million. Don’t want to be that guy, but this sounds fishy to me. Kimetsu oricon with 0 weeks missing : 12,057,628. OP oricon with 7 weeks missing( upper boundary of 330,000 not aaccounted for) : 9,954,851. Also like mentioned before oricon does not include digital, so according to the article: Kny loses 2.2M OP gained 2.4-2.8M I don't think that Oricon, a completely indepentent actor that is active in literally every sector of the entertainment industry has a margin of error of over 25%, or else they wouldn't have a) existed for over a decade and b) wouldn't be able to get more and more data, as they for example managed to gain access to the KyoAni Bookstore this year. Another factor as to why this seems fishy is because they focus on september for KnY sales. Just seems all around weird as shit. Oricon doesn't have an agenda outside of upholding their reputation and doing their job, Shueisha does. There will be an awkward situation when Oricon Sales will come out in the next few days, ‘cause according to them KnY is #1 with 12M sales, while OP with 10M. So either the numbers were switched just for sake of OP being first, or Shueisha Sales are outdated to September. In any case, OP hasn’t sold that much. Thing is that Shueisha didn't bother to correct the number last year when OP didn't even reach 8.2 million because it was #1 anyway, according to Oricon at least. Which makes it even more suspicious |
XenocrisiNov 25, 2019 2:17 AM
Xenocrisi said: DruMzTV said: Outperforming One Piece didn't work out as we can see from the Twitter post from shueisha. Demon slayer sold 10 mil, and one piece 12 mil There’s actually a lot of confusion about this topic, so I will just copy and paste what I wrote to one I was discussing with According to Shueisha Yearly Sales, OP sold 13M while KnY sold 10M. There’s something super off, by public known numbers Yaiba is supposed to be at 12+ million so how by Shueisha Yaiba is just around 10 million and One Piece suddenly jumps to almost 13 million? it just doesn't match at all, and if it includes digital Yaiba numbers should be much higher than 10 million. Don’t want to be that guy, but this sounds fishy to me. Kimetsu oricon with 0 weeks missing : 12,057,628. OP oricon with 7 weeks missing( upper boundary of 330,000 not aaccounted for) : 9,954,851. Also like mentioned before oricon does not include digital, so according to the article: Kny loses 2.2M OP gained 2.4-2.8M I don't think that Oricon, a completely indepentent actor that is active in literally every sector of the entertainment industry has a margin of error of over 25%, or else they wouldn't have a) existed for over a decade and b) wouldn't be able to get more and more data, as they for example managed to gain access to the KyoAni Bookstore this year. Another factor as to why this seems fishy is because they focus on september for KnY sales. Just seems all around weird as shit. Oricon doesn't have an agenda outside of upholding their reputation and doing their job, Shueisha does. There will be an awkward situation when Oricon Sales will come out in the next few days, ‘cause according to them KnY is #1 with 12M sales, while OP with 10M. So either the numbers were switched just for sake of OP being first, or Shueisha Sales are outdated to September. In any case, OP hasn’t sold that much. Thing is that Shueisha didn't bother to correct the number last year when OP didn't even reach 8.2 million because it was #1 anyway, according to Oricon at least. Which makes it even more suspicious One Piece's undefeated king streak continues, it's official, stop with this conspiracy shit. "Shueisha has an agenda" lol Yaiba is owned by Shueisha, why the fuck would they downplay one of their own series success? Sorry Yaiba fans, close but no cigar. |
SuperRedNov 25, 2019 4:01 AM
SwordRed said: Xenocrisi said: There’s actually a lot of confusion about this topic, so I will just copy and paste what I wrote to one I was discussing with According to Shueisha Yearly Sales, OP sold 13M while KnY sold 10M. There’s something super off, by public known numbers Yaiba is supposed to be at 12+ million so how by Shueisha Yaiba is just around 10 million and One Piece suddenly jumps to almost 13 million? it just doesn't match at all, and if it includes digital Yaiba numbers should be much higher than 10 million. Don’t want to be that guy, but this sounds fishy to me. Kimetsu oricon with 0 weeks missing : 12,057,628. OP oricon with 7 weeks missing( upper boundary of 330,000 not aaccounted for) : 9,954,851. Also like mentioned before oricon does not include digital, so according to the article: Kny loses 2.2M OP gained 2.4-2.8M I don't think that Oricon, a completely indepentent actor that is active in literally every sector of the entertainment industry has a margin of error of over 25%, or else they wouldn't have a) existed for over a decade and b) wouldn't be able to get more and more data, as they for example managed to gain access to the KyoAni Bookstore this year. Another factor as to why this seems fishy is because they focus on september for KnY sales. Just seems all around weird as shit. Oricon doesn't have an agenda outside of upholding their reputation and doing their job, Shueisha does. There will be an awkward situation when Oricon Sales will come out in the next few days, ‘cause according to them KnY is #1 with 12M sales, while OP with 10M. So either the numbers were switched just for sake of OP being first, or Shueisha Sales are outdated to September. In any case, OP hasn’t sold that much. Thing is that Shueisha didn't bother to correct the number last year when OP didn't even reach 8.2 million because it was #1 anyway, according to Oricon at least. Which makes it even more suspicious One Piece's undefeated king streak continues, it's official, stop with this conspiracy shit. Sorry Yaiba fans, close but no cigar. Conspiracy? I’m just stating facts. You will see what I’m talking about once the Oricon Yearly Sales will be announced. And when KnY will be #1, everyone will be saying that the numbers are wrong just because OPbros want it to be #1. At the end of the day, it’s just a matter of what manga you want to take the crown for 2019 and which site you trust more. In my case I trust Oricon more. I’m not even mad tho lmao |
Xenocrisi said: SwordRed said: One Piece's undefeated king streak continues, it's official, stop with this conspiracy shit. Sorry Yaiba fans, close but no cigar. Conspiracy? I’m just stating facts. You will see what I’m talking about once the Oricon Yearly Sales will be announced. And when KnY will be #1, everyone will be saying that the numbers are wrong just because OPbros want it to be #1. At the end of the day, is just a matter of what manga you want to take the crown for 2019 and which site you trust more. In my case I trust Oricon more. I’m not even mad tho lmao Read my mini edit. Shueshia owns both Piece and Yaiba, their own numbers are as reliable as you can get. I'm an OP bro but the overall sales never bothered me, OP volumes still sell way more anyway. Almost outselling OP in any way is an achievement in itself, just take your silver prize. |
| @SwordRed yeah but I’m happy for both OP and KnY. I don’t care whether comes first or second, I just want manga to sell well because I care more the overall situation of the industry over this stupid war. What I wanted to say it that I just love to talk about this topic, because it has been a while since something this interesting (manga sales) happened. I don’t want you to misunderstand me, because as much as I’m a fan of KnY, I would never want OP to be beaten this easily, since that would mean crisis for the industry (OP has a big part on the matter). What I was doing was reporting numbers and overall opinions the internet is offering |
Xenocrisi said: @SwordRed yeah but I’m happy for both OP and KnY. I don’t care whether comes first or second, I just want manga to sell well because I care more the overall situation of the industry over this stupid war. What I wanted to say it that I just love to talk about this topic, because it has been a while since something this interesting (manga sales) happened. I don’t want you to misunderstand me, because as much as I’m a fan of KnY, I would never want OP to be beaten this easily, since that would mean crisis for the industry (OP has a big part on the matter). What I was doing was reporting numbers and overall opinions the internet is offering Ok then. As long as the industry and series is doing fine is what's actually important. |
| a great animated anime adaptation really can boost the source material sales the anime industry will take notice of this from now on im sure if they did not realize it by now when One Punch Man season 1 aired |
| Great news! What to say more? :) Bravo, Kimetsu no Yaiba! |
deg said: a great animated anime adaptation really can boost the source material sales the anime industry will take notice of this from now on im sure if they did not realize it by now when One Punch Man season 1 aired I've been saying this for a while, but man i could think of a few series that could take this community by storm if they had Proper adaptations. *cough* toaru majutsu no index *cough* *cough* Dimension W *cough* Pandora Hearts full adapation would be great as well it honestly astonishes me how many series are literally gold making that the anime industry producers shove off to the sidelines with low budget animations. |
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SwordRed said: Xenocrisi said: There’s actually a lot of confusion about this topic, so I will just copy and paste what I wrote to one I was discussing with According to Shueisha Yearly Sales, OP sold 13M while KnY sold 10M. There’s something super off, by public known numbers Yaiba is supposed to be at 12+ million so how by Shueisha Yaiba is just around 10 million and One Piece suddenly jumps to almost 13 million? it just doesn't match at all, and if it includes digital Yaiba numbers should be much higher than 10 million. Don’t want to be that guy, but this sounds fishy to me. Kimetsu oricon with 0 weeks missing : 12,057,628. OP oricon with 7 weeks missing( upper boundary of 330,000 not aaccounted for) : 9,954,851. Also like mentioned before oricon does not include digital, so according to the article: Kny loses 2.2M OP gained 2.4-2.8M I don't think that Oricon, a completely indepentent actor that is active in literally every sector of the entertainment industry has a margin of error of over 25%, or else they wouldn't have a) existed for over a decade and b) wouldn't be able to get more and more data, as they for example managed to gain access to the KyoAni Bookstore this year. Another factor as to why this seems fishy is because they focus on september for KnY sales. Just seems all around weird as shit. Oricon doesn't have an agenda outside of upholding their reputation and doing their job, Shueisha does. There will be an awkward situation when Oricon Sales will come out in the next few days, ‘cause according to them KnY is #1 with 12M sales, while OP with 10M. So either the numbers were switched just for sake of OP being first, or Shueisha Sales are outdated to September. In any case, OP hasn’t sold that much. Thing is that Shueisha didn't bother to correct the number last year when OP didn't even reach 8.2 million because it was #1 anyway, according to Oricon at least. Which makes it even more suspicious One Piece's undefeated king streak continues, it's official, stop with this conspiracy shit. "Shueisha has an agenda" lol Yaiba is owned by Shueisha, why the fuck would they downplay one of their own series success? Sorry Yaiba fans, close but no cigar. Shueisha is contradicting with Shueisha own numbers. that's the problem. |
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hazarddex said: deg said: a great animated anime adaptation really can boost the source material sales the anime industry will take notice of this from now on im sure if they did not realize it by now when One Punch Man season 1 aired I've been saying this for a while, but man i could think of a few series that could take this community by storm if they had Proper adaptations. *cough* toaru majutsu no index *cough* *cough* Dimension W *cough* Pandora Hearts full adapation would be great as well it honestly astonishes me how many series are literally gold making that the anime industry producers shove off to the sidelines with low budget animations. totally agree with Toaru Majutsu no Index they should have rebooted the series and be made by a better studio or staff |
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