Japan's Yearly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for 2019

Here are the manga and light novel sales rankings for the fiscal year of 2019 (November 19, 2018 to November 17, 2019).

Manga Sales by Series
*1.　12,057,628　Kimetsu no Yaiba
*2.　10,134,232　One Piece
*3.　*7,661,361　Kingdom
*4.　*7,454,745　Yakusoku no Neverland
*5.　*5,895,000　5-toubun no Hanayome
*6.　*5,047,574　Boku no Hero Academia
*7.　*4,704,234　Shingeki no Kyojin
*8.　*4,514,838　Haikyuu!!
*9.　*4,096,492　Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen
10.　*3,414,482　Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken

Manga Sales by Volume
*1.　2,388,243　One Piece Vol.91
*2.　2,200,000　One Piece Vol.93
*3.　2,112,734　One Piece Vol.92
*4.　1,880,146　One Piece Vol.94
*5.　1,344,500　Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.27
*6.　1,172,448　Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.28
*7.　*,955,124　Shingeki no Kyojin Vol.29
*8.　*,926,446　Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol.17
*9.　*,877,366　Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol.16
10.　*,863,994　Kingdom Vol.53

11.　*,850,606　Kingdom Vol.54
12.　*,833,472　Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol.15
13.　*,831,797　Boku no Hero Academia Vol.21
14.　*,821,222　Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol.14
15.　*,809,855　Kingdom Vol.55
16.　*,801,584　Yakusoku no Neverland Vol.12
17.　*,775,064　Boku no Hero Academia Vol.22
18.　*,741,903　Yakusoku no Neverland Vol.14
19.　*,698,372　Haikyuu!! Vol.35
20.　*,695,864　One Punch-Man Vol.18

Rank 21 - 50


Light Novel Sales by Series
*1.　879,734　Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
*2.　634,151　Tenki no Ko (Kadokawa Bunko)
*3.　615,363　Sword Art Online
*4.　550,202　Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
*5.　536,494　Seishun Buta Yarou Series
*6.　461,024　Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
*7.　434,034　Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
*8.　429,217　Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
*9.　420,573　Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
10.　407,640　Kimetsu no Yaiba: Shiawase no Hana

Light Novel Sales by Volumes
*1.　511,159　Tenki no Ko (Kadokawa Bunko)
*2.　253,739　Sword Art Online Vol.21
*3.　210,966　Kimetsu no Yaiba: Shiawase no Hana
*4.　209,031　Kimi wa Tsukiyo ni Hikarikagayaku
*5.　196,674　Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kataha no Chou
*6.　171,203　Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.13
*7.　157,440　Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.14
*8.　147,259　Detective Conan: The Fist of Blue Sapphire
*9.　143,769　Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.15
10.　140,405　Sword Art Online Vol.22

11.　135,239　Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Vol.14
12.　130,320　Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.28
13.　124,651　Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Vol.29



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Another successful year for manga and light novel series.

Hopefully a fan war between OP and KnY won’t happen in this thread

Anyway, #BringBackWeeklySalesThread

Good to see an increase for manga sales for the top series, 9 mil of last years' overtaken by a whooping 12 mil this year!

One Piece has finally been beaten and I'm sure most people were seeing this coming, in all honesty. Rumors of this were abuzz but actually seeing it happen was a little tough to come to terms with, even now to this point in fact. But hey, One Piece obviously wasn't going to retain that position forever so it's more like the start of a new era for the manga industry now (or is it?).

Pleasing to see Gotoubun no Hanayome and Kaguya-sama: Love is War join the ranks now too, credits to both the teams behind the respective anime to propel both of these to the top 10. Can't wait to see Season 2 of both of these!

Surprised that Shingeki no Kyojin manga sales have decreased, albeit slightly, from last year though. I've been keeping away from the manga intentionally so I don't know the specifics but I've been hearing a lot of rumors, speculations and reactions so I figured it was going to be in the top 5 actually. A little disappointed by this, to be frank, but I'm glad it's still in the list. It better be in the top 3 next year!

Didn't think the ln version of Tenki no Ko would fare this well either, nice surprise. Happy to see Re:Zero, Seishun Buta Yarou and Mahouka in the list too. Curious on "Kusuriya no Hitorigoto" though, hopefully an anime adaption of this is in the working so anime-onlies like I can have a go at this story.

And of course #BringBackWeeklySalesThread, thanks for reminding NeoAnkara!

Just looking at the lists, it makes me so happy that we're currently at a time where each and every of the manga shows are either getting a continuation of some format or currently airing already. A fair number of light novels too, to make things even better.

And of course #BringBackWeeklySalesThread, thanks for reminding @NeoAnkara!

Damn, that surge that Kimetsu No Yaiba got, definitely deserved. What I’m even more happier about is the Quintessential Quintuplets and Kaguya Sama:Love Is War. Both of these anime’s were great, Kaguya-Sama being on of my favourites of the year, and it’s amazing seeing the surge in popularity and sales for these two, can’t wait to see their second seasons!!! Also, where’s Dr.Stone, The Promised Neverland, Shield Hero and Beastars? Lol

Look closely...the Promised Neverland is there.

Finally

MHA and AoT are beaten by harem manga

12m in a year... what is even the selling point of kimetsu no yaiba?
isnt it just a demon slaying shounen?

safe to say One Punch Man is top 15 then even with that bad season 2 of an anime

and Sword Art Online is still selling like hotcakes but i heard its the final arc of the series

and found an explanation about the question of who should we trust between Shueisha and Oricon https://twitter.com/TwtOtaku_My/status/1199927077664780288

And so finally OP was beaten after 11 years.

I have mixed thoughts. On one hand I like both of the shows. Both are 8/10 for me. But I have seen and I am more connected to characters in OP than Demon Slayer. But I know that it will change over the period of time.

And yeah, happy for TenSura.

Still the light novel sales are much lower than the manga sales. Even popular series like Sao cannot compete with similarly popular series like aot and mha. Would like to see an increase there as some light novels are much better than mangas thus giving us more light novel animes. 😁

demon overratedslayer on no1 is very yikes, a garbage harem manga being this high is also????

mha shouldn't be there either, snk should be higher

rest is the same as usual.

@light_of_amphy shield hero is at the place where it belongs, in the trash

big numbers! (⊙o⊙)

KnY overrated as fuck. Be grateful to Ufotable because of one episode.

I don't care but #BringBackWeeklySalesThread

Salty that OP was beaten? That's just how it it, more popular/better manga according to Japs won, deal with it.

OP isn't on top for once, but KnY had a huge year with its anime adaptation so this isn't too surprising. Of course this thread has the obligatory salt, it wouldn't be a MAL thread without it xD.

Also I agree, #BringBackWeeklySalesThread.

just adding to the echo here #BringBackWeeklySalesThread

Nah, I like KnY (the anime at least, didn't read the manga yet) but it had everything going in their favor. It got a new anime and the anime was adapted by fucking ufotable which is like a godsent gift. Then, seeing as it was its first anime season it had MANY people wanting more, so maaaany people started buying every volume available which is obviously a huge factor.
By now OP mostly gets its numbers from the newly released volumes (just look at the top selling volumes, damn 1st through 4th place) and since Oda takes his breaks every few weeks, there are not THAT many volumes per year.

I'm not shitting on KnY but to see if it really surpassed OP in popularity can only be seen in next year's sales when most of the newer fanbase caught up with the currently available volumes and at that point, I don't think it can beat OP (yet).


tl;dr: high quantity with good quality (KnY) will almost always beat low quantity with great quality (OP)


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Happy to see that 3-gatsu is doing well. Season 3 when?

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finally they revealed the yearly sales of other weekly jump's manga
wow doctor stone did better than world trigger and black clover
- Dr. Stone: 1 821 993 copies
- Black Clover: 1 741 052 copies
- Jujutsu Kaisen: 1 571 697 copies (with volume 0: 1 807 628 copies)
- World Trigger: 1 406 852 copies
- Shokugeki no souma: 1 364 003 copies
- Dragon Ball Super: 1 321 679 copies
- bokutachi wa benkyou ga dekinai: 1 253 699 copies
- Act-Age: 1 235 954 copies
- Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Hokkaido-Hen: 942 079 copias
- Jigokuraku: 927 019 copies
- Slam Dunk: 877 945 copies
- spy x family: 754 067 copies
- Boruto: 600 845 copies
- Chainsaw-Man: 410 753 copies (does not include fourth volume sales)
- D. Gray-Man: 336 841 copies (just one volume)
source: https://twitter.com/ani_for_arabs/status/1200146583435849729
ps: please follow this dude he did have good news from time to time.
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Light novel market is much smaller compared to manga. It's why the manga adaptation of slime sells much more than the LN, for example (which is not that normal btw, manga adaptations of LN don't make big numbers like that)

It would have been cool to see One Piece complete a 20 year winning streak, but congrats to KNY.

I think the volume sales are the real indicator on which are the 10 best yearly sellers and "who is beating who".


I forgot why MAL stopped posting the weekly sales, but

Booohooo baby is salty that AOT got beaten out by a harem manga & other "overrated" series. That is hilarious. XD

https://www.crunchyroll.com/en-gb/anime-news/2019/11/25/eiichiro-odas-one-piece-confirmed-as-top-selling-manga-of-this-year

https://twitter.com/Eiichiro_Staff/status/1198806266954444801

I mean it's the Quintuplets vs. the Titans. It's anyone's guess who would be winning, lol.

Congrats to Kimetsu, it's finally getting the recognition and love it deserves.

Holy shit I didnt know kaguya was that huge, I'm sure its from the anime boost but still jesus, Aka has come a long way from making a canceled angsty action manga

Freakin' finally Wan Piss lost its undeserved crown after a long time.

Preach it!

Congratulation to Kimetsu no Yaiba for beating One Piece. I'm a fan of both manga. Kingdom at number 3. Brilliant. Look forward for season 3.

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back then, i was like "well, there is still ANN but then they also stop reporting it and then fuck me. the only way to found them is browsing hard to search forum post in mangahelper. god, what a disaster.



good adaptation didn't automatically give original source sales. as well bad adaptation either.

Ufotable did a hell of a job boosting interest in the manga and getting people to buy over 7M of the manga's previous volumes. I can image Shounen Jump will be using them as much as they can in the future.

Still OP is selling well over 2M a volume and KNY is yet to break 1M a volume.
It'll be interesting the see if the interest in the series increases next year too.

On a side note: It's interesting that OP last year and this year sold 4 volumes, but sales have gone up by 2M, no doubt down to Wano.
If you look at MHA, last year is sold 4 volumes, this year 5 and it's sales have gone down almost 2M.



I'm so sad that Oda making a mint selling millions of his acclaimed manga series pains you so much. It must be really hard for you .........

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Congrats to Kimetsu no Yaiba! Ufo adaptation was top tier even though the story was basically "non-stop shonen fights" and it's not a good thing honestly.

If only we could get the weekly manga volume sales list, MAL would be back to its glory days. We looked forward to those sales list so much. Please, please, PLEASE bring them back!

Good for Demon Slayer, Kaguya-sama, and Quintuplets, you kids deserve it, especially since all three of you won't last too long, since romance series don't last too long these days and Kimetsu no Yaiba seems as though it's pretty far along, or so I've heard

That's surprising

Good for Kaguya-sama and The Quintessential Quintuplets

One Piece bros hold me, how could this happen for us to get beaten by some trash ass demons killing manga.

This can't be happening.

Btw glad for Kingdom at no.3, slowly but steadily rising up.

Good Demon slayers top one well deserve better than shitty mainstream shounen like one piece and most of them are overrated anyway.

Glad too see SNK is up there Still awesome :)

Let it happen if the fans wanna do it. Otherwise it will be too quiet and not much people will know about it but I will like to see op and kny fans being intelligent more than Stoopid tho.

How do you define overrated 😂. People rating it highly due to liking?

It can happen if you op Bros underestimate everything. 😑😑

Ask Tokyo ghoul's stupid adaptation. Many fans read the manga of it. Adaptation of KNY increased it's sales by a lot.

You know nothing about Wan piss. It was made by Japan in 19th century and ruled consistently over a century for back to back 101 years. It lost its crown in 1905 but again gained it in 1935 for 851 days. Then it ended. It retired with the crown. After WW2 it's volumes and author hot destroyed. New crown was then made. One piece is not even close to Wan Piss.

i really dislike people discredit manga success "well, it's anime works". as much as good anime is, if people disinterested with manga, they wouldn't buy it (look at you Fire force). this not special to KnY. as hard as a company put advertise, if the product is not satisfying, it wouldn't sell. people have been saying this for years.

Thanks for the lesson sensei.

Calm down. Your ass is burning. Control it or it will catch up to your baby maker.

One thing I do agree with you: Why Snk didn't sell more as I heard it's getting better and better in the manga?

Because digital market is on the rise, not many people are buying physical copies anymore as they use to. Attack on Titan does well in digital sales too.

Oh, thanks for the information.