Japan's Yearly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for 2020 (First Half)

Daniel_Naumov said:

Oh how disappointed I am in the most esteemed Japanese race... Thank you for this information.

Daniel_Naumov said:

Oh how disappointed I am in the most esteemed Japanese race... Thank you for this information.

Hannatach said:


http://sensescans.com/reader/series/kingdom/

Zefyris said:
... wait a minute kusuriya no hitorigoto 's LN is a 300,000 in 6 months? Woot? I've been reading it but I never knew that was this popular Oo. It's above even Overlord? How did that happen? ;O

keragamming said:
I have notice the interest in manga sales has dropped for a year or more, I remember a few years back there would be plenty of discussions on the thread and I'm going on other popular websites and I'm little discussion on those as well, so its not mal but just overall lost in interest.

Zefyris said:
... wait a minute kusuriya no hitorigoto 's LN is a 300,000 in 6 months? Woot? I've been reading it but I never knew that was this popular Oo. It's above even Overlord? How did that happen? ;O

kuuderes_shadow said:


It's long been a member of the increasingly small club of series that consistently get 30k+ sales per volume before dropping out the weekly rankings without any anime or live action adaptation. However since February last year it has somehow developed a spectacularly strong long tail, and it has only dropped off the weekly series rankings once since then (on w/c 23rd December 2019)

Kuma said:

reddit community one is more lively
https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/gs9orr/news_top_10_half_year_manga_sales_2020_by_oricon/

mootjee said:
Overrated anime! KnY should be grateful to Ufotoable. Only reason.

Zefyris said:

In other word, since the end of that one year hiatus and the vol 8 being published. I wonder what happened between those two volumes for it to gain such irregularly long trail.

youseiki said:

Simplest reason why I don't bother going in this place, just look at the comments, it's freaking 800, with at least 60,000 views. But to be fair, this place isn't bias unlike that site.

Detective1412 said:
No, no I wont take that KnY bait. Gonna commenting the other instead,

Top LN sales list is just like the other years, nothing new. Ok there's a new one, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, never heard it before.

oh wait SAO still continue? lmao Glad to see Overlord V14 there cuz yeah that's definitely hyped.

Oregairu last volume, as expected. Also it's good that last volume of KonoSuba is on top 10 tho.

Slime is still strong with its both manga and LN sales, if KnY not included, pretty sure Slime manga is gonna be on top 10, just like the other years.

Also damn, really need to catching up YouJitsu, already V12 huh.

Mahouka is also in the last stage of story, so yeah it's all good.

biswa290701 said:

Yeah I'm liking the LN list. Oregairu and Overlord ending probably boosted the sales.

Btw, just like you didn't ask when the big 3 will end when going strong, just like that you don't ask when SAO and Toaru will end. Lol. They are pretty much the driving forces behind the industry. I'm genuinely surprised that Toaru isn't in these lists for past 3 years.

Detective1412 said:

Oregairu and *KonoSuba.
Overlord will end in V17 iirc.

lol yea, been reading it till first volume of alicization, but it seems not my things so I don't really care about it.

Pretty sure Toaru NT already ended last year(?) We waiting for part 3 that coming this year.

Detective1412 said:
No, no I wont take that KnY bait. Gonna commenting the other instead,

Top LN sales list is just like the other years, nothing new. Ok there's a new one, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, never heard it before.

oh wait SAO still continue? lmao Glad to see Overlord V14 there cuz yeah that's definitely hyped.

Oregairu last volume, as expected. Also it's good that last volume of KonoSuba is on top 10 tho.

Slime is still strong with its both manga and LN sales, if KnY not included, pretty sure Slime manga is gonna be on top 10, just like the other years.

Also damn, really need to catching up YouJitsu, already V12 huh.

Mahouka is also in the last stage of story, so yeah it's all good.

Lelouch_Darsi said:


Ok, KnY fanboy, no need to be salty about someone's reasonable opinion.

Ramkec said:
OPbros..........

How do we recover this is insane, at least KnY is over.

biswa290701 said:

Btw, just like you didn't ask when the big 3 will end when going strong, just like that you don't ask when SAO and Toaru will end. Lol. They are pretty much the driving forces behind the industry. I'm genuinely surprised that Toaru isn't in these lists for past 3 years.

kuuderes_shadow said:


Index hasn't warranted mention in terms of "driving forces behind the industry" in many, many years now. If it ever was.

As an aside, I've always found it bizarre that Index is always the series that keeps getting mentioned in that sort of context - yes, it's a long runner, but there are others that have been around longer. Yes, it was one of the best selling series about 7 or 8 years ago, but it was never more than one of, and it hasn't even been that in a long time now. Plenty of more successful series have ended in that time.

And I very much doubt Kamachi would stop writing if he finished Index, so it wouldn't even mean losing a prominent author...

Koldmotro said:

Because according to Wikipedia, Toaru novels reached 30M sales in 2018 which is very rare for a novel series.

Kuma said:

same with slime, the manga adaptation exploded. first mentioned in kono manga sugoi award (not win but highly ranked), then win Tsugi ni Kuru manga few month after it. it's strong upward stream after it.

Zefyris said:

But we're talking about a LN, not a manga, and Slime LN has been doing good for a very long time (+ got an anime to help it, whereas Kusuriya did not)