Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Sep 25 - Oct 1
Rank / This week's sales by copies / Cumulative sales / Titles
*1. 98,550 *98,550 Overlord Vol.12
*2. 35,645 148,485 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.12
*3. 28,341 *47,009 Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol.14
*4. 20,226 *20,226 Knights & Magic Vol.8
*5. 19,468 *34,045 Hidan no Aria Vol.26
*6. 17,434 190,225 Sword Art Online Vol.20
*7. 10,026 *14,419 Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki Vol.13
*8. *9,275 **9,275 Kenja no Mago Vol.7
*9. *7,737 **7,737 Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu "Heart no Shuchou"
10. *7,108 *10,423 Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki Vol.3
11. *6,972 *25,129 Imouto sae Ireba Ii. Vol.8
12. *6,295 *22,250 Tokyo Ravens Vol.15
13. *5,750 **5,750 Isekai Tensei ni Kansha wo Vol.6
14. *5,455 *91,096 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.4
15. *5,392 **7,764 Tensei Ouji wa Daraketai Vol.3
16. *4,922 **6,777 Moto Kouzou Kaiseki Kenkyuusha no Isekai Boukentan
17. *4,799 *18,487 Gamers! DLC
18. *4,780 **4,780 Shounen Onmyouji "Kegare no Migiwa e Koishitau"
19. *4,764 **4,764 Tsukigami no Mederu Hana: Kotonoha no Senritsu
20. *4,548 *81,624 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.5
21. *4,159 *15,151 Oda Nobuna no Yabou Vol.19
22. *4,021 115,071 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.1
23. *4,048 **4,048 Sennen Sensou Aigis: Shiro no Teikoku-hen Vol.3
24. *4,032 **4,032 Moto Saikyou no Kenshi wa, Isekai Mahou ni Akogareru Vol.1
25. *4,007 **4,007 Ikinokori Renkinjutsushi wa Machi de Shizuka ni Kurashitai Vol.1
26. *3,974 **3,974 Saishin no Game wa Sugosugi daro Vol.6
27. *3,718 *14,619 Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. Vol.10
28. *3,073 **3,073 Isekai Trip no Wakiyaku Datta Ken
29. *2,979 **4,154 Boku no Slime wa Isekai Saikyou: Hoshoku Cheat de Chouseichou Shichaimasu
*2. 35,645 148,485 Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Vol.12
*3. 28,341 *47,009 Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol.14
*4. 20,226 *20,226 Knights & Magic Vol.8
*5. 19,468 *34,045 Hidan no Aria Vol.26
*8. 17,434 190,225 Sword Art Online Vol.20
19. *9,275 **9,275 Kenja no Mago Vol.7
22. *7,737 **7,737 Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu "Heart no Shuchou"
24. *6,972 *25,129 Imouto sae Ireba Ii. Vol.8
29. *6,295 *22,250 Tokyo Ravens Vol.15
33. *5,455 *91,096 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.4
37. *4,799 *18,487 Gamers! DLC
38. *4,780 **4,780 Shounen Onmyouji "Kegare no Migiwa e Koishitau"
40. *4,548 *81,624 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.5
45. *4,159 *15,151 Oda Nobuna no Yabou Vol.19
49. *4,021 115,071 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e Vol.1
48. *4,048 **4,048 Sennen Sensou Aigis: Shiro no Teikoku-hen Vol.3
50. *3,974 **3,974 Saishin no Game wa Sugosugi daro Vol.6
(cut-off 3,974)
Book
*1. 98,550 *98,550 Overlord Vol.12
19. 10,026 *14,419 Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki Vol.13
35. *7,108 *10,423 Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki Vol.3
(cut-off 6,315)
Literature Books Genre (duplicates removed)
*7. *5,750 **5,750 Isekai Tensei ni Kansha wo Vol.6
*8. *5,392 **7,764 Tensei Ouji wa Daraketai Vol.3
*9. *4,922 **6,777 Moto Kouzou Kaiseki Kenkyuusha no Isekai Boukentan
10. *4,764 **4,764 Tsukigami no Mederu Hana: Kotonoha no Senritsu
11. *4,032 **4,032 Moto Saikyou no Kenshi wa, Isekai Mahou ni Akogareru Vol.1
12. *4,007 **4,007 Ikinokori Renkinjutsushi wa Machi de Shizuka ni Kurashitai Vol.1
13. *3,718 *14,619 Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. Vol.10
18. *3,073 **3,073 Isekai Trip no Wakiyaku Datta Ken
20. *2,979 **4,154 Boku no Slime wa Isekai Saikyou: Hoshoku Cheat de Chouseichou Shichaimasu
(cut-off 2,979)
Source: Oricon Youtaijou
← Previous Week
20 of 32 Comments Recent Comments
@kuuderes_shadow by any chance, do you have any information on how latest SAO volume compares to the previous one in terms of sales in the same amount of time? I feel like the numbers are actually a bit lower than usual, but maybe its just me...
Oct 6, 2017 4:32 PM by TapuTapuu
2 weeks since release... So weak! Too weak it makes me sad. I've never seen it reach 60k sales.
You've never seen it because it's never happened. Or never been reported as happening anyway. The best sales figure for any volume of the series is just a tad over 50k, and even that was from 6 months of sales resulting from a perfectly timed release for the half-yearly rankings. If it had come out just 4 days earlier or possibly just a day or two later then it wouldn't have gotten into the bottom place on those rankings like it did, and we'd be talking about 43k for the best selling volume instead. Which was also the result of 5 months' sales. The series has only once seen a volume hit 35k on these weekly sales threads, and never 40k.
That's... really interesting to hear. Maybe it's because I tend to compare other LN to bigger series like SAO or Danmachi but TR always seemed moderately popular based on it's sales.
Oct 5, 2017 7:58 AM by Iron_Maw
Oct 5, 2017 6:27 AM by NeoAnkara
You seem very knowledgeable about these things. In your opinion, what do you think of its sales? Good or bad? If good then how good is it?
I'm just guessing but maybe the two-year hiatus is one of the reasons why the sales dropped?
I'd describe it as doing very well. Nothing more, nothing less.
The almost 2 year hiatus won't have helped, but there was the EX volume in between which might have dampened the effect somewhat. It's also worth noting that the entire market is seeing sales reported by Oricon as perhaps 20-25% lower than in 2015. This isn't due to a rapid decline in the light novel industry, but a result of the growth in the proportion of the market made up by e-books, which aren't reported by Oricon. This then probably accounts for at least half of the entire drop from the last volume to this one.
The latter half of that first sentence is the more likely one. People tend to overestimate the impact of the amount of fanservice in a series on its success in boosting source material. Indeed, the biggest successes are almost always series with little or no fanservice. Just look at the biggest sales boosts from anime over the last five years. Yes, there was NGNL, but that's surrounded by Overlord, Youjo Senki, Re:Zero, KonoSuba, OreGairu, YouJitsu, Maou-sama and DanMachi (in no particular order). In terms of physical size of boost (although not proportionate to previous sales) you could add Mahouka to that list as well. Yes, some of them have the odd bit of fanservice, but many of them don't, and none of them are fanservice heavy series.
It's worth noting, though, that the anime boost for Tokyo Ravens did turn it from a 15k seller to a 30k one, which is almost the same level of boost as SaeKano got, and SaeKano is usually regarded as a success in terms of sales boosts.
And I can say with absolute confidence that Tokyo Ravens is not going to get axed by the publisher any time soon.
Oct 5, 2017 6:11 AM by kuuderes_shadow
Maybe because it didn't have fanservice or maybe the fillers in the early episodes struck as boring to many people. It is sad because the LN is pretty damn interesting too. I really am just hoping the author will be able to properly wrap it up without him rushing it to its end because it got axed.
I thought the CGI was okay but those ear-cracking sounds! It always fucking startles me when something explodes and I have my speakers' volume on high. I can't even watch the fight scenes with the volume on high because of those sounds. Why did the studio's staff even decide with them?
Oct 5, 2017 6:05 AM by mizukasa
Maybe because it didn't have fanservice or maybe the fillers in the early episodes struck as boring to many people. It is sad because the LN is pretty damn interesting too. I really am just hoping the author will be able to properly wrap it up without him rushing it to its end because it got axed.
Oct 5, 2017 5:34 AM by NeoAnkara
2 weeks since release... So weak! Too weak it makes me sad. I've never seen it reach 60k sales.
You've never seen it because it's never happened. Or never been reported as happening anyway. The best sales figure for any volume of the series is just a tad over 50k, and even that was from 6 months of sales resulting from a perfectly timed release for the half-yearly rankings. If it had come out just 4 days earlier or possibly just a day or two later then it wouldn't have gotten into the bottom place on those rankings like it did, and we'd be talking about 43k for the best selling volume instead. Which was also the result of 5 months' sales. The series has only once seen a volume hit 35k on these weekly sales threads, and never 40k.
You seem very knowledgeable about these things. In your opinion, what do you think of its sales? Good or bad? If good then how good is it?
I'm just guessing but maybe the two-year hiatus is one of the reasons why the sales dropped?
Maybe because it didn't have fanservice or maybe the fillers in the early episodes struck as boring to many people. It is sad because the LN is pretty damn interesting too. I really am just hoping the author will be able to properly wrap it up without him rushing it to its end because it got axed.
Oct 5, 2017 5:21 AM by mizukasa
It's quite normal for new volumes of popular series to give a boost of a few hundred extra copies per volume for the past volumes. This week there was 12.8k copies of back volumes sold, against 13.6k last week. It was 11.7k the week before this latest volume came out. OreGairu on the other hand had been selling <3k backlog volumes per week (probably much less than this) before the latest volume came out, rising to 4.3k last week and then dropping to 3.2k this week.
No, it's been selling between 45 and 50k in the first two weeks since volume 10. The sales have actually been very stable.
Oct 5, 2017 5:11 AM by Nobidexx
I guess that's how sales from HJ Bunko is then. I want to ask about Kou 1 Desu ga too but it look like the result would be same.
It doesn't help that their releases came out at the end of the week this month.
Then again so did most other things this week - Kadokawa Beans Bunko released their number one and two best selling series in the week covered by this thread. Both Shounen Onmyouji and Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu have seen their sales drop hard over the last few years, but if the figures aren't much higher next week we're in unprecedented territory for sales drops for both and what was for quite a while the top LN label aimed at girls can be dismissed as all but dead. In comparison a few relatively successful series from a fairly minor label like HJ Bunko not quite making the rankings rather than just barely making them is not even noteworthy.
Oct 5, 2017 5:05 AM by NeoAnkara
Does ReZero still sell old volumes? It's below Oregairu by over 7k and it's above it here in total. Not like the new volume is bringing in amazing numbers in comparison to other things for those 7k to be justified, anything happen to promote old volumes?
It's quite normal for new volumes of popular series to give a boost of a few hundred extra copies per volume for the past volumes. This week there was 12.8k copies of back volumes sold, against 13.6k last week. It was 11.7k the week before this latest volume came out. OreGairu on the other hand had been selling <3k backlog volumes per week (probably much less than this) before the latest volume came out, rising to 4.3k last week and then dropping to 3.2k this week.
Oct 5, 2017 4:46 AM by Paulo27
For this week? No - only that it's less than 3974. The volume came out on Saturday, though, so should sell more in the current week than this one.
POS has it on 106th for Bunko, but that tends to give new volumes lower ranks than Oricon reports - Shounen Onmyouji is 90th on there, for instance, as opposed to 38th on Oricon's ranks, and it's ranked above Sennen Sensou Aigis on POS, which narrowly made the top 50 on Oricon's rankings (although it's below Saishin no Game wa Sugosugi Daro).
I would suspect it's in the 3000s.
It doesn't help that their releases came out at the end of the week this month.
Then again so did most other things this week - Kadokawa Beans Bunko released their number one and two best selling series in the week covered by this thread. Both Shounen Onmyouji and Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu have seen their sales drop hard over the last few years, but if the figures aren't much higher next week we're in unprecedented territory for sales drops for both and what was for quite a while the top LN label aimed at girls can be dismissed as all but dead. In comparison a few relatively successful series from a fairly minor label like HJ Bunko not quite making the rankings rather than just barely making them is not even noteworthy.
Oct 5, 2017 4:41 AM by kuuderes_shadow
Series rankings from Oricon website:
*1. Overlord
*2. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
*3. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru
*4. Sword Art Online
*5. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
*6. Knight's & Magic
*7. Hidan no Aria
*8. Kenja no Mago
*9. Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki
10. Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.
11. Imouto Sae Ireba Ii.
12. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
13. Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu
14. Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki
15. No Game No Life
16. Gamers!
17. Tokyo Ravens
18. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
19. Tensei Ouji wa Daraketai
20. Goblin Slayer
(Source: Oricon website)
It's quite normal for new volumes of popular series to give a boost of a few hundred extra copies per volume for the past volumes. This week there was 12.8k copies of back volumes sold, against 13.6k last week. It was 11.7k the week before this latest volume came out. OreGairu on the other hand had been selling <3k backlog volumes per week (probably much less than this) before the latest volume came out, rising to 4.3k last week and then dropping to 3.2k this week.
Oct 5, 2017 4:31 AM by kuuderes_shadow
For this week? No - only that it's less than 3974. The volume came out on Saturday, though, so should sell more in the current week than this one.
POS has it on 106th for Bunko, but that tends to give new volumes lower ranks than Oricon reports - Shounen Onmyouji is 90th on there, for instance, as opposed to 38th on Oricon's ranks, and it's ranked above Sennen Sensou Aigis on POS, which narrowly made the top 50 on Oricon's rankings (although it's below Saishin no Game wa Sugosugi Daro).
I would suspect it's in the 3000s.
Oct 5, 2017 4:23 AM by NeoAnkara
Series rankings from Oricon website:
*1. Overlord
*2. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
*3. Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru
*4. Sword Art Online
*5. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e
*6. Knight's & Magic
*7. Hidan no Aria
*8. Kenja no Mago
*9. Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki
10. Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.
11. Imouto Sae Ireba Ii.
12. Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
13. Kokuhaku Yokou Renshuu
14. Sozai Saishuka no Isekai Ryokouki
15. No Game No Life
16. Gamers!
17. Tokyo Ravens
18. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
19. Tensei Ouji wa Daraketai
20. Goblin Slayer
(Source: Oricon website)
And weird Youkoso volumes show up this week again when they didn't last week. Wonder if people got mad at the ending of the anime and wanted to send a message lol.
Oct 5, 2017 4:13 AM by Paulo27
I'm even afraid to ask what caused this. Is the original novel too weak, or is it simply not popular?
What makes you think it's not popular? It's comfortably within the and still the top 5% bestselling light novels, and is currently the 5th best selling series of one of the three big light novel labels in terms of the number of hits that come from them - and Tokyo Ravens is definitely one of those hits.
Just the above you talked about sales, so I made this conclusion. I apologize if I misunderstood you.
Oct 5, 2017 3:43 AM by RobertBobert
Ah, nice to see SAO, Re:Zero, Yahari and Overlord in the top.
nice to see SAO, Re:Zero and Overlord in the top.
sad to see Yahari in top
Oct 5, 2017 3:41 AM by thepath
Oct 5, 2017 3:32 AM by nymi
For this week? No - only that it's less than 3974. The volume came out on Saturday, though, so should sell more in the current week than this one.
POS has it on 106th for Bunko, but that tends to give new volumes lower ranks than Oricon reports - Shounen Onmyouji is 90th on there, for instance, as opposed to 38th on Oricon's ranks, and it's ranked above Sennen Sensou Aigis on POS, which narrowly made the top 50 on Oricon's rankings (although it's below Saishin no Game wa Sugosugi Daro).
I would suspect it's in the 3000s.
Oct 5, 2017 3:10 AM by kuuderes_shadow
You've never seen it because it's never happened. Or never been reported as happening anyway. The best sales figure for any volume of the series is just a tad over 50k, and even that was from 6 months of sales resulting from a perfectly timed release for the half-yearly rankings. If it had come out just 4 days earlier or possibly just a day or two later then it wouldn't have gotten into the bottom place on those rankings like it did, and we'd be talking about 43k for the best selling volume instead. Which was also the result of 5 months' sales. The series has only once seen a volume hit 35k on these weekly sales threads, and never 40k.
I'm even afraid to ask what caused this. Is the original novel too weak, or is it simply not popular?
What makes you think it's not popular? It's comfortably within the and still the top 5% bestselling light novels, and is currently the 5th best selling series of one of the three big light novel labels in terms of the number of hits that come from them - and Tokyo Ravens is definitely one of those hits.
Oct 5, 2017 3:00 AM by kuuderes_shadow
Search News
Related News
-
Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Aug 14 - 20 Aug 24, 2017 5:46 AM by Snow18 Comments
-
Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Aug 21 - 27 Aug 30, 2017 1:09 PM by Snow25 Comments
-
Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Jul 24 - 30 Aug 3, 2017 6:32 AM by Snow25 Comments
-
Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Jul 31 - Aug 6 Aug 10, 2017 3:50 PM by Snow19 Comments
-
Japan's Weekly Light Novel Rankings for Aug 7 - 13 Aug 17, 2017 7:50 AM by Snow27 Comments
MoreNew Anime
-
Manga 'Takopii no Genzai' Gets Anime
Today, 9:17 AM by DatRandomDude5 Comments
-
'Gag Manga Biyori' Gets Fifth Season in Spring 2025
Dec 3, 4:32 PM by Vindstot9 Comments
MoreWinter 2025
MoreSpring 2025
-
'Kuroshitsuji: Midori no Majo-hen' Announces Main Cast
Yesterday, 8:55 AM by DatRandomDude2 Comments
@kuuderes_shadow by any chance, do you have any information on how latest SAO volume compares to the previous one in terms of sales in the same amount of time? I feel like the numbers are actually a bit lower than usual, but maybe its just me...
It's not just you. From the refugee-chan sales thread: (sales - cum. sales - release date - # of days - volume)
104,221部 104,221部 17/02/10 ***3日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
*70,011部 174,232部 17/02/10 **10日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
*34,220部 208,452部 17/02/10 **17日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
*19,255部 227,707部 17/02/10 **24日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
*13,954部 241,661部 17/02/10 **31日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
**9,024部 250,685部 17/02/10 **38日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
**7,247部 257,932部 17/02/10 **45日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
**6,285部 264,217部 17/02/10 **52日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
**4,458部 268,675部 17/02/10 **59日 ソードアート・オンライン 19 ムーン・クレイドル
*88,376部 *88,376部 17/09/08 ***3日 ソードアート・オンライン 20 ムーン・クレイドル
*55,194部 143,570部 17/09/08 **10日 ソードアート・オンライン 20 ムーン・クレイドル
*29,221部 172,791部 17/09/08 **17日 ソードアート・オンライン 20 ムーン・クレイドル
*17,434部 190,225部 17/09/08 **24日 ソードアート・オンライン 20 ムーン・クレイドル
Oct 6, 2017 11:23 PM by kuuderes_shadow