Jujutsu Kaisen manga sold more than one piece in Japan this year

Oricon has released the list of best-selling manga in 2024 Jujutsu Kaisen is the best-selling manga series this year, followed by One piece. This is not the first time Jujutsu Kaisen is in first place on the annual chart, as the series has already achieved this in 2021 and 2022.

Last year, Blue castle topped the rankings and Jujutsu Kaisen was in second place, followed by One piece. It's important to note that the Oricon chart is about print sales, not digital sales. This information is important to understand the numbers.

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The best-selling manga in 2024

According to Oricon, Jujutsu Kaisen 7,610,995 copies sold and One piece sold 5,250,210. Other series in the top 5 are Freezing, The Pharmacists' Diaries And Blue castle. Haikyu!! is at No. 8, an impressive mark for a series that ended in 2020 (but the film likely had a positive impact on sales).

From 2008 to 2018, One piece was at the top every year. In 2019 Demon Slayer broke the “combo” and was the best-selling manga series of the year. Since, One piece never topped the charts again, but was always in the top 5. This all points to changes in the consumer behavior of manga readers, suggesting more diversity and competition between series. Until 2018, an established series dominated sales, but other and new series are now at the top of the charts.

But the numbers were strange. In 2019 One piece took second place with 10,134,232 copies sold. In 2020, it was in third place with over 7,000 copies sold (Demon Slayer was the first with an unsurpassed 82,345,447 copies sold and kingdom over 8,000 copies sold). In 2021, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer And Tokyo Revengers All have sold over 20,000 copies each (Attack on Titan And One piece over 7,000 copies sold each). In 2022, all top 4 series (incl One piece) have sold over 10,000 copies. Last year,Blue castle over 10,000 sold, followed by Jujutsu Kaisen (over 8,000,000) and One piece (over 7,000,000).

This all suggests that manga consumption reached a peak between 2020 and 2022, perhaps influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the numbers now appear to be declining to a similar pattern to the numbers we saw from 2013 to 2018 have seen. This could have many reasons: eventual loss of interest from the public, dispersion of readers (the manga market has more readers, but they read different things, so sales are not too focused on specific topics). series) and possibly a change in consumption format. Oricon manga charts are based on print sales. So when readers buy or read digitally, Oricon cannot judge these numbers.

What is the Oricon chart?

The Oricon chart is an estimate of manga sales based on information Oricon collects from bookstores and other stores. Therefore, Oricon charts do not necessarily reflect the entire reality of Japanese sales, but they are a good source for understanding the market. For this reason, their figures may differ from the publishers' official figures. However, publishers are generally concerned about copies in circulation (which are the copies the publisher sells to stores, so this is usually the transaction from which publishers make money), while Oricon tries to estimate actual sales to end users .

Source: Oricon via Josuke