More than one Jujutsu Kaisen manga was sold in Japan this year.

Oricon has released the list of best-selling comics in 2024. Do a jujutsu It was selected as the best-selling manga series of the year. one piece. this is not the first time Do a jujutsu The series has already topped the annual charts in 2021 and 2022.

last year, blue rock took first place in the rankings, Do a jujutsu took second place and then one piece. It's important to remember that the Oricon charts are for print sales, not digital sales. This information is important for understanding the numbers.

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Best-selling comics of 2024

According to Oricon, Do a jujutsu Sold 7,610,995 copies, one piece Sales 5,250,210. Other series in the top five include: Frieren, Diary of an Apothecary and blue rock. Haikyu!! ranked 8th, an impressive record for a series that ended 2020 (but the movie probably had a positive impact on sales).

From 2008 to 2018, one piece Ranked top every year. In 2019 demon slayer It broke the “combo” and became the best-selling manga series of that year. Since then, one piece has never topped the charts again, but has always been in the top five. This all signals a change in the consumption patterns of comics readers and means more diversity and competition between series. Until 2018, one established series dominated sales, but now a variety of new series are topping the charts.

But the numbers were strange. In 2019 one piece Second place recorded sales of 10,134,232 copies. In 2020, it ranked third, selling over 7,000 copies.demon slayer It was sold for the first time with 82,345,447 copies sold. kingdom sold over 8,000 copies). In 2021 Do a jujutsu, demon slayer and Tokyo Avengers All sold over 20,000 copies each (attack on titan and one piece (each selling over 7,000 copies) in 2022, all top four series (inclusive) one piece) sold over 10,000 copies. last year,blue rock More than 10,000 units sold, followed by Do a jujutsu (over 8,000,000) and one piece (over 7,000,000).

What all of this suggests is that comics consumption peaked in 2020 to 2022, perhaps influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, and current numbers seem to be falling in a similar pattern to what we saw from 2013 to 2018. There may be several causes for this. There can be a loss of public interest, a proliferation of readers (there are more readers in the comics market, but what they read is different, so sales are not too concentrated on a particular series) and a proliferation of readers. Consumption format. Oricon comics charts are based on print sales, so Oricon cannot evaluate these numbers if readers purchase or read digitally.

What is an Oricon chart?

Oricon charts are Oricon's estimates of comic sales based on information collected from bookstores and other stores. Therefore, the Oricon chart does not necessarily reflect the entire reality of Japanese sales, but it is good data for understanding the market. For this reason the numbers may differ from those of the official publisher. But while publishers typically worry about the copies that are distributed (copies that the publisher sells to stores, so this is usually the transaction that makes the publisher money), Oricon wants to estimate actual sales to end consumers.

Source: Oricon via Josuke