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Japan's Yearly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for 2023 (First Half)

Jun 1, 9:03 AM
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Here are the manga and light novel sales rankings for the first half of the fiscal year of 2023 (November 21, 2022 to May 21, 2023).

Manga Sales by Series
*1. 8,046,032 Blue Lock
*2. 4,492,906 Chainsaw Man
*3. 4,199,966 Slam Dunk
*4. 3,757,215 Jujutsu Kaisen
*5. 3,550,097 One Piece

Manga Sales by Volume
*1. 1,758,255 One Piece Vol.105
*2. 1,553,984 Jujutsu Kaisen Vol.21
*3. 1,318,536 Jujutsu Kaisen Vol.22
*4. 1,177,254 Spy x Family Vol.11
*5. *,846,297 Tokyo卍Revengers Vol.31
*6. *,726,883 Boku no Hero Academia Vol.37
*7. *,698,001 Chainsaw Man Vol.13
*8. *,618,955 Kingdom Vol.67
*9. *,529,770 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken Vol.22
10. *,518,277 Blue Lock Vol.22

11. *,517,986 Kingdom Vol.68
12. *,482,942 Tokyo卍Revengers Vol.30
13. *,479,266 Chainsaw Man Vol.14
14. *,453,197 Kaijuu 8-gou Vol.9
15. *,448,680 The First Slam Dunk Re:Source
16. *,445,253 Blue Lock Vol.23
17. *,435,559 Mystery to Iu nakare Vol.12
18. *,397,185 Detective Conan Vol.103
19. *,360,601 One Piece Vol.104
20. *,350,781 Kusuriya no Hitorigoto Vol.11

21. *,349,636 Blue Lock Vol.12
22. *,347,432 Blue Lock Vol.13
23. *,346,093 Blue Lock Vol.21
24. *,343,271 Chainsaw Man Vol.12
25. *,342,045 Blue Lock Vol.14


Light Novel Sales by Series
*1. 389,315 Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken
*2. 369,925 Shousetsu Suzume no Tojimari
*3. 213,779 Shousetsu Blue Lock: Tatakai no Mae, Bokura wa.
*4. 204,770 Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Aalya-san
*5. 183,668 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen
*6. 163,677 Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
*7. 163,538 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka
*8. 162,904 Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken
*9. 130,694 Hoshi no Kirby
10. 121,552 Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi

Light Novel Sales by Volumes
*1. 247,093 Shousetsu Suzume no Tojimari (Kadokawa Bunko)
*2. 122,832 Shousetsu Suzume no Tojimari
*3. 114,408 Shousetsu Blue Lock: Tatakai no Mae, Bokura wa. Vol.1
*4. *99,371 Shousetsu Blue Lock: Tatakai no Mae, Bokura wa. Vol.2
*5. *96,943 Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen Vol.9
*6. *95,085 Kusuriya no Hitorigoto Vol.13
*7. *91,652 Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka Vol.18
*8. *73,240 Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Aalya-san Vol.5
*9. *69,697 Kishibe Rohan Tanpen Shousetsushuu
10. *68,700 Detective Conan: Kurogane no Submarine

Light Novels Separated by Specific Ranking

Source: Oricon

← Japan's Yearly Manga and Light Novel Rankings for 2022
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Oh, Blue Lock is the first of manga sales, great! No wonder it gets second season and Nagi movie also!

Also Blue Lock novels, Kaisen and Tokyo Revengers manga also sold pretty good.
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Yossha, we need a S2 of Otonarino Tenshi-sama then! On the manga side of things, I didn't know Blue Lock was blowing up to this pace! Nice, nice. 

Looks like Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Aalya-san is getting quite the traction too, that's good to see and I'm looking forward to the adaption soon. 
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Looks like there was a mistake. JJK Vol 21 didn't get second and third place in the volume rankings, with different numbers.
Looking at the source provided, Vol 22 was in third.
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Adaptation was fine and all but pretty sure the timing of it coinciding with then ongoing world cup has a hand too in those millions of sales of Blue lock.

Also what is Kaiju no.8 doing there on the list??
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Bidoof_PMD-EOS said:
Looks like there was a mistake. JJK Vol 21 didn't get second and third place in the volume rankings, with different numbers.
Looking at the source provided, Vol 22 was in third.
Thanks for bringing it up, it has been fixed now!
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Blue Lock hit it out of the park!! Amazing.
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Slam dunk is still selling millions of copies? wtf
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Holy shit 4 million difference between 1st place and 2nd. Did the Chainsaw man adaptation fail or its too early to count the boost the anime gave?
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Manga 2ne place in sales holy shit the anime failed lol
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@BilboBaggins365  Its too much of a difference hence why I'm surprised. Maybe just too early.
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@Ramkec If CSM ends up as number 2 in manga sales at the end of the year that is significant success as it hasn't been there yet. I don't understand why people thought it would be even as popular as it is. I don't think anyone expected Blue Lock to be doing this great but topic wise the content is way more mainstream than something like CSM. 
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Fujo buying power im telling ya.
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@BigMac7 Well it did get a very successful anime movie at the end of 2022, which is still running in Japan right now I think
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Pretty said that they made a Slam Dunk movie full of 3D CGIs instead of making TV series where the old one stopped.
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hype for more Blue Lock content
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I am very happy that the Otonari no Tenshi-sama ni Itsunomanika Dame Ningen ni Sareteita Ken sell so good. It is really such a huge geb and one of the best romance light novels out there without disgusting drama. I hope it will sell more and more and eventually have a season 2 for the anime too 
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If Blue Lock manga is as good as the anime adaptation, then it has to be a result of some kind of tax evasion scam or money laundering. It was the most tedious and mind numbing boring sports series I've ever seen.
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Slam dunk is still selling millions of copies? wtf
Pretty sure it's the movie sales boost.
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Whenever you think you've gotten used to Japanese rankings being laughably bad, the land of Zipang still manages to exceed your expectations.
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To bad only 10 places for LNs. I wanted to check how much the latest NGNL volume sold.
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Ototen on top, you love to see it.

Can't wait for the Roshidere anime to start so the LN can get a huge boost...
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Blue Lock at #1 in manga and Otonari no Tenshi-sama at #1 in LN? lmao, what a joke.
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@Nanaca lol you think this lists is laughably bad, maybe your an elitists. Which are like seinen fans too shounen
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Congrats to Blue Lock, it’s always nice to see different and new titles at the top
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@Nanaca lol you think this lists is laughably bad, maybe your an elitists. Which are like seinen fans too shounen


Of course your average MAL user is a pretentious idiot that lacks business sense and would probably run the anime industry into bankruptcy, probably has a writing degree(the vegans of degrees annoying and got to mention it every other second) and generally are the toxic side of nerd hobbies.
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Kinda annoyed that Blue Lock also showed up in the light novel rankings.
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Good to see blue lock at the top with quite a big margin. 
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Dang, Blue Lock is going the distance, although in some ways, Slam Dunk being present is more impressive.
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MadanielFL said:
Ototen on top, you love to see it.

Can't wait for the Roshidere anime to start so the LN can get a huge boost...
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Yossha, we need a S2 of Otonarino Tenshi-sama then! On the manga side of things, I didn't know Blue Lock was blowing up to this pace! Nice, nice. 

Looks like Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Aalya-san is getting quite the traction too, that's good to see and I'm looking forward to the adaption soon. 
Me too. Unfortunately, some assholes are already trying to make it political... well, for obvious reasons.
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RobertBobert said:
MadanielFL said:
Ototen on top, you love to see it.

Can't wait for the Roshidere anime to start so the LN can get a huge boost...
_MushiRock11_ said:
Yossha, we need a S2 of Otonarino Tenshi-sama then! On the manga side of things, I didn't know Blue Lock was blowing up to this pace! Nice, nice. 

Looks like Tokidoki Bosotto Russia-go de Dereru Tonari no Aalya-san is getting quite the traction too, that's good to see and I'm looking forward to the adaption soon. 
Me too. Unfortunately, some assholes are already trying to make it political... well, for obvious reasons.
I've only seen someone say that they won't be watching it because they don't like tsunderes...
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MadanielFL said:
RobertBobert said:
Me too. Unfortunately, some assholes are already trying to make it political... well, for obvious reasons.
I've only seen someone say that they won't be watching it because they don't like tsunderes...
I read about an adaptation of this on Frog-kun's blog, one of ANN's most liberal and sensible writers (if not the only one) and one of the first comments there was a dude who said he was going to boycott it because of the Russians.
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RobertBobert said:
MadanielFL said:
I've only seen someone say that they won't be watching it because they don't like tsunderes...
I read about an adaptation of this on Frog-kun's blog, one of ANN's most liberal and sensible writers (if not the only one) and one of the first comments there was a dude who said he was going to boycott it because of the Russians.
I don't think that guy sounded serious at all...
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MadanielFL said:
RobertBobert said:
I read about an adaptation of this on Frog-kun's blog, one of ANN's most liberal and sensible writers (if not the only one) and one of the first comments there was a dude who said he was going to boycott it because of the Russians.
I don't think that guy sounded serious at all...
Someone tried to argue with him and he seriously tried to defend his point of view. And he wasn't the only one who said that to me.
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RobertBobert said:
MadanielFL said:
I don't think that guy sounded serious at all...
Someone tried to argue with him and he seriously tried to defend his point of view. And he wasn't the only one who said that to me.
I don't see the reply where he tried to defend himself...
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MadanielFL said:
RobertBobert said:
Someone tried to argue with him and he seriously tried to defend his point of view. And he wasn't the only one who said that to me.
I don't see the reply where he tried to defend himself...
Where can't you see?
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RobertBobert said:
MadanielFL said:
I've only seen someone say that they won't be watching it because they don't like tsunderes...
I read about an adaptation of this on Frog-kun's blog, one of ANN's most liberal and sensible writers (if not the only one) and one of the first comments there was a dude who said he was going to boycott it because of the Russians.





It's just amerizoomers being amerizoomers. Let them do their silly "cancelling" of stuff they would not even buy anyway. With enough luck, they gonna do enough buzz in their twitter bubbles who will atract some neutral normies attention, and thus make it MORE POPULAR than it would be. No such thing as bad publicity.



Also, let's be real: LOL, LMAO, XD, ahaha, even.

It's like if I would like to go boycotting MCU cuz the heroes are americans, and, you known, no WMDs on Iraq, funding to South America brutal military dictatorships in the 1960's-1980's (my poor country included), etc, etc, etc.

Hell, at least the MCU HAS some politics and looooots of cultural americanisms shoved in, this stuff is just a romantic slice of life with a teen girl russian-who-lives-in-japan (or uzbek-russian, if people spoiled me correctly) who rumbles in her native language from time to time. VERY Political, such Vatnik, author is totally a Dugin-pilled guy with Zs on his own house /s.


If this was that Isekai Putin (Ride on King), I would comprehend the angryness, but THIS?!
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RobertBobert said:
I read about an adaptation of this on Frog-kun's blog, one of ANN's most liberal and sensible writers (if not the only one) and one of the first comments there was a dude who said he was going to boycott it because of the Russians.





It's just  amerizoomers being amerizoomers. Let them do their silly "cancelling" of stuff they would not even buy anyway. With enough luck, they gonna do enough buzz in their twitter bubbles who will atract some neutral normies attention, and thus make it MORE POPULAR than it would be. No such thing as bad publicity.



Also, let's be real: LOL, LMAO, XD, ahaha, even.

It's like if I would like to go boycotting MCU cuz the heroes are americans, and, you known, no WMDs on Iraq, funding to South America brutal military dictatorships in the 1960's-1980's (my poor country included), etc, etc, etc.

Hell, at least the MCU HAS some politics and looooots of cultural americanisms shoved in, this stuff is just a romantic slice of life with a teen girl russian-who-lives-in-japan (or uzbek-russian, if people spoiled me correctly) who rumbles in her native language from time to time. VERY Political, such Vatnik, author is totally a Dugin-pilled guy with Zs on his own house /s.


If this was that Isekai Putin (Ride on King), I would comprehend the angryness, but THIS?!
I stopped paying attention to this after a lot of people who made fun of the boycott of Hogwarts Legacy, non-ironically called for a boycott of Atomic Heart, lol.
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I don't see the reply where he tried to defend himself...
Where can't you see?
https://frogkun.com/2022/11/24/this-romcom-light-novel-will-definitely-get-an-anime-soon/
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MadanielFL said:
RobertBobert said:
Where can't you see?
https://frogkun.com/2022/11/24/this-romcom-light-novel-will-definitely-get-an-anime-soon/
Hmm, either he deleted the branch, or it really was somewhere else. But I wonder how personal you're taking this if you're willing to literally search the thread or try to justify the dude with speculation about his intentions.
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Looks like Kusuriya no Hitorigoto is finally going down in sales of older volumes. But... Since it's finally getting an anime, sales of older volumes are going to explode again soon lmao.
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RobertBobert said:
Hmm, either he deleted the branch, or it really was somewhere else. But I wonder how personal you're taking this if you're willing to literally search the thread or try to justify the dude with speculation about his intentions.
It's not that serious, I've been familiar with Frog-kun's blog for a while now, so I just wanted to confirm if what you said is true or not.
Because I've seen more people talking about how this show will cause controversy, than the controversy itself. 

Fabris said:
It's just  amerizoomers being amerizoomers. Let them do their silly "cancelling" of stuff they would not even buy anyway. With enough luck, they gonna do enough buzz in their twitter bubbles who will atract some neutral normies attention, and thus make it MORE POPULAR than it would be. No such thing as bad publicity.


Also, let's be real: LOL, LMAO, XD, ahaha, even.

It's like if I would like to go boycotting MCU cuz the heroes are americans, and, you known, no WMDs on Iraq, funding to South America brutal military dictatorships in the 1960's-1980's (my poor country included), etc, etc, etc.

Hell, at least the MCU HAS some politics and looooots of cultural americanisms shoved in, this stuff is just a romantic slice of life with a teen girl russian-who-lives-in-japan (or uzbek-russian, if people spoiled me correctly) who rumbles in her native language from time to time. VERY Political, such Vatnik, author is totally a Dugin-pilled guy with Zs on his own house /s.


If this was that Isekai Putin (Ride on King), I would comprehend the angryness, but THIS?!
Trust me, "amerizoomers" don't care about this show at all.
I can say this from personal experience, as nothing really changed for the Russian kids here at my school, the continued to get along with American kids just as they had before.

It's mostly the old mainstream "liberals" that care about this stuff, not the new generation, specially those who watch anime. 

I doubt there will be a significant number of "amerizoomers" boycotting this show, there might a few here and there, but certainly the vast majority will not care at all. 
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Hmm, either he deleted the branch, or it really was somewhere else. But I wonder how personal you're taking this if you're willing to literally search the thread or try to justify the dude with speculation about his intentions.
It's not that serious, I've been familiar with Frog-kun's blog for a while now, so I just wanted to confirm if what you said is true or not.
Because I've seen more people talking about how this show will cause controversy, than the controversy itself. 

Fabris said:
It's just  amerizoomers being amerizoomers. Let them do their silly "cancelling" of stuff they would not even buy anyway. With enough luck, they gonna do enough buzz in their twitter bubbles who will atract some neutral normies attention, and thus make it MORE POPULAR than it would be. No such thing as bad publicity.


Also, let's be real: LOL, LMAO, XD, ahaha, even.

It's like if I would like to go boycotting MCU cuz the heroes are americans, and, you known, no WMDs on Iraq, funding to South America brutal military dictatorships in the 1960's-1980's (my poor country included), etc, etc, etc.

Hell, at least the MCU HAS some politics and looooots of cultural americanisms shoved in, this stuff is just a romantic slice of life with a teen girl russian-who-lives-in-japan (or uzbek-russian, if people spoiled me correctly) who rumbles in her native language from time to time. VERY Political, such Vatnik, author is totally a Dugin-pilled guy with Zs on his own house /s.


If this was that Isekai Putin (Ride on King), I would comprehend the angryness, but THIS?!
Trust me, "amerizoomers" don't care about this show at all.
I can say this from personal experience, as nothing really changed for the Russian kids here at my school, the continued to get along with American kids just as they had before.

It's mostly the old mainstream "liberals" that care about this stuff, not the new generation, specially those who watch anime. 

I doubt there will be a significant number of "amerizoomers" boycotting this show, there might a few here and there, but certainly the vast majority will not care at all. 
The fact that you literally mean that I can lie to you already says that you take these things seriously, doesn't it?
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RobertBobert said:
MadanielFL said:
It's not that serious, I've been familiar with Frog-kun's blog for a while now, so I just wanted to confirm if what you said is true or not.
Because I've seen more people talking about how this show will cause controversy, than the controversy itself. 

Trust me, "amerizoomers" don't care about this show at all.
I can say this from personal experience, as nothing really changed for the Russian kids here at my school, the continued to get along with American kids just as they had before.

It's mostly the old mainstream "liberals" that care about this stuff, not the new generation, specially those who watch anime. 

I doubt there will be a significant number of "amerizoomers" boycotting this show, there might a few here and there, but certainly the vast majority will not care at all. 
The fact that you literally mean that I can lie to you already says that you take these things seriously, doesn't it?
So if I check Frog-kun's blog, means that I am taking it seriously? 
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RobertBobert said:
The fact that you literally mean that I can lie to you already says that you take these things seriously, doesn't it?
So if I check Frog-kun's blog, means that I am taking it seriously? 
You didn't answer my question. You didn't just "check the blog", you literally accused me of lying and took the time to check it out, only to catch me doing it.
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So if I check Frog-kun's blog, means that I am taking it seriously? 
You didn't answer my question. You didn't just "check the blog", you literally accused me of lying and took the time to check it out, only to catch me doing it.
I wasn't accusing you of anything.

I was just checking her blog because I read that often. 
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Blue Lock is peak, glad to see it on top doing really well. Seeing it at the top also makes me happy because it makes the pretentious MAL elitists mad 🙏 "I cannot believe such edgy fujobait drivel is at the top instead of my favorite underrated obscure manga that barely anyone knows about. *Blah blah more meaningless buzzwords and complaining about the current state of the anime industry and people's inferior garbage taste* 🤓☝"
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