Oricon has finally released their list of best selling manga in Japan for the year of 2022. Jujutsu Kaisen tops the list with over 12.8 million copies sold overall, beating Tokyo Revengers by a small margin. Though the manga managed to retain its top spot, the numbers reveal that it’s sales fell by more than half compared to sales in best selling manga list of 2021.
Spy x Family and One Piece moved up in the top 10 best selling manga of 2022 list, while Demon Slayer, who came in at second position last year, Attack on Titan and Haikyuu! slipped out of it. Chainsaw Man too dropped down one place and came in at number 8 this year. Blue Lock, Do Not Say Mystery and Kaiju No. 8 were the new additions in the top ten.
The ranking follows the same trend as the half yearly sales ranking which was released in June 2022. Check out the list of best selling manga in Japan for the year 2022 below!
Rank | Series | Author | Estimated Sales |
1 | Jujutsu Kaisen | Gege Akutami | 12,282,260 |
2 | Tokyo Revengers | Ken Wakui | 11,048,067 |
3 | Spy x Family | Tatsuya Endo | 10,600,571 |
4 | One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | 10,364,102 |
5 | My Hero Academia | Kohei Horikoshi | 5,353,782 |
6 | Kingdom | Yasuhisa Hara | 3,832,688 |
7 | Blue Lock | Muneyuki Kaneshiro, Yusuke Nomura | 3,548,238 |
8 | Chainsaw Man | Tatsuki Fujimoto | 3,438,930 |
9 | Do Not Say Mystery | Yumi Tamura | 3,140,861 |
10 | Kaiju No. 8 | Naoya Matsumoto | 3,139,803 |
11 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba | Koyoharu Gotouge | 2,833,433* |
12 | Golden Kamuy | Satoru Noda | 2,719,681* |
13 | Aoashi | Yugo Kobayashi | 2,682,215 |
14 | My Dress-Up Darling | Shinichi Fukuda | 2,331,761 |
15 | That Time I Got Reincarnated As Slime | Taiki Kawakami | 2,257,909* |
16 | Haikyuu! | Haruichi Furudate | 2,227,863 |
17 | Record Of Ragnarok | Shinya Umemura, Takumi Fukui, Ajichika | 1,870,782* |
18 | World Trigger | Daisuke Ashihara | 1,823,349* |
19 | One Punch Man | ONE, Yusuke Murata | 1,769,262* |
20 | Dr. STONE | Riichiro Inagaki, Boichi | 1,753,154* |
Oricon also released volume wise sales list for the best selling manga of 2022. Jujutsu Kaisen once again the topped the list. One Piece meanwhile occupied 4 slots in the top ten. Spy x Family volumes occupies 7 of the top 20 spots.
Check out the list below!
Rank | Series & Volume | Author | Estimated Sales |
1 | Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 18 | Gege Akutami | 2,110,599 |
2. | One Piece Vol. 101 | Eiichiro Oda | 2,007,590 |
3. | One Piece Vol. 103 | Eiichiro Oda | 1,976,427 |
4. | One Piece Vol. 102 | Eiichiro Oda | 1,946,333 |
5. | Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 19 | Gege Akutami | 1,839,622 |
6. | Spy x Family Vol. 9 | Tatsuya Endo | 1,798,542 |
7. | One Piece Vol. 104 | Eiichiro Oda | 1,609,752 |
8. | Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 20 | Gege Akutami | 1,563,314 |
9. | Spy x Family Vol. 10 | Tatsuya Endo | 1,367,092 |
10. | Spy x Family Vol. 8 | Tatsuya Endo | 1,230,355 |
11. | Tokyo Revengers Vol. 25 | Ken Wakui | 1,204,451 |
12. | Tokyo Revengers Vol. 26 | Ken Wakui | 1,102,081 |
13. | Tokyo Revengers Vol. 27 | Ken Wakui | 1,024,112 |
14. | Tokyo Revengers Vol. 28 | Ken Wakui | 932,644 |
15. | Spy x Family Vol. 7 | Tatsuya Endo | 921,429 |
16. | Spy x Family Vol. 4 | Tatsuya Endo | 918,547 |
17. | Spy x Family Vol. 5 | Tatsuya Endo | 910,915 |
18. | Spy x Family Vol. 6 | Tatsuya Endo | 904,190 |
19. | My Hero Academia Vol. 33 | Kohei Horikoshi | 868,511 |
20. | Kaiju No. 8 | Naoya Matsumoto | 834,159 |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 23 had taken the top spot in the volume-wise manga sales list of 2021. You can keep a track of manga sales rankings in both the United States and Japan by checking out (and bookmarking) the links below!
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