Oricon released the fourth monthly ranking for the year 2022 which presents the overall sales data for April 2022. The rank shows franchise sales numbers as well as the top individual manga volume numbers.
Tatsuya Endo‘s Spy x Family takes the top spot in Oricon sales by series for the first time with a whopping 2,303, 434 copies sold. The sales number is mostly boosted by the release of the anime in Spring 2022.
The following list covers the Top 20 series in Oricon’s April 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Author | Copies Sold |
1 | Spy x Family | Tatsuya Endo | 2, 303,434 |
2 | Jujutsu Kaisen | Gege Akutami | 2,022,059 |
3 | One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | 1,512,148 |
4 | Tokyo Revengers | Ken Wakui | 1,146,363 |
5 | Detective Conan | Gosho Aoyama | 510,418 |
6 | Takopi’s Original Sin | Taizan5 | 444,003 |
7 | Golden Kamuy | Satoru Noda | 350,746 |
8 | My Dress-up Darling | Shinichi Fukuda | 257,178 |
9 | Dragon Ball Super | Akira Toriyama & Toyotaro | 241,816 |
10 | Aoashi | Yugo Kobayashi & Naohiko Ueno | 231,798 |
11 | Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun | Osamu Nishi | 187,642 |
12 | Komi-can’t communicate | Tomohito Oda | 184,086 |
13 | Black Clover | Yuki Tabata | 171,916 |
14 | Mystery to Iu Nakare | Yumi Tamura | 154,054 |
15 | Blue Lock | Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yusuke Nomura | 153,585 |
16 | My Hero Academia | Kohei Horikoshi | 150,707 |
17 | Haikyu!! | Haruichi Furudate | 149,853 |
18 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | Koyoharu Gotouge | 146,690 |
19 | Makai no Shuyaku was Wareware da! | Osamu Nishi, Koneshima & Atsushi Tsudanuma | 137,196 |
20 | Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie | Keigo Maki | 124,873 |
In fact, Spy x Family grabs the most spots on the Top 20 volume chart for Japan’s April 2022 sales. However, Jujutsu Kaisen tops the chart as its new volume 19 sold 1,485,960 copies.
The list covers the Top 20 volume-wise Oricon’s April 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Volume | Author | Copies Sold |
1 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 19 | Gege Akutami | 1,485,960 |
2 | One Piece | 102 | Eiichiro Oda | 1,325,680 |
3 | Spy x Family | 9 | Tatsuya Endo | 1,004,695 |
4 | Tokyo Revengers | 27 | Ken Wakui | 719,730 |
5 | Detective Conan | 101 | Gosho Aoyama | 374,392 |
6 | Takopi’s Original Sin | 2 | Taizan5 | 312,632 |
7 | Golden Kamuy | 29 | Satoru Noda | 208,798 |
8 | Spy x Family | 8 | Tatsuya Endo | 200,350 |
9 | Dragon Ball Super | 18 | Akira Toriyama & Toyotaro | 193,333 |
10 | Spy x Family | 4 | Tatsuya Endo | 170,293 |
11 | Spy x Family | 5 | Tatsuya Endo | 165,907 |
12 | Spy x Family | 6 | Tatsuya Endo | 162,071 |
13 | Spy x Family | 7 | Tatsuya Endo | 161,625 |
14 | Black Clover | 32 | Yuki Tabata | 147,010 |
15 | Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun | 2 | Osamu Nishi | 133,849 |
16 | Takopi’s Original Sin | 1 | Taizan5 | 131,371 |
17 | Spy x Family | 1 | Tatsuya Endo | 112,899 |
18 | Spy x Family | 2 | Tatsuya Endo | 110,530 |
19 | Spy x Family | 3 | Tatsuya Endo | 108,455 |
20 | Spy x Family | 1-3 box set | Tatsuya Endo | 105,158 |
In March, Jujutsu Kaisen topped franchise sales charts, breaking the sales record for the second time this year.
In February, Tokyo Revengers topped both franchise sales numbers and the top individual manga volume numbers, while in January Jujutsu Kaisen showed a similar feat.
Best selling manga in Japan for the previous month(s):
Source: Twitter
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