Oricon released the first monthly ranking of the year 2022 which presents the overall sales data for January 2022. The rank shows franchise sales numbers as well as the top individual manga volume numbers.
Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen reigns the lists with 3,953,770 copies sold after a boost from the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie release on Dec 24, 2021. Followed by Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers which sold 1,394,358 copies. It also gained quite the traction ever since the anime adaptation was released.
The list covers the Top 20 series in Oricon’s January 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Author | Copies Sold | Publisher |
1 | Jujutsu Kaisen | Gege Akutami | 3,953,770 | Shueisha |
2 | Tokyo Revengers | Ken Wakui | 1,394,358 | Kodansha |
3 | Mystery to lu Nakare | Yumi Tamura | 848,083 | Shogakukan |
4 | Kimestu no Yaiba | Koyoharu Gotouge | 692,212 | Shueisha |
5 | Dr. Stone | Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi | 367,111 | Shueisha |
6 | My Hero Academia | Kohei Horikoshi | 338,033 | Shueisha |
7 | Blue Lock | Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yushuke Nomura | 311,887 | Kodansha |
8 | My Dress-Up Darling | Shinichi Fukuda | 299,598 | Square Enix |
9 | SPY x FAMILY | Tatsuya Endo | 290,970 | Shueisha |
10 | ONE PIECE | Eiichiro Oda | 275,727 | Shueisha |
11 | Haikyu!! | Haruichi Furudate | 266,523 | Shueisha |
12 | Welcome To Demon School! Iruma-kun | Osamu Nishi | 258,321 | Akita Shoten |
13 | Attack On Titan | Hajime Isayama | 254,822 | Kodansha |
14 | Record of Ragnarok | Takumi Fukui,Shinya Umemura & Chika Aji | 252,573 | Tokuma Shoten |
15 | World Trigger | Daisuke Ashihara | 247,320 | Shueisha |
16 | Komi Can’t Communicate | Tomohito Oda | 244,497 | Shogakukan |
17 | Kaiju No. 8 | Naoya Matsumoto | 222,972 | Shueisha |
18 | Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | Gege Akutami | 218,490 | Shueisha |
19 | Black Clover | Yuki Tabata | 191,236 | Shueisha |
20 | Chainsaw Man | Tatsuki Fujimoto | 175,837 | Shueisha |
Jujutsu Kaisen also ranks #1 in the per volume sale covering almost half of the Top 20 spots for January 2022 Oricon rank list.
The list covers the Top 20 volume-wise Oricon’s January 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Volume | Author | Copies Sold |
1 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 18 | Gege Akutami | 1,013,180 |
2 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 17 | Gege Akutami | 297,026 |
3 | Tokyo Revengers | 25 | Ken Wakui | 229,820 |
4 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 0 | Gege Akutami | 218,490 |
5 | Dr. Stone | 24 | Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi | 204,992 |
6 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 16 | Gege Akutami | 176,679 |
7 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 9 | Gege Akutami | 155,109 |
8 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 10 | Gege Akutami | 149,857 |
9 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 11 | Gege Akutami | 148,149 |
10 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 8 | Gege Akutami | 147,858 |
11 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 15 | Gege Akutami | 146,953 |
12 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 12 | Gege Akutami | 146,504 |
13 | Black Clover | 31 | Yuki Tabata | 145,075 |
14 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 13 | Gege Akutami | 144,784 |
15 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 14 | Gege Akutami | 144,777 |
16 | Mystery to lu Nakare | 10 | Yumi Tamura | 135,002 |
17 | Welcome To Demon School! Iruma-kun | 25 | Osamu Nishi | 131,487 |
18 | Record of Ragnarok | 13 | Takumi Fukui,Shinya Umemura & Chika Aji | 129,609 |
19 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 1 | Gege Akutami | 127,971 |
20 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 2 | Gege Akutami | 125,497 |
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga made the most numbers in 2020, but Weekly Shonen Jump series Jujutsu Kaisen has surpassed Koyoharu Gotouge’s masterpiece by a few digits in the Oricon Manga sales figures for the year 2021.
Demon Slayer topped the volume-wise manga list but Jujutsu Kaisen took the most spots in the top 30 volumes for 2021.
Source: Twitter
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