Oricon released the third monthly ranking for the year 2022 which presents the overall sales data for March 2022. The rank shows franchise sales numbers as well as the top individual manga volume numbers.
Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen reigns second time this year listing 860,218 copies sold, however, it shows quite a dip in sales compared to January. Followed by Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers which sold 848,131 copies.
The list covers the Top 20 series in Oricon’s March 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Author | Copies Sold | Publisher |
1 | Jujutsu Kaisen | Gege Akutami | 860,218 | Shueisha |
2 | Tokyo Revengers | Ken Wakui | 848,131 | Kodansha |
3 | Kaiju No. 8 | Naoya Matsumoto | 679,046 | Shueisha |
4 | My Dress-up Darling | Shinichi Fukuda | 619,132 | Square Enix |
5 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | Fuse & Taiki Kawakami | 560,462 | Kodansha |
6 | Mystery to Iu Nakare | Yumi Tamura | 502,202 | Shogakukan |
7 | Blue Lock | Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yusuke Nomura | 387,252 | Kodansha |
8 | Dr. Stone | Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi | 376,238 | Shueisha |
9 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | Koyoharu Gotouge | 371,989 | Shueisha |
10 | One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | 369,381 | Shueisha |
11 | Sousou no Frieren | Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe | 362,638 | Shueisha |
12 | My Hero Academia | Kohei Horikoshi | 344,630 | Shueisha |
13 | Spy x Family | Tatsuya Endo | 334,222 | Shueisha |
14 | Record of Ragnarok | Takumi Fukui, Shinya Umemura & Chika Aji | 317,085 | Tokuma Shoten |
15 | Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun | Aidairo | 290,931 | Square Enix |
16 | Kaguya-sama: Love is War | Aka Akasaka | 258,794 | Shueisha |
17 | Takopii no Genzai | Taizan 5 | 242,708 | Shueisha |
18 | Aoashi | Yuugo Kobayashi & Naohiko Ueno | 231,208 | Shogakukan |
19 | Kingdom | Yasuhira Hara | 225,773 | Shueisha |
20 | Yuru Camp | Afro | 222,547 | Houbunsha |
Moreover, in March Kaiju No. 8 ranked #1 in the per volume sale in Japan, unlike the previous charts.
The list covers the Top 20 volume-wise Oricon’s March 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Volume | Author | Copies Sold |
1 | Kaiju No. 8 | 6 | Naoya Matsumoto | 573,069 |
2 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | 2 | Fuse & Taiki Kawakami | 418,041 |
3 | Sousou no Frieren | 7 | Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe | 268,892 |
4 | Record of Ragnarok | 14 | Takumi Fukui, Shinya Umemura & Chika Aji | 242,221 |
5 | Takopii no Genzai | 1 | Taizan 5 | 240,294 |
6 | Dr. Stone | 25 | Riichiro Inagaki & Boichi | 215,074 |
7 | One Piece | 102 | Eiichiro Oda | 211,922 |
8 | My Dress-up Darling | 9 | Shinichi Fukuda | 208, 983 |
9 | Tokyo Revengers | 26 | Ken Wakui | 206,869 |
10 | Kaguya-sama: Love is War | 25 | Aka Akasaka | 199,936 |
11 | Yuru Camp | 13 | Afro | 176,157 |
12 | Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun | 17 | Aidairo | 170,428 |
13 | Blue Lock | 18 | Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yusuke Nomura | 155,976 |
14 | Grand Blue Dreaming | 18 | Kenji Inoue & Kimitake Yoshioka | 154,011 |
15 | Aoashi | 27 | Yuugo Kobayashi & Naohiko Ueno | 152,578 |
16 | Ace of Diamond | 30 | Yuji Terajima | 132,544 |
17 | Honey Lemon Soda | 19 | Muarata Mayu | 131,664 |
18 | Dandadan | 4 | Yukinobu Tatsu | 128,506 |
19 | Mashle | 10 | Hajime Koumoto | 127,835 |
20 | Kingdom | 64 | Yasuhira Hara | 120,169 |
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.
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.
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