Oricon released the fifth monthly ranking for the year 2022 which presents the overall sales data for May 2022. The ranking 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 once again with 1,780,906 copies sold. The sales number is mostly boosted by the ongoing anime, released in Spring 2022.
The following list covers the Top 20 series in Oricon’s May 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Author | Copies Sold |
1 | Spy x Family | Tatsuya Endo | 1,780,906 |
2 | My Hero Academia | Kohei Horikoshi | 770,373 |
3 | Tokyo Revengers | Ken Wakui | 430,858 |
4 | Jujutsu Kaisen | Gege Akutami | 424,166 |
5 | One Punch Man | ONE & Yusuke Murata | 359,149 |
6 | Golden Kamuy | Satoru Noda | 301,258 |
7 | Aoashi | Yuugo Kobayashi & Naohiko Nomura | 267,667 |
8 | Blue Lock | Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yusuke Nomura | 256,782 |
9 | One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | 216,529 |
10 | Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray | Pierre Sugiura, Taiyou Kuzumi, Yousuke Kabashima & Cygames | 215,325 |
11 | Natsume’s Book of Friends | Yuki Midorikawa | 211,021 |
12 | Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie | Keigo Maki | 193,673 |
13 | Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc | Nobuhiro Watsuki & Kaoru Kurosaki | 181,495 |
14 | A Couple of Cuckoos | Miki Yoshikawa | 165,619 |
15 | Detective Conan | Gosho Aoyama | 164,890 |
16 | Dandadan | Yukinobu Tatsu | 163,876 |
17 | The Quintessential Quintuplets | Negi Haruba | 149,535 |
18 | Space Brothers | Chuya Koyama | 148,472 |
19 | The Fable- The Second Contact | Katsuhisa Minami | 145,660 |
20 | In the Clear Moonlit Dusk | Mika Yamamori | 144,451 |
In fact, Spy x Family grabs the most spots in the individual volume-wise sales chart for Japan’s May 2022 sales. However, My Hero Academia tops the chart as its new volume 34 sold 607,459 copies.
The list covers the Top 20 volume-wise Oricon’s April 2022 sales:
Rank | Title | Volume | Author | Copies Sold |
1 | My Hero Academia | 34 | Kohei Horikoshi | 607,459 |
2 | One Punch Man | 25 | ONE & Yusuke Murata | 315,396 |
3 | Spy x Family | 9 | Tatsuya Endo | 274.816 |
4 | Spy x Family | 8 | Tatsuya Endo | 210,572 |
5 | Spy x Family | 4 | Tatsuya Endo | 195,385 |
6 | Spy x Family | 7 | Tatsuya Endo | 193,548 |
7 | Spy x Family | 5 | Tatsuya Endo | 193,530 |
8 | Spy x Family | 6 | Tatsuya Endo | 191,935 |
9 | Rurouni Kenshin: The Hokkaido Arc | 7 | Nobuhiro Watsuki & Kaoru Kurosaki | 173,288 |
10 | Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray | 7 | Pierre Sugiura, Taiyou Kuzumi, Yousuke Kabashima & Cygames | 172,709 |
11 | Natsume’s Book of Friends | 28 | Yuki Midorikawa | 172,134 |
12 | Spy x Family | 1 | Tatsuya Endo | 162,958 |
13 | Spy x Family | 2 | Tatsuya Endo | 162,007 |
14 | Spy x Family | 3 | Tatsuya Endo | 161,282 |
15 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 19 | Gege Akutami | 138,085 |
16 | Space Brothers | 41 | Chuya Koyama | 134,200 |
17 | Tokyo Revengers | 27 | Ken Wakui | 133,008 |
18 | The Fable- The Second Contact | 3 | Katsuhisa Minami | 125,816 |
19 | Blue Lock | 19 | Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yusuke Nomura | 124,830 |
20 | In the Clear Moonlit Dusk | 4 | Mika Yamamori | 123,728 |
Spy x Family topped the best-selling manga list in Japan for the first time in April. It also grabbed most spots in the volume wise chart as well.
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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