It’s that time of the year, Oricon has unveiled its Top-Selling Lists for Manga and Light Novels for the first half of 2020. Here’s what categories that we’re looking at Top-Selling Manga and Light Novels by Series and by Volume. Last year, One Piece took the No.1 spot with a whopping 5,015,325; but One Piece was also running on the success of its 20th Anniversary Film, without further ado, let’s get down to the Lists.
Top-Selling Manga: By Series
*PLEASE NOTE* The Lists Provided surveyed the sales from November 18th, 2019 to May 17th, 2020.
- Koyoharu Gōtoge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba- 45,297,633
- Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece- 4,885,538
- Negi Haruba‘s The Quintessential Quintuplets- 4,240,192
- Yasuhisa Hara’s Kingdom- 3,512,571
- Kōhei Horikoshi’s Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia)- 3,339,656
Top-Selling Manga: By Volume
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 18: 3,035,555
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 19: 2,829,174
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 1: 2,267,744
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 12: 2,237,092
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 11: 2,234,515
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 14: 2,233,412
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 13: 2,223,961
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 7: 2,223,867
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 8: 2,218,826
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 9: 2,216,999
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 2: 2,211,701
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 10: 2,209,598
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 15: 2,194,060
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 3: 2,192,013
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 4: 2,175,936
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 5: 2,167,490
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 6: 2,166,372
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 7: 2,156,356
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 17: 2,113,520
- One Piece 95: 1,955,897
- One Piece 96: 1,688,363
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 20: 1,086,350
- Attack on Titan 30: 911,246
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Volume 20 with Special Bundled Postcard Set: 904,092
- Kingdom 56: 811,856
Top-Selling Light Novels: By Series
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Novelization- Original Story by Koyoharu Gōtoge, Novel by Aya Yajima 1,199,863
- Sword Art Online– Written by Reki Kawahara, Illustrated by Abec 377,493
- That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime! Written by Fuse, Illustrated by Mitz Vah 327,191
- Kusuriya no Hitorigoto Written by Hyūngantsu Illustrated by Kashiwa Miyako 317,749
- Overlord Written by Kugane Maruyama Illustrated by So-Bin 264,875
- RE: Zero Starting Life in Another World Written by Tappei Nagatsuki, Illustrated by: Shinichirou Otsuka 264,458
- My Teenage Romantic Comedy SNAFU Written by Wataru Watari, Illustrated by Ponkan8 256,704
- Konasuba God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World Written by Natsume Akatsuki, Illustrated by Kurone Mishima 223,657
- Seishun Buta Yarō Series (Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Senpai) Written by Hajime Kamoshida, Illustrated by Keeji Mizoguchi 173,391
- Classroom of the Elite Written by Syohgo Kinugasa, Illustrated by Shunsaku Tomose 150,689
Top-Selling Light Novels: By Volume
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Kataha no Chō- Original Story by Koyoharu Gōtoge, Novel by Aya Yajima 601,101
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Shiawase no Hana- Original Story by Koyoharu Gōtoge, Novel by Aya Yajima 598,762
- Overlord 14 Written by Kugane Maruyama Illustrated by So-Bin 207,298
- Sword Art Online 23 Unital Ring II Written by Reki Kawahara, Illustrated by Abec 172,604
- My Teenage Romantic Comedy SNAFU 14 Written by Wataru Watari, Illustrated by Ponkan8 170,974
- That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime! 16 Written by Fuse, Illustrated by Mitz Vah 121,268
- Classroom of the Elite 2- Nensei-Hei Written by Written by Syohgo Kinugasa, Illustrated by Shunsaku Tomose 108,521
- The Irregular at Magic High School Written by Tsutomu Satou, Illustrated by Kana Ishida 86,959
- Sword Art Online 24 Unital Ring III Written by Reki Kawahara, Illustrated by Abec 81,994
- Konasuba God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! 17 Written by Natsume Akatsuki, Illustrated by Kurone Mishima 79,137
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