Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Tops Half Year Sales In Japan

June 1, 2022

Oricon released the half-yearly ranking for the year 2022, which presents both the franchise sales numbers as well as the top individual manga volume numbers.

Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen manga grabs the top spot in Oricon sales by series with a whopping 9,382,099 copies sold. The sales number is mostly boosted by the release of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime in October 2020 followed by the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film released in December 2021.

The following list covers the Top 10 series in Oricon’s Half-Yearly sales:

Rank	Title	Author	Copies Sold
1	Jujutsu Kaisen	Gege Akutami	9,382,099
2	Tokyo Revengers	Ken Wakui	7,200,532
3	Spy x Family	Tatsuya Endo	4,835,705
4	One Piece	Eiichiro Oda	4,155,790
5	My Hero Academia	Kohei Horikoshi	2,894,149
6	Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba	Koyoharu Gotouge	2,555,433
7	Do Not Say Mystery	Yumi Tamura	2,492,813
8	Kaiju No. 8	Naoya Matsumoto	1,858,391
9	My Dress-up Darling	Shinichi Fukuda	1,723,644
10	Blue Lock	Muneyuki Kaneshiro & Yuusuke Nomura	1,558,323

Spy x Family grabs the most spots on Oricon’s Top 25 Half Year Individual Volume Sales Ranking. However, Jujutsu Kaisen tops the chart with its 18th volume, selling 2,011,232 copies.

The list covers the Top 25 volume-wise Oricon’s Half Year sales:

Rank	Title	Volume	Author	Copies Sold
1	Jujutsu Kaisen	18	Gege Akutami	2,011,232
2	One Piece	101	Eiichiro Oda	1,793,360
3	Jujutsu Kaisen	19	Gege Akutami	1,608,811
4	One Piece	102	Eiichiro Oda	1,605,641
5	Spy x Family	9	Tatsuya Endo	1,232,036
6	Tokyo Revengers	25	Ken Wakui	1,126,893
7	Tokyo Revengers	26	Ken Wakui	997,857
8	Tokyo Revengers	27	Ken Wakui	835,721
9	My Hero Academia	33	Kohei Horikoshi	790,901
10	Kaiju No. 8	5	Naoya Matsumoto	784,760
11	Spy x Family	8	Tatsuya Endo	704,735
12	Kingdom	4	Yasuhisa Hara	653,813
13	Kaiju No. 8	6	Naoya Matsumoto	653,020
14	Jujutsu Kaisen	17	Gege Akutami	643,507
15	My Hero Academia	34	Kohei Horikoshi	579,579
16	Do Not Say Mystery	10	Yumi Tamura	545,481
17	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	19	Fuse	523,447
18	World Trigger	24	Daisuke Ashihara	485,488
19	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime	20	Fuse	481,037
20	Jujutsu Kaisen	0	Gege Akutami	463,806
21	Spy x Family	7	Tatsuya Endo	438,439
22	Spy x Family	4	Tatsuya Endo	434,969
23	Detective Conan	101	Gosho Aoyama	426,010
24	Spy x Family	5	Tatsuya Endo	425,244
25	Spy x Family	6	Tatsuya Endo	421,439

Moreover, Spy x Family also topped in Oricon sales by series for the first time in franchise sales on April 2022.

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.