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Jujutsu Kaisen (Copies in Circulation: 36 million)
Original Run: Mar. 5th, 2018 - Present (Ongoing)

*Volume 1 released on July 4th, 2018*
600,000 [3] - Dec. 2018
1.1 million [3] - Feb. 1st, 2019
2.0 million [5] - June 30th, 2019
2.5 million [7] - Nov. 26th, 2019
4.5 million [10] - May 20th, 2020
6.8 million [12] - Sept. 4th, 2020
*Anime premiered on Oct. 3rd, 2020*
10.0 million [13] - Oct. 29th, 2020
12.0 million [13] - Nov. 27th, 2020
15.0 million [14] - Dec. 15th, 2020
20.0 million [15] - Jan. 13th, 2021
25.0 million [15] - Jan. 26th, 2021
30.0 million [15[ - Feb. 8th, 2021
36.0 million [16] - Mar. 1st, 2021


Here's the update with yesterday's Jujutsu Kaisen announcement. Also updated in the original post.

And I'll add another series or two to the thread this week. Probably Spy x Family and Chainsaw Man.

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Demon Slayer 19 also had a 1.5m first print in February 2020.
It had 40m units in circulation back then.
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Aligning the launch of vol. 19 of Demon Slayer and vol. 15 of JJK, it seems the two are close.
Jujutsu seemingly never recovered from the heavy stock issues it suffered from in late-december/early-january. Shueisha is probably printing as many units as it can.


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Rouk' wrote:
Demon Slayer 19 also had a 1.5m first print in February 2020.
It had 40m units in circulation back then.

See this graph (I don't know how to embed an image, sorry)

Aligning the launch of vol. 19 of Demon Slayer and vol. 15 of JJK, it seems the two are close.
Jujutsu seemingly never recovered from the heavy stock issues it suffered from in late-december/early-january. Shueisha is probably printing as many units as it can.


Thank you for the graph Rouk'


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:thumbsup: For images, at least most formats, just use [img]LINK[/img].

And yes, I'd say Shueisha is still struggling to meet the demand of the overall market. Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer aside, the majority of their titles are doing incredibly well. I think DS has begun to slow down a bit (what do you expect selling over 5 million per volume), so perhaps they'll be able to allocate some of its printing efforts there it to other titles here soon.

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I'll add some more series to the original post in the coming week(s). But I wanted to share, and many of you probably know already, that My Hero Academia now has 50 million copies in circulation worldwide (30 million in Japan). So ~20 million overseas for MHA. That's really, really huge. Attack on Titan hasn't been updated in over a year, but last update had it at 10 million overseas. I'm sure it's added at least a couple million since, but it surely hasn't doubled.

Therefore, MHA is the best selling series outside of Japan since the One Piece/Naruto/Bleach trio. Very impressive.

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“Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
"Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."


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Corpse wrote:
I'll add some more series to the original post in the coming week(s). But I wanted to share, and many of you probably know already, that My Hero Academia now has 50 million copies in circulation worldwide (30 million in Japan). So ~20 million overseas for MHA. That's really, really huge. Attack on Titan hasn't been updated in over a year, but last update had it at 10 million overseas. I'm sure it's added at least a couple million since, but it surely hasn't doubled.

Therefore, MHA is the best selling series outside of Japan since the One Piece/Naruto/Bleach trio. Very impressive.

Fairy Tail is more recent than the Big 3 and has 30m outside Japan (including around 10m in France).

Another question mark is Death Note, since afaik we never got its worldwide circulation, only 30 million for Japan.

One-Punch man is only at 9m for the rest of the world

Tokyo Ghoul + Re is 47m worldwide. We don't know the exact split, but at least 30m is from Japan (and most likely closer to 40m).

Other big question marks are Seven Deadly Sins and Dragon Ball Super, but neither of them should be above 10m (or at least, not anywhere close to 20m)


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Ah, Fairy Tail! Huge total in France, that's for sure. Is it fourth best all time there, after the big 3?

You'd think Death Note would *probably* have an impressive figure overseas. But I also feel like its popularity may have been more from the anime given its shorter length. It was able to conclude early, meaning fans may have been less likely to go out and buy the manga in order to know what happens next. Its low volume count probably limits it a good bit as well.

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“Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
"Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."


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In France, Dragon Ball is first with ~35m
Then One Piece and Naruto with 20m+
And yes, Fairy Tail is most likely 4th


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JJK 40M confirmed


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Dr Stone has reached 10M in circulation.

About the Big 3 in France... Naruto sold more than 1,2M of copies in 2020 and still really strong so.


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Several updated series this past week. All updated below, as well as in the original post.

Black Clover (Copies in Circulation: 12 million)
Original Run: Feb. 16th, 2015 - Present (Ongoing)
Spoiler: show
*Volume 1 released on June 4th, 2015*
1.6 million [7] - August 2016
2.0 million [9] - Dec. 2nd, 2016
3.0 million [12] - August 2017
*Anime premiered on Oct. 3rd, 2017*
4.4 million [13] - Oct. 17th, 2017
4.8 million [14] - Dec. 4th, 2017
5.5 million [15] - Mar. 2nd, 2018
5.8 million [16] - May 2nd, 2018
6.5 million [17] - Aug. 3rd, 2018
6.8 million [18] - Nov. 2nd, 2018
7.0 million [19] - Jan. 4th, 2019
8.0 million [20] - Apr. 4th, 2019
9.0 million [21] - July 4th, 2019
10.0 million [23] - Jan. 4th, 2020
11.0 million [26] - Oct. 29th, 2020
12.0 million [28] - Mar. 27th, 2021


Dr. Stone (Copies in Circulation: 10 million)
Original Run: Mar. 6th, 2017 - Present (Ongoing)
Spoiler: show
*Volume 1 released on July 7th, 2017*
2.0 million [10] - July 2nd, 2019
*Anime premiered on July 5th, 2019*
3.0 million [13] - Feb. 4th, 2020
5.0 million [16] - July 3rd, 2020
7.5 million [17] - Sept. 4th, 2020
8.0 million [18] - Dec. 3rd, 2020
8.4 million [19] - Jan. 3rd, 2021
10.0 million [20] - Mar. 30th, 2021


Jujutsu Kaisen (Copies in Circulation: 40 million)
Original Run: Mar. 5th, 2018 - Present (Ongoing)
Spoiler: show
*Volume 1 released on July 4th, 2018*
600,000 [3] - Dec. 2018
1.1 million [3] - Feb. 1st, 2019
2.0 million [5] - June 30th, 2019
2.5 million [7] - Nov. 26th, 2019
4.5 million [10] - May 20th, 2020
6.8 million [12] - Sept. 4th, 2020
*Anime premiered on Oct. 3rd, 2020*
10.0 million [13] - Oct. 29th, 2020
12.0 million [13] - Nov. 27th, 2020
15.0 million [14] - Dec. 15th, 2020
20.0 million [15] - Jan. 13th, 2021
25.0 million [15] - Jan. 26th, 2021
30.0 million [15] - Feb. 8th, 2021
36.0 million [16] - Mar. 1st, 2021
40.0 million [16] - Mar. 31st, 2021


And just a reminder that for these updates, the dates at which milestones are reached specifically, if a series has a new volume coming out the week of or after the announcement, I include that volume in its total of released volumes since that volume's first-print is included. And for Jujutsu Kaisen, I'm also including volume 0 in its count since its announcement image shows it.

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“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
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The Japan/RotW split for MHA is 37 million / 13 million.


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Two sports series entries in this update! Both have also been added to the original post.

Kuroko's Basketball (Copies in Circulation: 31 Million)
Original Run: Dec. 8th, 2008 - Sept. 1st, 2014 (Finished)

*Volume 1 released on Dec. 8th, 2008*
1.0 million [5] - Jan. 4th, 2010
1.3 million [6] - May 10th, 2010
1.65 million [7] - June 4th, 2010
1.75 million [7] - July 2010
2.0 million [8] - Aug. 4th, 2010
2.65 million [9] - Oct. 4th, 2010
3.0 million [10] - Dec. 3rd, 2010
3.5 million [11] - March 2011
5.0 million [14] - Oct. 3rd, 2011
5.4 million [15] - Dec. 12th, 2011
*Anime premiered on Apr. 7th, 2012*
7.5 million [17] - May 2012
9.5 million [18] - July 11th, 2012
13.0 million [19] - Nov. 2nd, 2012
14.0 million [20] - January 2013
17.0 million [21] - March 2013
20.0 million [22] - May 2nd, 2013
23.0 million [24] - Oct. 4th, 2013
25.0 million [25] - January 2014
26.0 million [26] - Mar. 4th, 2014
27.0 million [27] - June 2nd, 2014
*Final chapter released on Sept. 1st, 2014*
28.0 million [28] - Sept. 1st, 2014
*Final volume released on Dec. 4th, 2014*
30.0 million [30] - Apr. 23rd, 2015
31.0 million [30] - Nov. 5th, 2015




Haikyu!! (Copies in Circulation: 50 Million)
Original Run: Feb. 20th, 2012 - July 20th, 2020 (Finished)

*Volume 1 released on June 4th, 2012*
1.0 million [4] - Jan. 4th, 2013
1.5 million [5] - Mar. 4th, 2013
2.0 million [6] - May 2nd, 2013
2.5 million [7] - Aug. 2nd, 2013
3.0 million [8] - Oct. 4th, 2013
4.0 million [9] - Jan. 4th, 2014
*Anime premiered on Apr. 6th, 2014*
5.5 million [10] - Apr. 16th, 2014
7.0 million [11] - June 5th, 2014
9.0 million [12] - August 2014
10.0 million [13] - Oct. 3rd, 2014
12.0 million [14] - January 2015
14.0 million [16] - Apr. 24th, 2015
16.0 million [18] - Oct. 3rd, 2015
18.0 million [19] - Dec. 8th, 2015
19.0 million [21] - June 27th, 2016
20.0 million [22] - July 4th, 2016
22.0 million [24] - January 2017
25.0 million [27] - Aug. 4th, 2017
28.0 million [30] - Feb. 2nd, 2018
30.0 million [32] - July 4th, 2018
33.0 million [35] - Dec. 4th, 2018
34.0 million [37] - Apr. 4th, 2019
35.0 million [40] - Dec. 22nd, 2019
38.0 million [43] - May 10th, 2020
*Final chapter released on July 20th, 2020*
40.0 million [44] - Aug. 4th, 2020
*Final volume released on Nov. 4th, 2020*
50.0 million [45] - Nov. 4th, 2020

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“Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
"Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."


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Rouk' wrote:
The Japan/RotW split for MHA is 37 million / 13 million.


Forgot to thank you for sharing this. I edited the original post. :thumbsup:

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“Gods are great ... but the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return.”
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
“You have to pretend you get an endgame. You have to carry on like you will; otherwise, you can't carry on at all.”
"Paper is dead without words / Ink idle without a poem / All the world dead without stories."


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Hi,

JJK just reached 45M in circulation so I guess it can pass the 50M bar during May.


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Would love to have some detailed Dragon Ball, One Piece, Conan, Naruto and Golgo 13 numbers eventually, though I guess all of them starting in the pre-Oricon era will make it harder...


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https://twitter.com/Josu_ke/status/1389 ... 12070?s=20


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I wonder if 150 million copies in circulation of Kimetsu, which Shueisha announced in February, included 4 million copies from Viz Media. It is funny that Shueisha rarely specifies circulation numbers of their series in details. Normally, websites who announce domestic and international numbers are Oricon, Natalie Comic, or MantanWeb.
https://twitter.com/WSJ_manga/status/13 ... 58210?s=20


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I've read a week ago that TR has 35M of copies in circulation :
Not too bad. ^^'


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Here a graphic comparison between TR, JjK and DS : Thanks to Josuke !

It's about sales before, during and 6 months after their anime.


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AOT 10M WW was only known with 86M circulation announcement back in Dec 2018. Since then it sold about 4.7M~5M in physical before the 100M announcement. Could WW sales be much higher?

120M circulation announcement is near,hopefully they clear it up. I hate it when companies announce WW once and not mention it afterwards. like with Fullmetal.


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Bonus stuff:


Fastest to 100 Million circulation
1st place* Demon Slayer:Kimetsu no Yaiba 4 years 7 months
2nd place* One Piece 7 years 7 months
3rd place* Detective Conan (Case Closed) 9 years 1 months
4th place* Dragon Ball 10 years
5th place* Shingeki No Kyojin (WW circulation included) 10 Years 3 monthss
6th place* Naruto 10 years 6 months
7th place* Slam Dunk (After completion) 13 years 10 months
8th place* Bleach (After completion) 16 years 6 months
9th place* Kochikame 20 years
10th place* Crayon Shin-chan (WW+ included) 20 years 9 months
11th place* Doraemon 22 years 4 months
12th place* Touch 23 years 4 months
13th place* Oishinbo 24 years ? months
14th place* Fist of the North Star (WW+ and after completion) 26 years 6 months
15th place* The Kindaichi Case Files 26 years 8 months
16th place* Jojo 30 years 1 month
17th place* Astro boy 30 years ? months


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Yesterday, the official account of Kimetsu announced that the 4 coloring books of the series reached 1.43 million copies:
https://twitter.com/kimetsu_off/status/ ... 84805?s=20
It's funny that they bothered to announce an odd number like this for the coloring books instead of providing current total circulation of the manga.


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For anyone who is interested, Spy x Family has 12 million in circulation for 8 volumes.


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Yup it's really impressive ! Now the sales of volume 6th and 7th did almost the same after 4 weeks of selling so I'm wondering if the 8th will do better. Its a 1M+ seller so 1,5M copies print per volume is a good choice and must be sold when its anime'll be released.


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