Author: Gabriel Persechino-Forest     Published: January 10th, 2019

Let’s take a look at Japan’s best selling titles of 2018:

 

Top Selling Manga Series of 2018

  1. One Piece (8 113 317 sales)
  2. My Hero Academia (6 718 185)
  3. Attack on Titan (5 235 963)
  4. Slam Dunk (5 214 085)
  5. Haikyu!! (5 030 624)

A very strong year for My Hero Academia; looks like One Piece could get some serious competition in the future depending on how much sales keep increasing.

 

Top Selling Light Novel Series of 2018

  1. Overlord (807 693)
  2. Konosuba (630 889)
  3. The Irregular at Magic High School (626 952)
  4. Re:Zero (619 031)
  5. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (539 277)

Fans of Overlord should rejoice; with those numbers, it seems almost certain they will continue to adapt more of the series into anime in the future.

 

Source: Oricon and Article Image: One Piece volume 53 cover