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
- One Piece (8 113 317 sales)
- My Hero Academia (6 718 185)
- Attack on Titan (5 235 963)
- Slam Dunk (5 214 085)
- 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
- Overlord (807 693)
- Konosuba (630 889)
- The Irregular at Magic High School (626 952)
- Re:Zero (619 031)
- 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