Author: Gabriel Persechino-Forest Published: December 24th, 2019
Bookwalker Global Sales Ranking
Here is Bookwalker (Light novel ebook store)’s list of top selling light novel series for 2019 for the global market (Does not include Japan):
- The Rising of the Shield Hero
- Ascendance of a Bookworm
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World
- Konosuba – God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World!
- Arifureta – From Commonplace to World’s Strongest
- No Game, No Life
- How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
- How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
- Combatants Will Be Dispatched!
- So I’m a Spider, So What?
- Reincarnated as a Sword
- Overlord
- Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?
- Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
- Monogatari
- 86 Eighty-Six
- An Archdemon’s Dilemma: How to Love your Elf Bride
- Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!
- Goblin Slayer
Manga:
- Under One Roof With the Beast
- The Quintessential Quintuplets
- Daddy’s Boyfriend
- Time for a Kiss, Master
- Don’t Mess with me
- Domestic Girlfriend
- Public Sex
- The Rising of the Shield Hero
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
- Goodbye! I’m Being Reincarnated!
- Roommate
- The Knight Cartoonist and her Orc Editor
- Dog Tag
- Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler
- O Maidens in Your Savage Season
- Creature Girls: A Hands-On Field Journal in Another World
- Yuri Is My Job!
- Imperfect Girl
- I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up
- The Ideal Sponger Life
Source: Bookwalker (Article Image as well)
Top Selling Manga in Japan (2019)
- Demon Slayer (12 057 628 in sales)
- One Piece (10 134 232)
- Kingdom (7 661 361)
- The Promised Neverland (7 454 745)
- The Quintessential Quintuplets (5 895 000)
- My Hero Academia (5 047 574)
- Attack on Titan (4 704 234)
- Haikyu!! (4 514 838)
- Kaguya-sama: Love is War (4 096 492)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (3 414 482)
Source: Oricon
Top Selling Light Novels in Japan (2019)
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (879 734)
- Weathering with You (634 151)
- Sword Art Online (615 363)
- Re:Zero (550 202)
- Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girls (536 494)
- Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (461 024)
- Is it Wrong to Try and Pick up Girls in a Dungean? (434 034)
- The Irregular at Magic High School (429 217)
- Classroom of the Elite (420 573)
- Demon Slayer (407 640)
Source: Oricon
White Paper on North American Manga Industry
From 2017 to 2018, the gross revenue for manga sales rose by 7.24%. Manga sales kept growing from a year-to-year basis since 2013 but numbers are still not approaching the same levels as the peak of 2006 – 2007. In 2018, manga represented as much as 25% of graphic novel sales in the United-States.
Source: Anime News Network