Jujutsu Kaisen Beats Out Demon Slayer As Japan’s Best Selling Manga Series In 2021

Game Rant

By Adriano Valente

Published Nov 30, 2021

Both series decidedly beat out other popular titles like Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, and One Piece.

Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen was Japan’s best-selling manga series in 2021 according to numbers put out by Oricon.

The series sold an estimated 30,917,746 copies from November 23rd, 2020 to November 21st, 2021, beating out Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer by a little over 1.4 million copies. Both series are enjoying impressive success and sustained popularity, with the Demon Slayer manga selling an estimated 29,511,021 copies.

The top-selling manga series for the year are as follows;

Jujutsu Kaisen - 30,917,746
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - 29,511,021
Tokyo Revengers - 24,981,486
Attack on Titan - 7,332,398
My Hero Academia - 7,020,361

Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, and Tokyo Revengers are some of the most popular series currently in production. My Hero Academia remains a prominent force alongside Attack on Titan, though there is a notable drop in numbers between the top three and the top best-sellers’ bottom two.

Demon Slayer’s 23rd and final volume stood as the best-selling manga in Japan this past year, selling a record 5,171,440 units. The spin-off one-shot, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba--Stories of Water and Flame, was the year’s second best-selling manga, coming in at 2,374,621 estimated sales.

The top 10 best selling manga by volume are;

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 23 - 5,171,440
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba--Stories of Water and Flame - 2,374,621
Jujutsu Kaisen 14 - 2,312,250
Jujutsu Kaisen 15 - 2,306,950
Jujutsu Kaisen 16 - 2,098,087
One Piece 98 - 2,018,042
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 - 1,930,831
One Piece 99 - 1,863,574
One Piece 100 - 1,839,886
Jujutsu Kaisen 13 - 1,772,617

Demon Slayer and Jujutsu Kaisen dominated the individual sales, with One Piece remaining a steady presence despite placing lower than the two contemporary Jump series. Demon Slayer also topped the list of 2021’s best-selling light novel series, with the light novel adaptation selling around 776,320 units throughout the year. The rest of the top five stand as;