Mo Dao Zu Shi remains as popular as ever in Japan with the release of its Volume 3 topping the chart at 25,891 copies sold. The appearance of its 3rd volume has also rallied sales of Volume 2, which places 10th for the week seeing copies sold at 5,035 copies. Volume 1 and Volume 2 were released the same week back between May 24 to May 30 with elated sales. Including sales of Volume 1’s Special Edition, the two volumes saw 46,224 copies sold that week. Then, in April, the release of its Anime ‘Mo Dao Zu Shi Zenjin-hen‘ recorded decent sales at 4,511 copies sold in its first week, the follow up season ‘Mo Dao Zu Shi: Xian Yun Pian‘ made its debut in June with slightly better sales at 5,609 copies sold.
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Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen and Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu have both experienced fewer sales week-on-week with the first suffering a much larger drop than the latter. Two-week sales for Youkoso is by far its weakest since Volume 1, though we may want to wait further till Week 3. Re:Zero on the other hand witnessed better two-week sales compared to Volume 25’s 26,306 copies, but lower than that of Volume 26. As of July the 4th, Volume 27 has seen 28,056 copies sold, yet this is still lower than sales reported by Volume 22 to Volume 24, which all had sales above 30,000 copies as of Week 2.
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The Light Novel release for Spy x Family settles for 3rd place with 16,500 copies sold for the week. Note that the Light Novel is authored by Aya Yajima who previously worked on a slew of Kimetsu no Yaiba Light Novels such as: Katabane no Chou and Shiawase no Hana. They all had a great run up till around February this year. Therefore, it will be quite interesting to see how it will perform hereon.
Other new releases making onto the chart are Magical★Explorer: Eroge no Yuujin Kyara ni Tensei shita kedo, Game Chishiki Tsukatte Jiyuu ni Ikiru Volume 5, Saikyou Degarashi Ouji no Anyaku Teii Arasoi: Munou wo Enjiru SS Rank Ouji wa Koui Keishousen wo Kage kara Shihai suru Volume 7 and Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu Volume 8, all possess their own Manga adaptation of the same name. Magical★Explorer is set to receive its official English release through publisher YEN ON this November, and I have also included the promotional video down below, so do check them out! Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu has so far three releases in the West with Volume 3 up for pre-order.
Hidan no Aria Volume 35 fell two spots to number 6 with 6,596 copies sold while Ryuu to Sobakasu no Hime improved by 8.64% to see it ended the week with 6,562 copies sold. The title has so far accumulated 18,541 copies sold so far as of Week 3. Without further ado, the full list is as follows:
Light Novel Weekly Top 10
1. Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 3 (NEW)
by (Author) Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and (Illustration) Qian Er Bai
Publisher: Frontier Works
Release date: June 2021
Price: 1,760 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 25,891
Link (JPN): Vol. 3
2. Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 2-nensei-hen Vol. 4.5 (↓46.52%)
by (Author) Shougo Kinugasa and (Illustration) Shunsaku Tomose
Publisher: KADOKAWA
Release date: June 2021
Price: 726 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 23,404
Link (JPN): Vol. 4.5
3. Spy x Family: Kazoku no Shouzou (NEW)
by (Original) Tatsuya Endo and (Novel) Aya Yajima
Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: July 2021
Price: 770 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 16,500
Link (JPN): CDJapan
4. Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu Vol. 27 (↓26.44%)
by (Author) Tappei Nagatsuki and (Art) Shinichirou Ootsuka
Publisher: KADOKAWA
Release date: June 2021
Price: 726 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 11,891
Link (JPN): Vol. 27
Link (ENG): Catalogue
5. Magical★Explorer: Eroge no Yuujin Kyara ni Tensei shita kedo, Game Chishiki Tsukatte Jiyuu ni Ikiru Vol. 5 (NEW)
by (Author) Iris and (Illustration) Noboru Kannatsuki
Publisher: KADOKAWA
Release date: July 2021
Price: 704 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 8,363
Link (JPN): Vol. 5
Link (ENG): Vol. 1
6. Hidan no Aria Vol. 35 (↓38.65%)
by (Author) Chuugaku Akamatsu and (Illustration) Kobuichi
Publisher: KADOKAWA
Release date: June 2021
Price: 726 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 6,596
Link (JPN): Vol. 35
7. Ryuu to Sobakasu no Hime (↑8.64%)
by Mamoru Hosoda
Publisher: KADOKAWA
Release date: June 2021
Price: 726 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 6,562
Link (JPN): CDJapan
8. Saikyou Degarashi Ouji no Anyaku Teii Arasoi: Munou wo Enjiru SS Rank Ouji wa Koui Keishousen wo Kage kara Shihai suru Vol. 7 (NEW)
by (Author) Tanba and (Illustration) Yuunagi
Publisher: KADOKAWA
Release date: July 2021
Price: 748 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 5,497
Link (JPN): Vol. 7
9. Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu Vol. 8 (NEW)
by (Author) Yomu Mishima and (Illustration) Monda
Publisher: Micro Magazine
Release date: July 2021
Price: 1,320 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 5,408
Link (JPN): Vol. 8
Link (ENG): Catalogue
10. Mo Dao Zu Shi Vol. 2 (N/A)
by (Author) Mo Xiang Tong Xiu and (Illustration) Qian Er Bai
Publisher: Frontier Works
Release date: May 2021
Price: 1,760 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of copies: 5,035
Link (JPN): Vol. 2
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