Japan Top 10 Weekly Light Novel Ranking: May 3, 2021 ~ May 9, 2021

The list for Top 10 Light Novel sales ranking remains relatively unchanged except for the addition of two new volumes from Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index (No. 4) and Isekai ni Teni shitara Yama no Naka datta. Handou de Tsuyosa yori mo Kaitekisa wo Erabimashita. (No. 10). The two reported very few sales made for the week as comparison with the debut sales of previous volumes present a huge gap between copies sold made then and the ones made from May 3 to May 9. Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index‘s Volume 3, which was released in November 2020 saw copies sold at 20,594 copies as opposed to Volume 4’s 8,096 copies. It is down 60.68% debut-to-debut. Isekai ni Teni shitara Yama no Naka datta. Handou de Tsuyosa yori mo Kaitekisa wo Erabimashita.‘s Volume 4 on the other hand, fell 47.73% from debut sales of Volume 3 to see only 3,787 copies sold for the week. It is very likely that this could be due to the pandemic, and the state of emergency declared by Japan could have worsen sales for new releases (source: NHK). But, that remains to be seen as copies sold tend to pick up the following week for some titles that start out weak.

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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto is still going strong despite the decline in sales. The series’ Volume 11 sold 37,322 copies in its first week. The number is now down to 27,398 copies for both Regular and Limited Editions. That should put the combined sales of the two editions as of Week 2 at 64,720 copies. Considering the price of the Limited Edition, this is great sales indeed. Most titles are down for the week with the exception of Detective Conan: Hiiro no Dangan which reported a climb of 14.07% week-on-week. Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka‘s sales have now reached 78,973 copies as of Week 3 while Isekai Nonbiri Nouka‘s Volume 10 saw copies sold as of Week 2 stand at 16,690. Without further ado, the full list is as follows:

Light Novel Weekly Top 10

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Source: Oricon

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