Japan Top Weekly Manga Ranking: December 14, 2020 ~ December 20, 2020

Number of copies sold for Kimetsu no Yaiba‘s Volume 23 have shown a dramatic rise as it recorded almost 60% growth ending the week with 587,016 copies sold. Nevertheless, it was Kimetsu no Yaiba Gaiden that was the MVP for the week, climbing as much as 74.39% from 78,607 copies it sold the previous week to 306,924 copies. The rest of the series’ volumes have recorded minute drops in sales, however the amount of copies sold for each volume remained strong.

It is thanks to the amazing folks over at Oricon that we get to see these charts on a weekly basis, so be sure to head over to their site here and show them lots of love! The data you find below can all be found through Oricon right here (Manga) and here (Series).

Apart from that, there are three new releases which made their debuts in the chart with Kingdom‘s Volume 60 at number 2. Sales for the 60th volume is modestly better than the 59th when it came out back in September — it sold 392,632 copies then. It remains to be seen if it can maintain the number of copies sold above 200,000 copies sold the following which if it does, will give it a slight advantage over 59th. At number 8 is Golden Kamuy‘s Volume 24, like Kingdom, has seen better debut-to-debut sales. Compared to Volume 23’s performance in its first week, Volume 24 has reported slightly better growth. At number 9 is Detective Conan Keisatsu Gakkou Hen Wild Police Story with 101,623 copies. That said, Top 11 to 30 is pretty scary. The full list is as follows:


1. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 23 (↑58.21%)
by Koyoharu Gotouge

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: December 2020
Price: 506 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 587,016
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 23


2. Kingdom Vol. 60 (NEW)
by Yasuhisa Hara

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: December 2020
Price: 638 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 426,897
Link (JPN): Kingdom Vol. 60


3. Kimetsu no Yaiba Gaiden (↑74.39%)
by (Original) Koyoharu Gotouge and (Art) Ryouji Hirano

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: December 2020
Price: 506 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 306,924
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Gaiden


4. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 8 (↓4.29%)
by Koyoharu Gotouge

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: October 2017
Price: 440 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 118,607
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 8
Link (ENG): Vol. 8


5. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 9 (↓5.89%)
by Koyoharu Gotouge

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: December 2017
Price: 440 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 113,558
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 9
Link (ENG): Vol. 9


6. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 10 (↓14.40%)
by Koyoharu Gotouge

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: March 2018
Price: 440 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 104,123
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 10
Link (ENG): Vol. 10


7. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 11 (↓7.45%)
by Koyoharu Gotouge

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Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: June 2018
Price: 440 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 104,078
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 11
Link (ENG): Vol. 11


8. Golden Kamuy Vol. 24 (NEW)
by Satoru Noda

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: December 2020
Price: 594 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 102,546
Link (JPN): Golden Kamuy Vol. 24
Link (ENG): Vol. 19; Vol. 20; Vol. 21


9. Detective Conan Keisatsu Gakkou Hen Wild Police Story [First Part] (NEW)
by (Original) Gosho Aoyama and (Art) Takahiro Arai

Publisher: Shogakukan
Release date: December 2020
Price: 750 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 101,623
Link (JPN): Detective Conan Keisatsu Gakkou Hen Wild Police Story [First Part]


10. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 7 (↓23.90%)
by Koyoharu Gotouge

Publisher: Shueisha
Release date: August 2017
Price: 440 yen (tax included)
Estimated number of sales: 98,173
Link (JPN): Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 7
Link (ENG): Vol. 7


Special Column

Manga Sales Top 11 – Top 30 (Title *Total Number of Sales)

11. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 1
12. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1
13. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 13
14. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 12
15. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 8
16. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 11
17. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 2
18. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 9
19. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 10
20. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 3
21. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 5
22. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 4
23. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 6
24. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 22
25. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 2
26. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 3
27. Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 12
28. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 4
29. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 7
30. Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 5

*93,561
*90,204
*89,621
*89,075
*88,636
*88,061
*88,032
*87,765
*87,740
*87,057
*86,769
*85,929
*84,012
*80,968
*80,500
*80,367
*77,912
*77,746
*76,371
*76,147

Weekly Ranking by Series (As of 4th Week of December 2020)

1. Kimetsu no Yaiba

Kimetsu no Yaiba Vol. 23
Type: Comic
Total amount of sales during the period: 1,527.0 million yen (tax included)

2. Jujutsu Kaisen

Jujutsu Kaisen Vol. 1
Type: Comic
Total amount of sales during the period: 582.2 million yen (tax included)

3. Midnight Runner

Miman Keisatsu Midnight Runner Blu-ray BOX
Type: Drama
Total amount of sales during the period: 518.4 million yen (tax included)


As usual, if you find any faults with the list, please do not hesitate to let me know! Also, don’t shy away from sharing your thoughts down below!

Source: Oricon

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