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Jujutsu Kaisen is the Best-Selling Manga of 2024

Jujutsu Kaisen and One Piece compete quite evenly in sales in spite of Oda’s constant breaks for nearly a quarter of the year.

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JUJUTSU KAISEN © 2018-2024 by Gege Akutami/SHUEISHA Inc.

On November 27, 2024, we received the final yearly ranking in manga sales from Oricon, a company that provides comprehensive monitoring of sales in music, video games and manga from Japan.

Within this yearly ranking, Jujutsu Kaisen emerges as this year’s biggest seller with 7.6 million sales.

01./ Jujutsu Kaisen – 7,610,995
02./ One Piece – ~5,280,000
03./ Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End – ~4,955,000
04./ The Apothecary Diaries – ~4,695,000
05./ Blue Lock – 3,881,269
06./ Kaiju No. 8 – ~3,415,000
07./ Kingdom – ~3,235,000
08./ Haikyu!! – ~3,075,000
09./ My Hero Academia – ~2,910,000
10./ Spy x Family – ~2,710,000
11./ [Oshi no Ko] – ~2,215,000
12./ Wind Breaker – ~2,135,000
13./ That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime – ~2,120,000
14./ Blue Box – ~1,775,000
15./ Mashle: Magic and Muscles – ~1,615,000
16./ Chainsaw Man – ~1,470,000
17./ Dandadan – ~1,450,000
18./ Delicious in Dungeon – ~1,375,000
19./ Sakamoto Days – ~1,320,000
20./ Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun – ~1,270,000
21./ Detective Conan – ~1,260,000
22./ Hunter×Hunter – ~1,045,000
23./ Shangri-la Frontier – ~1,040,000
24./ Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure – ~1,035,000
25./ Boukyaku Battery – ~955,000
26./ Aoashi – ~950,000
27./ One-Punch Man – ~930,000
28./ Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun – ~920,000
29./ Daemons of the Shadow Realm – ~850,000
30./ Chiikawa Nanka Chiisakute Kawaii Yatsu – ~845,000

Although 2024 was the year in which Eiichiro Oda took the most breaks, with 16 weeks of breaks being taken, One Piece still stood strong with 5.2 million sales. One Piece only released 32 chapters out of the 52 weeks of the year.

Frieren, Apothecary Diaries and Kaiju No.8 have sold particularly well this year as their anime adaptations aired in 2024.

Blue Lock, which was the best seller of 2023, maintains a strong spot at 5th place. We will see how the controversial second season will affect sales for 2025.

Although the manga had concluded in 2020, Haikyu!! continues to , which could be attributed to the release of the first of the two HaikyÅ«!! FINAL movies,  “HaikyÅ«!! The Movie: Decisive Battle at the Garbage Dump”, in February 16, 2024. The movie has grossed $100.4 million worldwide.

We also received the 50 top-selling volumes of 2024 as well, with One Piece Volume 108 as the best-selling of this year with 1.5 million copies sold, followed closely behind by Jujutsu Kaisen Volume 25.

01. ONE PIECE 108 – 1.552.215
02. Jujutsu Kaisen 25 – 1.542.345
03. ONE PIECE 109 – 1.467.881
04. Jujutsu Kaisen 26 – 1.416.480
05. Jujutsu Kaisen 27 – 1.191.959
06. ONE PIECE 110 – 1.123.762
07. SPYxFAMILY 13 – 1.046.181
08. Jujutsu Kaisen 28 – 982.900
09. SPYxFAMILY 14 – 812.167
10. HUNTERxHUNTER 38 – 734.441
11. My Hero Academia 40 – 717.757
12. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 12 – 685.795
13. Kingdom 71 – 623.144
14. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 13 – 615.901
15. My Hero Academia 41 – 607.661
16. Kingdom 72 – 589.083
17. Kaiju No. 8 11 – 548.378
18. Kaiju No. 8 12 – 507.239
19. Kingdom 73 – 504.450
20. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 25 – 491.864
21. Kaiju No. 8 13 – 460.511
22. Blue Lock 27 – 451.315
23. Oshi no Ko 14 – 449.870
24. The Apothecary Diaries 13 – 445.237
25. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 26 – 443.205
26. Chainsaw Man 16 – 424.370
27. Do Not Say Mystery 14 – 411.084
28. Blue Lock 28 – 406.685
29. Oshi no Ko 15 – 398.878
30. ONE PIECE 107 – 397.184
31. World Trigger 27 – 387.478
32. Oshi no Ko 13 – 385.585
33. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 27 – 382.352
34. Detective Conan 105 – 370.081
35. Blue Lock 29 – 360.485
36. The Apothecary Diaries 14 – 359.701
37. Jujutsu Kaisen 24 – 359.616
38. Kingdom 70 – 342.649
39. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 11 – 334.167
40. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 10 – 334.039
41. Chainsaw Man 17 – 332.977
42. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 7 – 329.427
43. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 9 – 329.199
44. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 8 – 327.132
45. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 1 – 325.878
46. Delicious in Dungeon 14 – 324.109
47. Delicious in Dungeon 13 – 323.627
48. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End 6 – 307.854
49. Blue Lock 30 – 303.860
50. One-Punch Man 30 – 303.859

Although not among the top 30, Hunter x Hunter appears among the top 10 most sold volumes due to the release of the most recent volume and Togashi’s return on October 2024.

Among the top 50 volumes, Frieren has the most number of volumes on the list, reaching a total of 9 volumes (1, 8-13) with Volume 12 at the top.

Come April 2025, there will be a list of Series Top 50 and a Volume Top 200.

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