Ranking of the 10 best-selling manga in 2021: Despite heavy investment, One Piece still loses to these 5 masterpieces? 4
Most recently, Oricon – a famous Japanese statistics site – continues to publish manga sales rankings.
Note: Statistical period is calculated from November 23, 2020 to November 21, 2021.
Top 1 – Jujutsu Kaisen
Total sales: 30,917,746
2021 is a great year for the Jujutsu Kaisen manga.
Top 2 – Kimetsu no Yaiba
Total sales: 29,511,021
In recent years, Kimetsu no Yaiba has always been a manga series that is most loved by readers in Japan and many countries around the world.
Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series by author Gotoge Koyoharu.
Top 3 – Tokyo Revengers
Total sales: 24,981,486
The Tokyo Revengers manga series is a shounen manga series by author Wakui Ken, published periodically in Kodansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine since March 2017. It is a manga that successfully combines the elements of a street gang.
Top 4 – Attack on Titan
Total sales: 7,332,398
2021 is the year that closes the memorable 9-year journey of the world’s most popular survival manga Attack on Titan.
Top 5 – My Hero Academia
Total sales: 7,020,361
My Hero Academia is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Horikoshi Kohei.
Top 6 – One Piece
Total sales: 7,002,583
Even though it was a year full of events and massive investment, One Piece only ranked 6th in this ranking with more than 7 million copies sold.
Top 7 – Chainsaw Man
Total sales: 5,212,578
Immediately after receiving information about the anime adaptation, rookie manga Chainsaw Man made great strides in sales.
The main character of Chainsaw Man is Denji.
Top 8 – Spy x Family
Total sales: 4,973,402
Like Chainsaw, Spy x Family is also a series that is receiving a lot of attention from readers when the anime adaptation was announced.
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Top 9 – Kingdom
Total sales: 4,672,612
This is a manga series with a rare historical plot that is loved by readers around the world at the present time.
Top 10 – Haikyu!!
Total sales: 4,345,443
This is the only manga about sports that can maintain its appeal in 2021. With a record of more than 4 million copies sold and a top 10 position, this is probably an encouraging achievement for Haikyu!!.
Above are the top 10 best-selling manga of 2021 with most of them being outstanding rookies over the years.
