Top 10 Best-Selling Manga Of All Time In Terms Of Number Of Sales
Manga industry has grown enormously in the past couple of years and several mangas are released every month in Japan. Reports say, more than 500+ categories of manga are published monthly including popular ones like shōnen, seinen & rom-com but, in such a humungous list which is the best-selling manga of all time?
Eiichiro Oda’s written popular manga series “One Piece” stands at the top of the list with the highest numbers of sales crossing 500 million copies. This makes One Piece the second best-selling comic book in the world after DC’s Superman series. In the second position, the classic manga series Golgo 13 stands still with total sales of 300 million manga copies.
The following is a list of the top 10 best-selling manga series to date in terms of the number of collected tankōbon volumes sold.
#1 One Piece by Eiichiro Oda (500 million)
#2 Golgo 13 by Takao Saito (300 million)
#3 Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama (260 million)
#4 Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama (250 million)
#5 Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto (250 million)
#6 Doraemon by Fujiko F. Fujio (250 million)
#7 Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue (170 million)
#8 KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops by Osamu Akimoto (156 million)
#9 Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge (150 million)
#10 Crayon Shin-chan by Yoshito Usui (148 million)
Apart from these best-selling series, some other well-known manga series also ranked in the list. Tite Kubo’s shōnen series, Bleach ranked 12th on the list with a total of 120 million copies in circulation. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (120 million) and Attack On Titan (100 million) ranked in 13th and 15th positions respectively.
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