Twelve years. It’s been 12 long years since the One Piece manga created by mangaka Eiichiro Oda has reigned supreme as the number one manga in Japan. Unfortunately, like most things in life, all good things must come to an end. The hit phenomenon Demon Slayer has now taken over Japan by selling the most volumes for the year 2019. Now some of you may be wondering why this is such a big deal. Well, One Piece is pretty much king in Japan where its hard for most series to even come close to the number of sales that One Piece generates yearly and for a brand new book to come and outsell this juggernaut is astonishing.
So let’s look at all of the sales done by the manga series that made it into the top 10. The sales are counted from November 19 of 2018- November 17, 2019. Let us know your thoughts on the top 10 manga sales for 2019 and what do you think about Demon Slayer taking the coveted number one spot.
| Rank | Title | Author | Estimated Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | Koyoharu Gotouge | 12,057,628 |
| 2 | ONE PIECE | Eiichiro Oda | 10,134,232 |
| 3 | Kingdom | Yasuhisa Hara | 7,661,361 |
| 4 | The Promised Neverland | Original Story: Kaiu Shirai/Art: Posuka Demizu | 7,454,745 |
| 5 | The Quintessential Quintuplets | Negi Haruba | 5,895,000 |
| 6 | My Hero Academia | Kōhei Horikoshi | 5,047,574 |
| 7 | Attack on Titan | Hajime Isayama | 4,704,234 |
| 8 | Haikyu!! | Haruichi Furudate | 4,514,838 |
| 9 | Kaguya-sama: Love is War | Aka Akasaka | 4,096,492 |
| 10 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime manga | Original Story: Fuse/Art: Taiki Kawakami/Original Character Design: Mitz Vah | 3,414,482 |
