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Japan’s Best-Selling Light Novels, Manga of 2017 Listed

Best-Selling Light Novels of 2017Oricon, Japan’s tracker of all things sold, just released the stats on the best-selling light novels and manga of 2017 (how they did this before 2017 is actually over is anyone’s guess).

Anyway, here’s how light novels and manga fared in the year 2017:

Light novels (title, author/illustrator, copies sold)

1. Sword Art Online
Reki Kawahara / abec
1,173,096

2. KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World
Natsume Akatsuki / Kurone Mishima
960,418

3. Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-
Tappei Nagatsuki / Shinichirou Otsuka
925,671

4. The Irregular at Magic High School
Tsutomu Sato / Kana Ishida
809,636

5. Classroom of the Elite
Shougo Kinugasa / Shunsaku Tomose
564,642

6. Your Name (novelization)
Makoto Shinkai
501,026

7. Eromanga Sensei
Tsukasa Fushimi / Hiro Kanzaki
489,916

8. Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor
Taro Hitsuji / Kurone Mishima
443,995

9. Overlord
Kugane Maruyama / so-bin
426,706

10. Saga of Tanya the Evil
Carlo Zen / Shinobu Shinotsuki
417,897

Manga (title, author/illustrator, copies sold)


1. One Piece
Eiichiro Oda
11,495,532

2. Attack on Titan
Hajime Isayama
6,622,781

3. Kingdom
Yasuhisa Hara
6,184,214

4. My Hero Academia
Kohei Horikoshi
5,852,310

5. Tokyo Ghoul:re
Sui Ishida
5,303,514

6. Haikyu!!
Haruichi Furudate
5,067,939

7. The Seven Deadly Sins
Nakaba Suzuki
3,592,571

8. One Punch Man
ONE / Yusuke Murata
3,223,151

9. Food Wars!
Yuto Tsukuda / Shun Saeki

10. Magi
Shinobu Ohtaka
2,713,074

There you have it, folks. Any of your favorites on the list?

Source: Oricon

Matt Schley

Matt Schley (rhymes with "guy") lives in Tokyo, and has been OUSA's "man in Japan" since 2012. He's also written about anime and Japanese film for the Japan Times, Screen Daily and more.

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