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Oricon recently revealed its top 20 most-sold series of December 2024. With many series ending or getting anime adaptations, the sales reflect it in numbers.
Although some very popular series didn’t make it high, it is expected, as their latest volumes dropped months ago.
The Best-Selling Manga Series in December According to Oricon
Jujutsu Kaisen Takes The Top Spot
The best-selling manga series in December of 2024 is none other thanJujutsu Kaisen. This isn’t too surprising, however, seeing that this widely popular story has now come to an end.Jujutsu Kaisen’sfinal volume dropped in December, which explains these very high sales. This final volume also featured a brand-new epilogue.
The total sales for December that Jujutsu Kaisen had was 1,836,843 copies.
The 2nd to 5th Most Sold Manga Series in December 2024
My Hero Academia Ranks Up There
The second most-sold manga in December 2024 wasMy Hero Academia, a popular series by Kohei Horikoshi. Just likeJujutsu Kaisen,My Hero Academiarecently came to an end, and that definitely helped boost volume sales. The final volume ofMHAalso had a pretty significant epilogue. It sold 1,182, 751 copies.
In third place, it’sDandadan.Dandadanhas been one of the newest anime hits. Its manga sales were brought up thanks to its very successful anime adaptation that was airing recently. With that, Dandadan sold 772,790 copies.
In 4th place,Blue Lockis one of the top series with the most sold copies in December 2024. Blue Lock has been a very popular series, despite its anime adaptation taking a nose dive in quality. It ended up selling 587,071 copies.
In 5th place, it’sKingdom.Kingdomhas always been one of the best-performing mangas, and it has been for a while. It managed to keep its popularity up over the years, and this December sold a total of 473,992 copies.
The Rest of the Top 10
With the top 5 out of the way, the other 5 mangas in the top 10 did pretty well for themselves.
The 6th placed manga wasOshi No Ko. Just likeJujutsu KaisenandMy Hero Academia, it ended recently, which definitely helps with its sales.
Blue Box, which recently got an anime, makes it to the 7th spot.
The Apothecary Diariestakes 8th placeas one of the most successful manga right now. Its new anime season in 2025 is highly anticipated.
Chainsaw Man’slatest release saw to it that it takes the 9th spot.
