Kimetsu no Yaiba has a good chance of outselling One Piece for the year, and here's why.
This is about total sales for the 2019 fiscal year including the sales of every single volume of each series, not sales of one individual volume vs. another. I know One Piece volumes almost always double the sales of the #2 volume every week they release. One Piece is still undeniably the best selling manga of all time and no other individual volumes come close to it. Don't waste anyone's time with this argument.
This is a big deal because One Piece has been the #1 selling series every year for the past 11 years straight. The closest series to selling more than One Piece in a single year was Attack on Titan the year it had its first anime season.
For those of you who don't know, Japan's fiscal year ends on the third Sunday of November and starts the next day, not on January 1st. Both Kimetsu and One Piece released their final volume for the fiscal year last week. Here are the sales for the top 11 series for the year as of 2 weeks ago. The gap between One Piece is 507,919 volumes. Here are the top 10 selling series last week (Kimetsu is #2). That would add 137,919 volumes to the gap and make the current gap between the two series for this year 645,838. Here is One Piece's sales for the first 4 weeks for the latest 10 volumes. Here is a graph showing Kimetsu's sales for the year ^(and how stupid the person/team in charge of deciding how many new volumes should be printed is). Just based on the facts that the anime just ended and there is a lot of hype surrounding it and the movie announcement, Kimetsu was the #1 selling series in September by more than a million copies despite not having a new volume release, book stores are currently experiecing a shortage on all volumes, Kimetsu didn't even sell a total of 3 million copies prior to the start of this year, and the sales for volume 17 will easily more than double by the time the fiscal year ends on November 17th, this could end up closer than the 157,589 volume difference between One Piece and Attack on Titan in 2014, with either side being on top.
TL;DR - The Kimetsu no Yaiba manga was a lot more slept on by Japan before the anime than any of you think. See you all at the end of November when the results are announced.
Posted Oct 10, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC
thats very cute but with certain developments occuring in one piece the next volume (i actually mean the current one piece volume my bad) sales will probably eclipse everyone elses once again
This is what it looks like when you're wrong. If you can't read it, Kimetsu is at 9,994,120 and One Piece is at 9,771,454. The fiscal year ends in 3 and a half weeks and the gap will only widen from here.
Ikr egg on my face Good for you though You had the foresight to realise this. And my balls are exposed
That's very cute, but the next One Piece volume won't release this year so it has absolutely nothing to do with this thread now, does it?
Okay, stop downvoting him, people. He's absolutely right that One Piece next volume is irrelevant because it won't release this year.
It's my fault for expecting this subreddit full of ignorant children to listen to reason. I love One Piece as much as everyone else here and know how much hype the latest chapters have been, but the subreddit is full of immature kids that don't understand how amazing these statistics are or what they mean. I'd love to see an update of this video at the end of the year... Just look at the part of the video displaying how big it was in 2010. Imagine this monster losing to another manga.
No series can even come close to One Piece on a volume basic, but it would be an amazing moment if Kimetsu can surpass it this year alone. The last time it happened was more than one decade ago.
Even if Kimetsu eventually falls short, it will be closer than anyone ever predicted.
Even if it did happen One Piece fans would start throwing shit and screeching ‘OnE PiEcE StiLL haS MoRe SaLeS OvErAll!’
It’s honestly the thing I hate most about the anime/manga community where fans get weirdly attached to a show to the point where they can’t even criticize a single thing about it, like the guy who started this comment thread and got defensive the moment he felt his favorite series was being threatened lmao, as if it’s really that important
okay but how does the ranking work is it the total volumes of the series that have the title Kimetsu no yaiba or is it starting from whatever volume it was selling from january 2019?
were both oricon statistics released the same day where one pieces volume 94 was only out two days?
so is this whole thing comparing the sales of an entire series to a fraction of one piece?
You know how every year we have an article like "list of best selling manga in 20xx"? What OP is talking about is all manga sales in the fiscal year 2019 (November 2018- November 2019). How much next volume of One Piece will sell is entirely irrelevant because it will be released next year.
i was referring to the current volume by accident 94 which came out 6 days ago
This is how much One Piece volumes 1-94 have sold this year vs. Kimetsu volumes 1-17 this year. Also, Kimetsu 17 released the same day as One Piece 94.