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Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series - November 2018
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Publishers will often reveal how many copies of a manga or light novel series volumes are in print. The following are print counts ANN has found recently, listed in order of how many volumes are available. The numbers are for Japan totals only unless otherwise specified.
| Manga | # of Copies in Print | # of Volumes in Print | Source |
| Kindaichi Case Files (entire franchise) | 95 million | 95 (85 manga volumes from various series, 10 novel volumes) | An!bu (November 13) |
| Uramiya Honpo manga franchise | 5 million | 65 | Weekly Shonen Jump first 2019 issue (December 3) |
| Haikyu!! (manga and novels) | 33 million (combined total for manga and novels, 1.5 million for novels only) | 51 (35 main manga volumes, 7 spinoff manga volumes, 10 novel volumes as of December 4) | Haikyu!!.com website's official Twitter account (November 26), Weekly Shonen Jump first 2019 issue (December 3) |
| Terra Formars | 21 million (worldwide) | 40 (22 main manga volumes, 13 spinoff manga volumes, 5 light novel volumes) | 22nd manga volume (November 19) |
| The Seven Deadly Sins | 30 million | 34 | 34th manga volume (November 16) |
| Yona of the Dawn | 6.8 million (including digital sales) | 28 | 28th manga volume (November 20) |
| Fruits Basket | 30 million (worldwide) | 23 | Hana to Yume issue 24 (November 20) |
| Bungo Stray Dogs | 6 million | 17 (16 of main series, 1 of spinoff as of December 4) | Animate Times (November 17) |
| Major 2nd | 6.5 million | 16 | 16th manga volume (November 16) |
| Anonymous Noise | 2.3 million (includes digital sales) | 16 | Hana to Yume issue 23 (November 5) |
| Darwin's Game | 2 million | 16 | 16th manga volume (November 8) |
| Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu | 10 million | 15 | Sho-Comi issue 24 (November 20) |
| Fire Force | 2.3 million | 15 | 15th manga volume (November 16) |
| Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | 3 million | 13 | Weekly Shonen Jump issue 52 (November 26) |
| Hanebado! | 1.6 million (includes digital sales) | 13 (14th volume out on November 22) | good! Afternoon December issue (November 7) |
| Non Non Biyori | 1.75 million | 13 | 13th manga volume (November 21) |
| Tsubaki-cho Lonely Planet | 3.35 million (including digital sales) | 12 | 12th manga volume (November 22) |
| Magical Girl Site | 1.3 million | 12 | 12th manga volume (November 8) |
| Grand Blue Dreaming | 3.5 million | 11 (12th volume out on November 22) | good! Afternoon December issue (November 7) |
| The Promised Neverland | 8.7 million (worldwide) | 11 | Animate Times (November 25) |
| Black Lagoon | 7 million | 11 | Junkudo bookstore chain's Osaka store Twitter account (November 17) |
| Kaguya-sama: Love is War | 3.25 million | 11 | Manga's Twitter account (November 16) |
| Boys Over Flowers Season 2 | 2.5 million | 11 (as of December 4) | Weekly Shonen Jump first 2019 issue (December 3) |
| Dorei-ku: Boku to 23-nin no Dorei | 4 million | 10 | Third manga volume of artist Hiroto Ōishi's new Nari Kawari manga (November 9) |
| Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store | 2.25 million | 10 | Kadokawa's listing of manga's 10th volume, out on January 26 (site accessed on November 30) |
| Boarding School Juliet | 2.2 million | 10 | Weekly Shonen Magazine 52nd issue (November 28) |
| Anitomo | 1 million (including digital sales) | 10 | 10th manga volume (November 20) |
| Can You Just Die, My Darling? | 1.2 million | 9 | Ninth manga volume (November 16) |
| Tokyo Revengers | 1 million | 9 | Ninth manga volume (November 16) |
| Honey Lemon Soda | 1 million | 8 | Ribon magazine's Twitter account (November 8) |
| Happy Sugar Life | 1 million | 8 | Animate Times (November 16) |
| Ms. Koizumi loves ramen noodles | 1.3 million | 7 | Manga Life Storia's Twitter account (November 30) |
| Kanojo, Okarishimasu | 1 million | 7 | Seventh manga volume (November 16) |
| Splatoon | 1.2 million | 6 (7th volume out on November 28) | Coro Coro Comics December issue (November 15) |
| Interviews with Monster Girls | 1.4 million | 6 | Da Vinci December issue (November 6) |
| The Quintessential Quintuplets | 1.3 million | 6 | Crank-In (November 26) |
| Jingai-san no Yome | 550,000 (includes digital sales) | 6 | Young Magazine the 3rd December issue (November 6) |
| Kindaichi Shōnen no Jikenbo Gaiden: Hannin-tachi no Jikenbo | 1 million (includes digital sales) | 4 | Fourth manga volume (November 16) |
| Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shōmei Shite Mita | 600,000 | 4 | Live-action film adaptation's trailer (November 26) |
| LV999 no Murabito | 300,000 | 3 | Monthly Comp Ace January issue (November 26) |
| Kimi wa 008 | 170,000 | 3 | Third manga volume (November 16) |
| Kindaichi 37-sai no Jikenbo | 600,000 | 2 | Evening magazine's 24th issue (November 27) |
| GIGANT | 350,000 | 2 | Big Comic Superior's Twitter account (account reTweeted post by @Macchanleda) (November 23) |
| Novel Title | # of Copies in Print | # of Volumes in Print | Source |
| My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected (light novels and manga) | 8 million | 45 (13 light novels, 3 spinoff light novels, 25 manga volumes, 4 comic anthology volumes) | Monthly Sunday GX's Twitter account (November 19) |
| That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (light novels and manga) | 8 million | 28 (14 novel volumes (including volume 8.5), 14 manga volumes) | GameWith (November 30) |
| Kenja no Mago (light novels and manga) | 1.5 million | 18 (8 light novels, 2 spinoff light novels, 8 manga volumes) | Cho! Animedia (November 29) |
| Seishun Buta Yaro (light novels and manga) | 1 million | 12 (9 light novels, 3 manga volumes) | Kadokawa press release (November 18) |
follow-up of Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series - October 2018
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