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Top-Selling Media Franchises in Japan: 2018 (First Half)
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Love Live!, Idolm@ster, Fate, One Piece, Touken Ranbu lead home video/CD/novel/manga sales
This list covers sales surveyed from December 11, 2017 to June 10, 2018. It includes the raw yen totals of Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, music CDs, novels in print, and manga in print, but not games, film tickets, digital downloads, and other forms of media sales.
| Rank | Estimated Sales in Period |
Title | Home Video |
Music | Novels | Manga | Other |
| 1 | 3,874,678,772 | Love Live! | •• | • | • | • | |
| 2 | 3,631,260,817 | The IDOLM@STER Series | •• | • | • | • | |
| 3 | 2,583,316,115 | Fate Series | •• | • | • | • | |
| 4 | 2,582,698,618 | One Piece | • | • | • | •• | |
| 5 | 2,501,030,882 | Touken Ranbu | •• | • | • | • | |
| 6 | 1,798,001,848 | Detective Conan | • | • | • | •• | |
| 7 | 1,700,770,851 | Star Wars Series | •• | • | • | • | |
| 8 | 1,527,590,108 | Mobile Suit Gundam | •• | • | • | • | |
| 9 | 1,492,599,654 | The Seven Deadly Sins (Nakaba Suzuki) | • | • | •• | ||
| 10 | 1,466,520,948 | Karakai Jōzu no Takagi-san | • | • | •• | ||
| 11 | 1,440,212,478 | Kamen Rider Series | •• | • | • | • | |
| 12 | 1,427,623,848 | My Hero Academia | • | • | • | •• | |
| 13 | 1,415,141,786 | Kingdom | • | • | • | •• | |
| 14 | 1,404,605,495 | Attack on Titan | • | • | • | •• | |
| 15 | 1,370,173,452 | Tokyo Ghoul | • | • | • | •• | |
| 16 | 1,312,405,987 | Boys Over Flowers | • | •• | • | • | |
| 17 | 1,254,968,176 | Haikyu!! | • | • | • | •• | |
| 18 | 1,152,703,110 | Overlord | • | • | •• | • | |
| 19 | 1,129,535,772 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | • | •• | |||
| 20 | 1,106,298,215 | IDOLiSH7 | •• | • | • | • | |
| 21 | 1,032,515,220 | Girls und Panzer | •• | • | • | • | |
| 22 | 997,053,084 | The Promised Neverland | • | •• | |||
| 23 | 985,885,956 | The Greatest Showman | •• | • | |||
| 24 | 960,094,450 | Black Clover | • | • | • | •• | |
| 25 | 919,509,739 | Laid-Back Camp | •• | • | • | ||
| 26 | 885,447,375 | Golden Kamuy | • | •• | |||
| 27 | 840,799,752 | Otaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii | • | • | •• | ||
| 28 | 827,491,163 | Mumon: The Land of Stealth | •• | • | • | ||
| 29 | 818,855,319 | Pokémon | • | • | •• | • | |
| 30 | 815,416,025 | Sword Art Online | • | • | •• | • |
Source: Oricon
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