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Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series - December 2018
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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 |
| Detective Conan | 230 million (worldwide) | 95 (main manga series only) | Cinema Today (December 5) |
| Kingdom | 38 million | 52 | Manga's Twitter account (December 28) |
| Chihayafuru | 23 million | 40 | PR Times (December 25) |
| My Hero Academia (manga franchise only) | 20 million | 31 (21 main manga volumes, 10 spinoff manga volumes) | Weekly Shonen Jump 4th-5th issue (December 22) |
| Attack on Titan | 78 million | 27 (27th volume shipped on December 7) | Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web (December 3) |
| Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler manga franchise | 4.7 million | 27 (10 volumes for main manga, 17 spinoff manga volumes) | Oricon News (December 11) |
| Real Account | 3 million | 21 (22nd volume out on January 9) | Shizumu Watanabe's Twitter account (December 4) |
| One-Punch Man | 16.5 million | 18 | Yūsuke Murata's Twitter account (December 3) |
| Seitokai Yakuindomo | 4 million | 16 | Weekly Shōnen Magazine's Twitter account (December 5) |
| Golden Kamuy | 8.7 million | 16 | 16th manga volume (December 19) |
| Bakuon!! | 2.1 million | 14 (12 main volumes, 2 spinoff volumes) | Amazon listing of spinoff manga (December 20) |
| Kūbo Ibuki | 4 million | 11 (11th volume out on December 27) | Big Comic issue 24 (December 10) |
| Waiting for Spring | 4 million (including digital sales) | 11 | 11th manga volume (December 13) |
| Kaguya-sama: Love is War | 3.5 million | 11 | Young Jump 2019 2nd issue (December 13) |
| Umimachi Diary | 3.6 million | 9 | Oricon News (December 10) |
| Asobi Asobase | 1.1 million | 7 (7th volume out on December 26) | Young Animal 24th issue (December 14) |
| Jingai-san no Yome | 600,000 (includes digital sales) | 7 | 7th manga volume (December 25) |
| Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. | 2.5 million | 5 | Hon no Hikidashi's Twitter account (December 7) |
| Oshi ga Budōkan Ittekuretara Shinu | 300,000 | 5 | Manga's 5th volume (December 13) |
| Ueno-san wa Bukiyō | 300,000 | 5 | Young Animal 2019 1st issue (December 28) |
| Fūto Tantei | 1.05 million | 4 (5th volume out on February 28) | Shogakukan's listing of manga's 5th volume (accessed on December 31) |
| MF Ghost | 1 million | 4 (4th volume out on January 4) | Manga's Twitter account (December 10) |
| Jujutsu Kaisen | 600,000 | 4 (including volume 0) | Manga's Twitter account (December 6) |
| Orient | 320,000 | 3 | Weekly Shōnen Magazine's 4th-5th combined issue (December 26) |
| Heavenly Delusion (Tengoku Dai Makyō) | 130,000 | 1 | Afternoon February issue (December 25) |
| World’s End Harem: Fantasia | 100,000 | 1 | Ultra Jump's Twitter account (December 11) |
| Novel Title | # of Copies in Print | # of Volumes in Print | Source |
| The Rising of the Shield Hero (light novels and manga) | 3.3 million | 38 (20 main novels, 3 spinoff novels, 12 manga volumes, 3 manga spinoff volumes) | PR Times (December 21) |
| Gate - Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri (light novels and manga) | 4.66 million | 31 (12 novel volumes, 14 main manga volumes, 5 spinoff manga volumes across 3 series) | 14th volume of main manga series (December 1) |
| Sword Art Online (light novels only) | 22 million (worldwide) | 27 (21 main volumes, 6 volumes for Progressive) | Hon no Hikidashi (December 11) |
| Otherwordly Izakaya "Nobu"/Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" (light novels and manga) | 2 million | 17 (5 novel volumes, 12 manga volumes across four series) | Young Ace January issue (December 4) |
| A Sister's All You Need. (light novels only) | 2.5 million (worldwide) | 11 | 11th light novel volume (December 18) |
| Crest of the Stars (light novels and manga) | 2 million | 10 (3 novel volumes, 7 manga volumes across two series) | 6th manga volume of new series (December 11) |
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