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Manga With Biggest 1st Printings from Kodansha, Shogakukan, Shueisha: 2023-2024
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The May issue of The Tsukuru Shuppan's Tsukuru magazine published a chart on Saturday listing the top 15 manga volumes for three major publishers — Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha — in the last 12 months based on first printings. The chart reflects the first print runs from volumes released between April 2023 through March 2024.
Kodansha
| Rank | Title | Volume Number | Copies Printed |
| 1 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime | 23 | 505,000 |
| 2 | BLUELOCK | 24 | 450,000 |
| 3 | Space Brothers | 43 | 252,000 |
| 4 | Tokyo Revengers: Baji Keisuke Kara no Tegami | 3 | 220,000 |
| 5 | BLUELOCK -Episode Nagi- | 3 | 210,000 |
| 6 | What Did You Eat Yesterday? | 21 | 195,000 |
| 7 | The Fable: The Second Contact | 7 | 182,000 |
| 8 | The Heroic Legend of Arslan | 19 | 166,000 |
| 9 | In the Clear Moonlit Dusk | 7 | 165,000 |
| 10 | Grand Blue | 21 | 155,000 |
| 10 | Ace of Diamond Act II | 34 | 155,000 |
| 12 | Blue Period | 14 | 145,000 |
| 13 | Saint Young Men | 21 | 138,000 |
| 14 | Giant Killing | 62 | 124,000 |
| 15 | MF Ghost | 17 | 122,000 |
Shogakukan
| Rank | Title | Volume Number | Copies Printed |
| 1 | Detective Conan | 103 | 630,000 |
| 2 | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End | 12 | 600,000 |
| 3 | Don't Call It Mystery | 13 | 450,000 |
| 4 | Black Lagoon | 13 | 250,000 |
| 5 | Aoashi | 32 | 240,000 |
| 6 | Mix | 21 | 215,000 |
| 7 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: Maomao no Kōkyū Nazotoki Techō | 18 | 178,000 |
| 8 | Blue Giant Momentum | 1 | 145,000 |
| 9 | Blue Giant Explorer | 9 | 140,000 |
| 10 | Doraemon Plus | 7 | 120,000 |
| 10 | Major 2nd | 26 | 120,000 |
| 10 | Call of the Night | 16 | 120,000 |
| 10 | Firefly Wedding | 3 | 120,000 |
| 14 | Kūbo Ibuki Great Game | 10 | 115,000 |
| 15 | Komi Can't Communicate | 29 | 110,000 |
Shueisha
| Rank | Title | Volume Number | Copies Printed |
| 1 | One Piece | 108 | 3.2 million |
| 2 | Jujutsu Kaisen | 23 | 1.75 million |
| 3 | SPY x FAMILY | 11 | 1.55 million |
| 4 | Kingdom | 70 | 950,000 |
| 5 | My Hero Academia | 38 | 815,000 |
| 6 | Chainsaw Man | 14 | 800,000 |
| 7 | Kaiju No. 8 | 10 | 600,000 |
| 8 | Oshi no Ko | 13 | 500,000 |
| 9 | One-Punch Man | 28 | 480,000 |
| 10 | World Trigger | 26 | 440,000 |
| 11 | The JOJOLands | 2 | 350,000 |
| 12 | Dragon Ball Super | 21 | 295,000 |
| 13 | Rurouni Kenshin: Hokkaido Arc | 9 | 215,000 |
| 14 | Honey Lemon Soda | 24 | 210,000 |
| 14 | Uma Musume: Cinderella Gray | 11 | 210,000 |
The magazine releases this list yearly. Attack on Titan, One Piece, and Detective Conan or Silver Spoon have regularly topped the list in the last decade.
Source: Tsukuru May issue
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