Best 2014 japan manga sales

Besides watching anime, one of my other hobbies I spend quite an extensive time on is reading manga. I started doing that since primary school (with the likes of Conan and Jojo) and still keep up with quite a few series down the years. I still prefer the paperback version over reading any scanlation online personally. Recently, I came across oricon’s annual list of manga sales in Japan by series and volumes, so I just can’t help but try to put together some analysis on this to see what I might find. Maybe it will be some other cools series that I did not know before for me to get addicted on! Unfortunately, I can only find raw data that goes back to 2008 so I can’t analyze anything older. Anyway, 6 years of data is still relatively decent and I can still draw some substantial conclusion from it.

Manga publications sales volume Japan 2017, by type

The sales volume of manga magazines and manga books in Japan amounted to 582 million copies in 2017. The number steadily decreased from around 1.89 billion copies sold in 1995.

70% of manga sales in Japan are now digital

Digital manga now account for 30 percent of all publication sales in Japan, and the category has become the publishing industry’s second-largest market segment.