Oricon News — the Japanese company that tracks music, manga and book sales — has published its list of the year’s top-selling manga in Japan for 2025. Oricon compiles weekly and monthly tallies on its official Japanese site and those figures are aggregated into annual rankings (their reporting period runs roughly November to November). The results were shared publicly by @WSJ_manga on X.
Oricon’s Top 10 Best-Selling Manga in Japan (2025)
- One Piece — 4,211,363 copies sold
- Jujutsu Kaisen — 3,921,875 copies sold
- Dan Da Dan — 3,517,870 copies sold
- Blue Lock — 3,012,745 copies sold
- Kingdom — 2,497,085 copies sold
- Blue Box — 2,385,295 copies sold
- Sakamoto Days — 2,344,740 copies sold
- The Apothecary Diaries — 2,252,310 copies sold
- My Hero Academia — 2,097,599 copies sold
- The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity — 2,038,691 copies sold
Some entries are familiar mainstays — One Piece and Kingdom remain cultural fixtures — but a couple of notable surprises stand out. Both My Hero Academia and Jujutsu Kaisen cracked the top 10 despite having only a single volume released during the reported period (each series released its most recent volume in December 2024). Another trend is the stronger showing from romance-leaning titles than in previous years.
The Fragrant Flower, a rom-com by Saka Mikami that focuses on the mismatched pairing of Rintaro Tsumugi and Kaoruko Waguri, surged in popularity after an anime adaptation premiered on Netflix in July 2025 — an exposure boost that likely helped drive sales. Similarly, Kouji Miura’s Blue Box, which blends sports and romantic drama, benefited from an anime that debuted in late 2024.
Meanwhile, Dan Da Dan (Yukinobu Tatsu’s supernatural action-comedy) pairs alien- and ghost-fighting set pieces with a persistent romantic subplot between Momo and Okarun. That romantic tension, combined with a well-received anime adaptation in 2024, appears to have amplified interest and pushed the series into the year’s bestseller list. (See Polygon’s coverage for more context on the series and its adaptations.)
Comparing year-to-year totals highlights how volatile annual rankings can be. In 2024, Jujutsu Kaisen led sales with roughly seven million copies, a figure well above this year’s top seller. That gap may reflect a broader shift toward digital consumption — a logical move given rising printed-material costs influenced by factors like US tariffs — or simply the natural ebb and flow after the pandemic-driven sales spike. The industry’s publishers have indicated the market is stabilizing rather than collapsing.
Overall, these numbers underscore a clear pattern: anime adaptations remain one of the most powerful drivers of manga discovery. When a series receives animated exposure, readership and physical sales often follow, reinforcing the close commercial relationship between the two media.
Sources: Oricon rankings via Oricon’s official site; coverage shared by @WSJ_manga. Additional context: Polygon, ScreenRant, Anime News Network.
Source: Polygon
