The number of issues sold is the most direct indicator of a manga’s success. Here is the list best-selling manga of all time.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba, written by Koyoharu Gotouge, is one of the most recent and brevity best-selling manga.
Slam Dunk, one of the most beloved sports-manga, was even praised by the Japan Basketball Association for assisting in promoting basketball among young people.
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka only had 25 volumes published over the course of its ten years, yet it is one of the most popular manga of all time, with around 176 million copies sold.
Osamu Akimoto’s humorous manga KochiKame: Tokyo Beat Cops has sold more than 156.5 million copies when it first appeared in 1976.
Since it was originally published, Fujiko F. Fujio’s children’s manga series Doraemon, which lasted between 1969 to 1996, has continually enjoyed astronomical popularity.
Gosho Aoyama created the Shonen manga Detective Conan, which is still being published today.
Around 260 million copies of the Dragon Ball manga by Akira Toriyama have been sold since the first volume was published in 1984.
One Piece is unquestionably the most popular manga of all time, having sold over 480 million copies.
The original manga for Naruto inspired a number of well-liked anime, manga, and light novel adaptations, spin-offs, and sequels, making it among the most well-known series.
Golgo 13, written by Takao Saito, is the only Seinen manga included in the top sales and is also the longest-running and oldest manga still being published.