At the end of 2012, as usual I give list of Top 10 Best Selling Manga in Japan. Like last year, Eiichiro Oda manga's One Piece still become the champion and the runner-up surprisingly Kuroko's Basketball can beat Naruto manga and throw Naruto to third position.
Here is the full list of Top 10 Best Selling Manga in Japan 2012 that cover sales November 21, 2011 to November 18, 2012.
- One Piece (Author: Eiichiro Oda ; Publisher: Shueisha) with total sales 23,464,866 copies.
- Kuroko's Basketball (Author: Tadatoshi Fujimaki ; Publisher: Shueisha) with total sales 8,070,446 copies.
- Naruto (Author: Masashi Kishimoto ; Publisher: Shueisha) with total sales 6,495,240 copies.
- Space Brothers / Uchū Kyōdai (Author: Chūya Koyama ; Publisher: Kodansha) with total sales 5,413,899 copies.
- Fairy Tail (Author: Hiro Mashima ; Publisher: Kodansha) with total sales 4,128,665 copies.
- Kimi ni Todoke (Author: Karuho Shiina ; Publisher: Shueisha) with total sales 4,039,715 copies.
- Silver Spoon (Author: Hiromu Arakawa ; Publisher: Shogakukan) with total sales 3,603,710 copies.
- Hunter X Hunter (Author: Yoshihiro Togashi ; Publisher: Shueisha) with total sales 3,439,839 copies.
- Magi (Author: Shinobu Ohtaka ; Publisher: Shogakukan) with total sales 3,437,182 copies.
- Bakuman (Story: Tsugumi Ohba ; Art: Takeshi Obata ; Publisher: Shueisha) with total sales 3,211,191 copies.
The "old" manga Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi is back to business with come to 8th position for this year. Kuroko's Basketball and Space Brothers manga is the rising star for 2012, it seems get impact from the anime adaptation release.
If you want to know the history of best selling manga in japan for past 3 years, you can visit 2011, 2010, 2009.
Source: Oricon via ANN
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