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The Jujutsu Kaisen manga continues to promote like hotcakes.
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As 2022 rounds out, a number of gross sales trackers announce the final obtainable info earlier than the 12 months ends. Oricon, the Japanese firm that tracks manga gross sales all through the 12 months, has launched the info for the last week of 2022 it is going to decide to recording. It seems that Jujutsu Kaisen continues to promote like hotcakes.
Between the dates of Dec. 19 to Dec. 25, Jujutsu Kaisen offered a staggering 1,148,984 copies. A big quantity of these gross sales had been seemingly from the Japanese launch of quantity 21, which was launched at the starting of the month. It is due to Twitter person @WSJ_manga that these Oricon numbers are simply obtainable.
These numbers are additionally extraordinary contemplating that, from December 2021 to the finish of November 2022, Jujutsu Kaisen offered 12,282,260 copies. This implies that in just one week, the sequence offered 10% of the gross sales it noticed over nearly a whole 12 months.
Jujutsu Kaisen doesn’t appear to be it’s anyplace near slowing down, sales-wise. Though, mangaka Gege Akutami did reveal at Jump Festa 2023 that the finish of the manga might be solely a 12 months or so away.
Sales for markets outdoors of Japan aren’t as available, however the Japanese launch of the sequence is three volumes forward of the English launch, as the 18th quantity was launched on Dec. 20.
This was a large 12 months for each medium you’ll find Jujutsu Kaisen, not solely books. The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie climbed to the seventh highest-grossing anime movie this 12 months after a December 2021 launch in Japan after which March 2022 in all places else. It has since unseated Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You by two million.
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