So what’s the highest selling Manga title and what’s its monthly sales rate? Bc the sales numbers I’ve seen bandied about are insanely low based on the population and popularity.
Also it sounds like their distribution system is just another form of Marvel capeshit gatekeeping, forcing you to purchase ancillary titles for forced exposure to other properties. Or are these literal reprints that the fans don’t need to purchase?
Not trolling, just curious if both the manga and comics sales trajectories are similar.
Well to put it into perspective
Weekly Shonen Jump's lowest sales point since the 1970's (it started publication in 1968 although the first western publication was 2002) was 2021, where it bottomed out at 1,371,818 copies per week between July and September of that year. Jump's sales peak was in 1995 with 6.53 million copies per week. However there really isn't much of a comparison with western comics because the publishing format of
Weekly Shonen Jump is so far removed from western comics.
Jump is a weekly anthology magazine which publishes a collection of various manga strips every week. These weekly strips are called chapters. A chapter of manga is usually between 9 and 30 pages depending on the mangaka (the writer and artist who is typically either a single person or two person partnership, or a
very small team, think less than six people). These chapters are published weekly in various different magazines like
Jump until they either fail to perform to a satisfactory standards in the
Jump popularity polls or they are ended by the author. These chapters are often collated into standalone books called collected volumes which are just an uninterrupted collection of the weekly chapters usually with a bonus strip or two along with some small side stories, author's notes, and bonus art for extra content. These collected volumes are often sold as standalone books. The reason why you can't really compare the two is because most manga is picked up by weekly manga magazines and published along side a dozen or so other mangas every week in one place where you could as a reader buy the single magazine and then read everything in it whether you bought the magazine for that specific manga or not.
As for individual manga the highest selling manga of all time is probably
One Piece, which is part of
Weekly Shonen Jump and has been since 1997, it has over 100 collected volumes and is one of if not the most valuable animated properties on the planet.
Naruto and
Bleach are both also
Weekly Shonen Jump titles that have since wrapped up,
Dragonball was in
Weekly Shonen Jump and so was
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Pretty much every popular action and comedy anime series from the past twenty or thirty years had it's start as a
Weekly Shonen Jump manga.
As for the specific sales numbers there's
this wikipedia article but it can be difficult to find concrete numbers for either industry. Asking around in something like the Comicsgate communities would probably be the best place to get actual sales numbers for western comics and there's always some weeb with a business degree willing to pour over manga sales figures on Reddit or 4chan if you ask nicely.
TL;DR: It's almost impossible to directly compare the two but western comics cannot hope to compete for sheer numbers.
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