Jujutsu Kaisen Surpasses 55 Million Copies Sold

The print run totals for Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga have been revealed forward of the discharge of the collection’ seventeenth collected quantity, due out on Oct. 4, and the numbers present that the favored Weekly Shonen Soar collection continues to be a success.

In accordance with the official Jujutsu Kaisen Twitter account, the collection’ present 17-volume run has bodily printed and digitally bought greater than 55 million copies. These numbers embrace the upcoming vol. 17, which, when it releases its 2.5 million first printing copy run, will put Jujutsu Kaisen simply behind One Piece quantity 67 (4.05 million) and Demon Slayer‘s final quantity (3.95 million).

The Jujutsu Kaisen manga returned to Weekly Shonen Soar in August, after it was introduced earlier in the summertime that the collection would go on an indefinite hiatus as a consequence of issues surrounding the well being of its creator, Gege Akutami. The anime, in the meantime, is at the moment in between its first and second season, with the prequel film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 scheduled to launch on Dec. 24 in Japanese theaters.

Though the manga might be learn digitally, readers preferring to get their arms on bodily copies of older volumes have needed to be affected person, as the continued COVID-19 pandemic has triggered many publishers and retailers to expertise shortages of manga over this previous yr, with a number of volumes of Akutami’s manga being a few of the hardest to maintain in inventory.

Supply: Twitter by way of Crunchyroll