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Manga sales top 600 billion yen in 2020 for first time on record : The Asahi Shimbun


A fan buys the final volume of the comic “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba” at a bookstore in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward on Dec. 4. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Combined sales of print and digital manga surged beyond 600 billion yen ($5.5 billion) in 2020 for the first time since records began in 1978, Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (Research institute of publication science) said.
The 23-percent year-on-year increase to 612.6 billion yen surpassed the previous sales peak of 586.4 billion yen set in 1995, when Weekly Shonen Jump and other manga anthologies were at the pinnacle of their popularity, it said.
The institute attributed the growth to stay-at-home lifestyles during the COVID-19 pandemic and the huge success of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,” which also ran in Shonen Jump. ....

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