Year end bonus:
As
previously, here's a list of series ordered by their rankings at the time I made the releases posts, ordered by the highest ranking volume. Each series is only listed once, but the ranking number is that volume's rank out of all volumes released this year.
As bookdepository's rankings were used, there are no ebooks in the ranking. This is also why this can be done this week, rather than waiting for the J-Novel-club e-book coming out on 30th.
There are 147 volumes in total, from 67 different series. That's 44 more volumes, from 19 more series, than last year, although last year was missing a few.
1 Overlord 7: The Invaders of the Large Tomb
3 My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong As I Expected 5
4 Nekomonogatari (White)
6 KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! 6: Princess of the Six Flowers
7 No Game No Life 7
8 Goblin Slayer 5
11 The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria 2
12 Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? 12
13 The Saga of Tanya the Evil 2 Plus Ultra
14 Sword Art online 13: Alicization Dividing
15 re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World- 6
21 The Devil is a Part-Timer 10
22 I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 years and Maxed Out My Level 1
26 Re:Zero Ex 2: The Love Song of the Sword Devil
27 Sword Art Online Progressive 5
28 Wolf & Parchment: New Theory Spice and Wolf 2
31 Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody 4
32 Psycome 6: A Murderer and the Deadly Love Affair
33 The Rising of the Shield Hero 11
34 Accel World 14: Archangel of Savage Light
35 The Irregular at Magic High School 8: Reminiscence Arc
37 Spice and Wolf 20: Spring Log III
39 Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Familia Chronicle: Episode Lyu 1
42 Toradora 1
43 NieR:Automata: Long Story Short
44 A Sister’s All You Need 1
45 Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash level. 5 Hear Me Out, and Try Not to Laugh
47 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 3
49 The Asterisk War 06: The Triumphal Homecoming Battle
51 Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers 5
52 Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side: Sword Oratoria 5
63 Baccano! 7: 1933 the Slash -Bloody to Fair-
65 Log Horizon 10: Homesteading the Noosphere
67 So I’m a Spider, So What? 3
69 WorldEnd: What do you do at the End of the World? Are you busy? Will you save us? 2
70 Katanagatari 1
71 A Certain Magical Index 15
76 How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 1
77 Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist
78 Strike the Blood 8: The Tyrant and the Fool
79 Goblin Slayer Year One 1
83 Defeating the Demon Lord’s a Cinch (If You’ve Got a Ringer) 1
86 Monster Girl Doctor 2
88 Magical Girl Raising Project 4
90 Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest 1
91 Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! 1
101 Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online 2: 2nd Squad Jam Start
102 Clockwork Planet 1
105 Durarara!! 9
107 The Hero and His Elf Bride Open a Pizza Parlor in Another World
108 Legend of the Galactic Heroes Volume 7: Tempest
109 Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen 4
110 Kagerou Daze 8 -Summer Time Reload-
111 Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon 2
114 The Isolator 4: The Stinger
120 Boogiepop Omnibus vols 1-3
123 Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks? 1
124 Napping Princess: The Story of Unknown Me
128 The Reprise of the Spear Hero 01
129 Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile
133 I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
135 The Ancient Magus Bride: The Golden Yarn
137 Mirai
138 Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?
139 Occultic;Nine 3
140 True Tenchi Muyo! vol.1: Jurai
143 Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days: The Novel
As before, bear in mind:
These are ordered by RANKING, not sales. The same rank will be inevitably be a different sales figure at different times of year.
New series will always do better than ones that have been going for a long time, which is why I included the volume number/name in the list.
This being done from bookdepository's rankings mean that no other retailer's sales are relevant. This is thus a relatively small sample size.
