The 12th volume of of Shingeki no Kyojin is truly a hit of titanic proportions, outselling all manga this year save One Piece.
With 2.2 million copies of the recently released volume 12 sold, Attack on Titan crushed even the likes of Naruto and Kuroko no Basket, which managed only to pass the paltry one million mark this year.
Only One Piece managed more, with some of the latest tankobon managing to shift as much as 4 million copies.
Shingeki has gone from selling 40,000 copies at its start 3 years ago to over 2 million with its latest volume – some 50 times more.
Its huge grand total of 28 million volumes sold does however have some way to go before it catches up to Japan’s national manga One Piece – now at over 300 million.
Attack on Titan starting to join the overrated club of anime’s like Narutards, one Pshit…
Shingeki no Narutards
The difference is One Piece has been consistently strong in its writing, whereas AoT has been getting worse and worse in the recent chapters.
The AoT anime improves on the writing and the art and the terrible character designs that the manga had, but they’re going to have a hard time covering up the bad writing its fallen into recently.
Of course now everyone just loves it because its the cool thing, not because of any merit the series itself has.
WOW, that is bloody brilliant. IT was a great manga when I was reading it, got to catch up, again with it. But 40,000 to 2 million. That is A HUGE jump. Naruto is so weak sauce at the moment, and Bleach knows what it is. Whilst Naruto, seems to be kinda going a bit up and down. Hoping it ends soon. Shame, some of the early Naruto where great.
SO, THE STRAW HATS ARE NOW THE MOST WANTED BOUNTY IN JAPAN!!!