Meanwhile, the best-selling light novel volume was the fourth volume of Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online: Progressive, that sold 284,686 copies, and the second-selling book was the 17th volume of the author’s Sword Art Online series with 261,951 copies.
In total, the author sold 866,575 bunko copies during the period, ranking seventh in the bunko author ranking.
The comedy fantasy series didn’t rank even in the top 10 last year, sold lower than 227,000 copies during the same period.