At the release of the second volume of Naoya Matsumoto’s Shonen Jump+ manga series Kaiju No. 8 in Japan today, the editor revealed on Twitter that the series has had a total physical print run of 1 million copies over the two volumes, and counting the volumes sold digitally, that number rises to 1.2 million copies printed and sold in less than a year since publishing began.
He also runs the YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.
A trailer for the second volume has been released in Japan.