As expected, Eiichiro Oda’s internationally popular series One Piece has maintained its No. 1 position for 11 consecutive years since 2008.
But its yearly sales of 8,113,317 copies is 3.38 million copies less than last year (mainly because one less volumes were released this year).
Oricon, a data compiling company specializing in providing data for the Japanese music/book industry, has announced the best-selling book annual rankings of 2018, which were compiled between November 20, 2017, and November 18, 2018.