SAO is the first light novel series that dominated the ranking.
Oricon, a data compiling company specializing in providing data for the Japanese music/book industry, has announced the best-selling book rankings for the first half of 2019, which were compiled between November 19, 2018 and May 19, 2019.
Without any surprises, Eiichiro Oda’s internationally popular series One Piece took the first place in the manga sales ranking for 11 consecutive years since 2009 by still selling a huge 5,015,325 copies during the six months, while Kaiu Shirai (story) and Posuka Demizu (art)’s The Promised Neverland jumped up to second from last year’s eighth with 4,180,039 copies. sales ranking including all genres.