The best-selling light novel series was Reki Kawahara’s Sword Art Online with 1,173,096 copies, its anime feature film Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale also became an international hit this year.
Oricon, a data compiling company specializing in providing data for the Japanese music/book industry, today announced the best-selling book annual rankings of 2017, which were compiled between December 5, 2016 and November 27, 2017.
It sold 6,622,781 copies this year, which was 78,700 more than 2016 when the manga ranked fourth.