2024 was a extra profitable yr for each Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academy than ever earlier than, as each collection concluded this yr. Moreover, every collection launched an epilogue that correctly tied the story to the tipgiving the characters that followers have come to like in recent times the send-off they deserve.
These two shonen manga are among the many best-selling manga of 2024, however just one title can reign supreme, attaining the best gross sales. The query of which collection is the preferred, Jujutsu Kaisen or My Hero Academia, lastly has a solution, definitively ending the controversy.
My Hero Academy It was the best-selling WSJ manga in December 2024
My Hero Academy Overcome Jujutsu Kaisen for just below 3,000 volumes, making it the December 2024 winner
A put up from @WSJ_manga on X revealed the gross sales of the publication's hottest collection, specifically, in the course of the week of December 23 to 29, the final week of December 2024. Of the manga listed, together with titles corresponding to Blue Field, Kagurabachi, and Yozakura Household, Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academy had been one of the best sellers on the listing. Jujutsu Kaisen twenty ninth quantity offered 796,910 copies and Jujutsu Kaisen quantity 30 has offered 804,318 copies, however none of those volumes are the winners as of December 2024. That award goes to My Hero Academy as a substitute of, as a result of its forty second quantity offered a powerful 807,283 copies.
Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia gross sales had been fairly shut, however in the end, My Hero Academy bought barely larger numbers and might now name itself the best-selling manga of December 2024. Straight evaluating the ultimate volumes of each mangas, quantity 42 of My Hero Academy offered 2,965 extra copies than quantity 30 of Jujutsu Kaisen. These ultimate two volumes had been extremely wanted by followers of every collection, not solely as a result of they concluded the manga for good, however as a result of every of them additionally included an epilogue, increasing on the aftermath of necessary battles and revealing scenes of characters from the longer term. .
Each epilogues had been stuffed with thrilling revelations concerning the collection' greatest characters
From Deku's romance with Ochaco to the reveal of Nobara's household, these epilogues assist clarify the excessive gross sales
Jujutsu Kaisen epilogue, launched on December 25, 2024, contained a collection of thrilling surprises corresponding to the revelation of Nobara's mom and grandmother, extra backstory on Urame, the conclusion of Yuji Itadori's character arc, and even a light-hearted nod to Panda, a preferred character within the collection. My Hero Academia featured epilogue a reunion of Class 1-A college students eight years after combating Shigaraki and All For Oneand confirmed the heroes' new jobs and the way their lives had been after the warfare, in addition to hinting on the romance between Ochaco and Deku.
Though My Hero Academy offered greater than Jujutsu Kaisen in December it's tough to check the 2 mangas, as a result of though they're each shonen, followers take pleasure in them for various causes. Each collection have obtained grateful followers that the majority manga artists can solely dream of, and each Gege Akutami, writer of Jujutsu Kaisen, and Kohei Horikoshi, writer of My Hero Academy, expressed the best gratitude to the followers who've supported them in recent times. Akutami and Horikoshi are two of the largest skills within the business, and it's plain that his collection won't ever be forgotten.
Supply: @WSJ_manga on X