Kingdom Volume 80 Tops Oricon's August 2026 Comic Ranking
Kingdom's latest volume leads a monthly chart that also shows strong cumulative performance for ongoing series like The Apothecary Diaries and Hunter X Hunter.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Oricon's monthly comic ranking for August 2026, tracking sales from August 3 to 30, places Kingdom's 80th volume at #1 with 365,379 copies. Blue Lock's 40th volume and The Apothecary Diaries' 17th volume follow. The top 20 list includes titles from Shueisha, Kodansha, Square Enix, and others.
Oricon released its monthly comic ranking for August 2026, covering estimated print sales at Japanese retail outlets from August 3 to 30. Yasuhisa Hara's Kingdom leads with its 80th volume, which shipped on August 19 and sold 365,379 copies. The chart reflects the month's top-selling compiled volumes across publishers, with cumulative totals showing sustained demand for several long-running series.
- Kingdom 80: Rank 1, 365,379 monthly sales, cumulative 365,379
- Blue Lock 40: Rank 2, 127,399 monthly sales
- The Apothecary Diaries 17: Rank 3, 109,244 monthly sales, cumulative 364,152
- Sakamoto Days 28: Rank 4, 108,273 monthly sales
- Black Clover 38: Rank 5, 104,187 monthly sales
- Black Lagoon 14: Rank 6, 101,918 monthly sales
- Haimiya is Scary Cute 3: Rank 7, 74,713 monthly sales
- One Piece 115: Rank 8, 68,312 monthly sales, cumulative 1,088,734
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun 18 Special Edition: Rank 9, 63,477 monthly sales
- Made in Abyss 15: Rank 10, 62,355 monthly sales
- Terra Formars 24: Rank 11, 56,089 monthly sales
- Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" 22: Rank 12, 55,475 monthly sales, cumulative 57,397
- Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun 18: Rank 13, 51,634 monthly sales
- Chiikawa 8: Rank 14, 48,108 monthly sales, cumulative 304,472
- Akane-banashi 23: Rank 15, 47,691 monthly sales
- Someone Hertz 4: Rank 16, 46,477 monthly sales
- The Elusive Samurai 26: Rank 17, 45,066 monthly sales
- Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon 23: Rank 18, 42,352 monthly sales
- Hunter X Hunter 39: Rank 19, 42,027 monthly sales, cumulative 703,852
- I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince 24: Rank 20, 40,642 monthly sales
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Anime News Network News Kingdom Manga Tops Oricon's Monthly Comic Ranking for August 2026