Various comment forums in Japan shared the news that the manga of Gege Akutami, Jujutsu Kaisen, has accumulated 16,511,040 copies sold in 2021 (only in the current three months). That amount exceeds the 15,933,801 copies that the manga sells from Hajime isayama, Shingeki no Kyojin ((attack on Titan), a personal record he set in 2013.

In short, Jujutsu Kaisen has already surpassed Shingeki no Kyojin in cumulative annual sales in just three months of 2021, but is still behind 37,996,373 units sold by One piece in 2011 and well behind the 82,345,447 units sold by Kimetsu no yaiba in 2020.

Akutami started publishing the manga in the magazine Weekly shonen jump from the publisher Shueisha The publisher published its fourteenth compilation volume on January 4th, followed by the fifteenth on March 4th in Japan. The piece inspires an anime adaptation that is currently airing and confirmed with a total of 24 episodes to be produced by the studios. MAPPA Headed by Seong-Hu Park ((Garo: Vanishing Line, the god of high school) and scripts from Hiroshi seko ((Ajin, Dorohedoro, Inuyashiki).

Jujutsu Kaisen Synopsis

Yuuji Itadori is a student with exceptional physical abilities. Every day he routinely goes to the hospital to visit his sick grandfather and decides to join the institute’s occult club so as not to go into the water … However, one fine day the seal of the talisman that was hidden in his institute it breaks, and monsters begin to appear. Faced with this turning point, Itadori decides to enter the institute to save his companions. What will fate bring you

Source: Yaraon!

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