CATDOLL: Top 10 Japanese Light Novel Sales Oricon Rankings in the First Half of 2016

Recently, Japan's Oricon released the light novel sales rankings for the first half of 2016. The top three are "KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!", "Sword Art Online" and "The Irregular at Magic High School". The highly acclaimed "Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World" only ranked 10th! This has something to do with the fact that it was only aired in April. Generally speaking, this result is already good. So let's take a look at the rest of the works on the list.

No. 1: Blessings on this wonderful world! (757,412 copies)

The biggest winner in the first half of 2016 should be "A Beautiful World". After the animation was broadcast, it received a great response from the otaku circles both in Japan and abroad. It should be the dark horse of recent animation. The work, whether it is the BD or the original work, has achieved amazing sales effects. 750,000 copies is really a very amazing number...

No. 2 Sword Art Online (489,374 copies)

Although it is no longer number one, in terms of the long-term popularity of light novels, Sword Art Online is definitely one of the powerful overlords in recent years. It has been at the top of every light novel list in recent years. Even in the first half of 2016, it was still number two. If the derivative works of number four are added in, the number of copies is close to 800,000. In addition, the theatrical version will be released in 2017, and it should have an even more amazing performance by then.

No. 3 The Irregular at Magic High School (371,880 copies)

Unlike "A Wonderful World", "Magic Evil" already had a considerable readership before the animation was aired. In addition, although the animation also increased its popularity, the effect was not as strong as the previous ones (of course, the effect is still good). As the story has recently entered an exciting stage, the novel has also performed well in sales.

No. 4 Sword Art Online Progressive (321,535 copies)

No. 5 Monogatari series (308,471 copies)

I think there is no need to say more about Nisio Isin's old brand on the list (the "story" that never ends...)

No. 6: No Game No Life (304721)

No.7 Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (302013)

No. 8 Forgotten Detective Series (Okitegami Kyoko's Memo 297459)

No. 9 Confession Pre-Practice (280586)

No. 10 RE: Life in a Different World from Zero (263357)

We can see that many works have been adapted into related media (animation, TV series). The one work that I feel pity about is "Ash and Fantasy". In fact, the animation was quite successful, but the topic of "A Beautiful World" at the same time was too loud, which caused its brilliance to be somewhat overshadowed, and the effect was not so obvious.