Hunter x Hunter Tops Oricon Series Chart, Edges Past One Piece

Japan’s latest Oricon weekly manga tallies for July 13–19 crown Hunter x Hunter the top series on the chart. Combining new-release and backlog demand, Yoshihiro Togashi’s long-running Shueisha hit moved an estimated 96,314 copies across all volumes—enough to leapfrog both rivals and end a three-week stretch in One Piece’s shadow after the two franchises dropped major books on the same day in early July.

On the pure volume list the picture is different. Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece Vol. 115 still led the week with about 69,615 copies (pushing its cumulative past 938,000), while Hiromu Arakawa’s Daemons of the Shadow Realm Vol. 13 surged into second with roughly 66,274. Hunter x Hunter Vol. 39 finished third on the volume chart (~43,398 weekly; ~605,865 total) even as the series-wide sum put Togashi’s title alone at No. 1.

That series ranking also highlights a strong week for Square Enix and Kodansha catalog: Daemons of the Shadow Realm took second overall (~86,932 series copies), with Shangri-La Frontier, Blue Lock, Mitsuru Adachi’s MIX, Blue Box, and One-Punch Man filling out the rest of the top ten. For Jump readers, the headline is clear—after the dual July 3 launches, backlog-fueled Hunter x Hunter demand has finally overtaken the Straw Hat flagship on the all-volumes metric, even if Oda’s newest tankōbon remains the single hottest book on shelves.

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