This text incorporates spoilers from the Demon Slayer manga.
2025 was a completely huge 12 months for all of the followers of Demon Slayer, as its newest anime film, Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort Half 1, was formally launched. This film prompted huge repercussions within the anime group each in Japan and internationally, and it continues to take action even now. Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is on monitor to turn into the best field workplace hit in Japan’s historical past, and even internationally, the film seems to be like it’s going to proceed to blow each different competitor away.
Whereas Demon Slayer’s new anime film is already breaking all data, one factor that followers did not anticipate was for it to beat One Piece in manga gross sales over the previous few weeks. Regardless of One Piece getting a brand new quantity round 2 months in the past, Demon Slayer’s backlog gross sales have overtaken Japan.
Demon Slayer Manga Has Surpassed One Piece On Oricon Charts
Infinity Fort Film Has Induced Large Backlog Gross sales
- One Piece Quantity 112 Dropped In July 2025
- Demon Slayer’s Final Quantity Dropped in 2020
In the latest Oricon Charts, it has now formally been confirmed that Demon Slayer has crushed each different competitor, and that additionally contains One Piece. Demon Slayer is continuing to sell at a blistering speed, and far of that’s right down to the Infinity Fort film adaptation. The principle objective of an anime is to spice up the gross sales of the manga, and that is why Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort is as profitable as it’s proper now. Followers have been completely blown away by the unbelievable success achieved by Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort, and it’ll proceed to take action over the following few weeks as properly.
For the sake of comparability, the latest Oricon gross sales chart, which covers gross sales of manga from 18 August to 24 August exhibits that the top-selling manga in Japan is none other than Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, with whole gross sales of 119,151 copies offered. In the meantime, One Piece lags behind by quite a bit, and has managed to promote 29,698 copies in the identical time interval. After all, that is affected by a number of issues, comparable to quantity launch. One Piece’s final quantity dropped in July 2025, and it’s regular to anticipate gross sales to drop in two months.
Demon Slayer’s Gross sales Will Proceed To Spike For A Few Months
One Piece Quantity 113 Comes Out In November
Proper now, Demon Slayer is at the peak of its popularity. Infinity Fort has propelled it to new heights and there are two extra motion pictures to return, which some would argue are even greater. Demon Slayer will, undoubtedly, get even greater within the coming years. The sequence is projected to beat Naruto within the total manga gross sales chart.
That mentioned, beating One Piece is inconceivable. Demon Slayer is nowhere close to it in that regard, and even in yearly manga gross sales, it will not be capable to compete as One Piece Quantity 113 is ready to drop in November 2025. That, mixed with the earlier two volumes, ensures that One Piece will compete with Jujutsu Kaisen to take the crown for essentially the most offered manga in 2025. Nonetheless, beating One Piece for a good portion of the 12 months is a feat nonetheless.
Demon Slayer: Infinity Fort Half 1 had already been launched in some nations, whereas some others will get in in September. Followers who do not need to await the films to drop can test the manga out on Manga Plus. As for One Piece, the manga continues to be ongoing and can drop its 1159th chapter later this week.
