Japan Reveals Official 2025 High 10 Mild Novel Rankings, And This 2026 Anime is Destroying The Competitors

It appears as if one popular light novel series is enjoying a bit more success than its contemporaries. Hyuganatsu’s The Apothecary Diaries is having an excellent yr, with the second season of the anime wanting prefer it actually helped increase gross sales.

From November 2024 to November 2025, the collection offered 1,060,890 copies. That is an unimaginable feat, and while you have a look at how the remainder of the preferred mild novels carried out over the yr, it is not even shut.

The Apothecary Diaries is The Greatest-Promoting Mild Novel of The 12 months

Whereas the remainder of the highest 10 collection did not carry out poorly, it is robust to take a look at how effectively The Apothecary Diaries did all year long and not be impressed with how much it’s managed to pull away from the competition.

Sequence	Copies Bought
The Apothecary Diaries	1,060,890
Classroom of the Elite 2	190,737
Classroom of the Elite 3	187,089
Too Many Dropping Heroines!	166,413
Is It Unsuitable to Attempt to Choose Up Women in a Dungeon?	166,413
That Time I Acquired Reincarnated as a Slime	158,151
The Angel Subsequent Door Spoils Me Rotten	110,785
Demon Slayer Novels	95,850
Who Killed the Hero?	94,947
There’s No Freaking Method I will be Your Lover! Until…	89,784

Different widespread mild novel collection like Classroom of the Elite, Too Many Dropping Heroines, DanMachi, and That Time I Acquired Reincarnated as a Slime all carried out effectively, however none of them acquired near the success that The Apothecary Diaries is at present having. Regardless of being represented twice with each the 12 months 2 and 12 months 3 collection, Classroom of the Elite did not even promote half as many copies as The Apothecary Diaries did.

The Apothecary Diaries is not even a comparatively newer collection in comparison with a number of the different mild novels within the prime 10. So while you have a look at the unimaginable success the collection has been having, the anime’s popularity is likely a big part of why the sunshine novel has been doing so effectively. With the second season having concluded this yr and being widespread amongst anime followers, increasingly persons are changing into considering Maomao’s adventures.

The Anime is Having Constructive Results on the Franchise

At the moment, The Apothecary Diaries has greater than 45 million copies in circulation. The franchise had 38 million copies in circulation as of September 2024. With the second season of the anime airing from January to July of this yr, the renewed curiosity within the collection seems to be to have elevated the quantity of copies in print by round 7 million.

Season 1 of The Apothecary Diaries aired from October 2023 to March 2024, with Toho Animation Studio and OLM spearheading the mission. Season 2 was launched the next yr, and now followers eagerly await the discharge of season 3, which should be coming out sometime in October 2026.

The success of the Apothecary Diaries anime adaptation has positively helped out the sunshine novel and manga gross sales. The collection is one of the most anticipated anime of 2026, and regardless that it is set to air in direction of the tail finish of subsequent yr, it does not appear to be the joy surrounding the collection goes to die down anytime quickly.

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