Volume 1 of "Naruto" is the best-selling manga in 2020, alros that the series has ended since 2016 -

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Despite the health crisis, bookstores have succeeded in limiting breakage in 2020, and comics are not for nothing.

Indeed, on the eve of the Angoulême Festival awards ceremony (it will be in June for the physical event), GfK Market Intelligence data from the comic book market were published on Thursday by press release and reveal a (new) record year with 53 million copies purchased in France (+ 9%) for generated sales of € 591 million (+ 6%).

The manga plays a central role there with 42% of sales.

Almost every second comic sold is a manga

Japanese comics is the most dynamic segment with growth of 18%, thanks to essential series such as

One Piece

, the first manga series in terms of volume sold, and

Naruto

, whose volumes 1 and 2 are in the first two places of the Top 10. We also finds the phenomenon

Demon Slayer

,

Dragon Ball Super

or

My Hero Academia

among the best-selling titles.

Young readers

For the rest (we are talking about comics outside manga is to say), the best sales concern, in order,

Lucky Luke

,

The Arab of the future

,

Blake and Mortimer

,

Asterix

,

The Sisters

and

Mortelle Adèle

, with no less of four volumes in the Top 10. It should be noted that "65% of comic book purchases are intended for people under 30, a proportion up +6 points compared to 2019", comments Camille Oriot, senior consultant for GfK Books.

If the confinements had a negative impact on the number of new products (-12%), the lifting of the restrictions had a boost effect on sales of new products (+ 9% in May, + 19% in December), and especially on so-called fund comics with + 47% and + 49% over the same periods.

In general, there has been a refocus on safe values ​​and bestsellers throughout 2020.

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Culture

And the best-selling manga of 2020 is… “Naruto”!

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