Anime continues its global takeover, and One Piece Manga Tops Oricon's Monthly Comic Ranking for July 2026 is the latest title making waves. Whether you follow the manga, the anime, or both, this news changes the picture in a big way.
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The 115th volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga ranked at #1 selling 1,020,422 copies. The volume shipped in Japan on July 3. The One Piece manga has surpassed 600 million copies published worldwide as of the arrival of the 114th volume on March 4.
The One Piece anime's Elbaph arc made its launch in Japan on April 5. Crunchyroll is streaming the arc, and will stream the English dub this fall. The 39th volume of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter X Hunter manga ranked at #2.
The latest volume, its first volume in 22 months, shipped in Japan on July 3. The manga resumed serialization on June 29. The 17th volume of Nekokurage's manga adaptation of Hyuganatsu's The Apothecary Diaries (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) light novels ranked at #3.
Nekokurage launched the manga in Square Enix's Monthly major Gangan magazine in May 2017. Square Enix Manga publishes the series in English. The top 20 compiled print volumes of manga or comics in Japan in July 2026, according to Oricon, were:.
Since 1967, it has been compiling data on record sales in Japan and publishing rankings; since 2008, it has also published the “ORICON Book Ranking” based on sales figures. The company holds a vast amount of data on the Japanese entertainment market. It operates “ORICON NEWS,” Japan's largest entertainment website, and runs “Japan Anime News” as its global version.
Whether this marks the beginning of something bigger or a standalone moment remains to be seen. What is clear is that the entertainment world is watching closely — and so are we. Follow TeraMovies for complete coverage.
