The Apothecary Diaries, the manga that already sells better than My Hero Academia and Chainsaw Man

“Apothecary’s Journals“It’s a job for which a few months ago an anime has been announced which will release this same 2023. The hype was truly through the roof with the aforementioned confirmation, but is this work really that famous? Well apparently in the last few weeks it has only gone up, to the point that in Japan, it now outsells established hits like “Chainsaw Man” and “My Hero Academia”.

The Apothecary Diaries manga begins to appear in Japan

Then I leave you with an image that he shared @Josu_ke in which we find the covers that sold the most during the month of March 2023:

And on the sales results I want comment a few things What seems important to me:

• The data you illustrated @Josu_ke show that The Apothecary Diaries increased its monthly sales by 130% compared to last February. That is to say, from month to month it has doubled its results, and this precisely coincides with the announcement that the franchise will have an anime.
• It is also very important to take into account that in reality, The Apothecary Diaries is a series of light novels that later began to be adapted into manga.. That is to say, manga isn’t even the primary medium and even so, it peaks very noticeably.
• In this regard, I also want to say that there are many works that contain both light novels and manga, but for now I tell you that Most of the time, light novel mangas tend to have little success, to the point of being canceled or just forgotten.. That The Apothecary Diaries records this data is truly unusual and impressive.