eBook Store BookWalker Global Reveals Most Popular Manga and Light Novels of 2022
From wondrous fantasy worlds to scandalous school settings, it’s been another imaginative year for diving into all manner of manga and light novels, which are more accessible than ever thanks to a wide variety of international storefronts and services.
One of the most popular storefronts, BookWalker, revealed their most popular books of the year for a fifth straight year—defined as the most downloaded from November 1st, 2021 PT to October 31st, 2022 PT on the Global Store—to give us an idea of where fans have been transported throughout 2022, as listed below:
1. Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, vol. 14
2. So I’m a Spider, So What?, vol. 13
3. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, vol. 12
4. Ascendance of a Bookworm, Part 4, vol. 4
5. Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs, vol. 4
6. Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, vol. 9
7. My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World, vol. 1
8. Overlord, vol. 14
9. Please Put Them On, Takamine-san, vol. 2
10. Classroom of the Elite, vol. 1
11. Disciple of the Lich: Or How I Was Cursed by the Gods and Dropped Into the Abyss!, vol. 2
12. How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, vol. 15
13. Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World! TRPG
14. Der Werwolf: The Annals of Veight, vol. 1
15. Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World, vol. 1
16. I’ll Never Send a Selfie Again!, vol. 1
17. Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, vol. 3
18. The Eminence in Shadow, vol. 4
19. The World’s Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat, vol. 4
20. Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest, vol. 12
21. 86–EIGHTY-SIX, vol. 9
22. In the Land of Leadale, vol. 1
23. To Save the World, Can You Wake Up the Morning After with a Demi-Human?, vol. 4
24. Survival in Another World with My Mistress!, vol. 1
25. Reincarnated as a Sword, vol. 10
26. Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship!, vol. 2
27. Hell Mode, vol. 2
28. Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra: World Conquest Starts with the Civilization of Ruin, vol. 2
29. This Is Screwed Up, but I Was Reincarnated as a GIRL in Another World!, vol. 1
30. I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire!, vol. 2
31. You Are My Princess (audiobook), vol. 1
32. Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers, vol. 1
33. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Royal Academy Stories – First Year
34. The Executioner and Her Way of Life, vol. 1
35. Konosuba: God’s Blessing on This Wonderful World!, vol. 16
36. Classroom of the Elite: Year 2, vol. 1
37. Her Majesty’s Swarm, vol. 4
38. Orc Eroica, vol. 1
39. Black Summoner, vol 7
40. The Great Cleric, vol. 5
41. Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade, vol. 1
42. Love After World Domination, vol. 1
43. Double Your Pleasure – A Twin Yuri Anthology
44. Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, vol. 15
45. Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles, vol. 17
46. Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire ♀, vol. 3
47. The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time, vol. 1
48. Magical Explorer, vol. 1
49. Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling, vol. 3
50. The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, vol. 1
You can full view the full breakdown, including by light novels and manga, on the Bookwalker Global website here.
Source: BookWalker Website
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