Shueisha reported on Monday that as of the discharge of the 18th quantity of Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen manga on December 25, the manga may have 60 million copies in circulation (together with print and digital copies, in addition to copies not but offered). The manga’s circulation has jumped 710% within the 15 months for the reason that anime premiered in October 2020.

The manga had:

• 8.5 million in early October 2020
• 10 million on October 29, 2020
• 15 million on December 16, 2020
• 20 million on January 13
• 25 million on January 26
• 30 million on February 9
• 35 million on March 4
• 40 million on March 31
• 45 million on April 21
• 50 million on June 4
• 55 million on September 27

Akutami launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Bounce journal in March 2018.

Viz Media printed the manga’s first three chapters in English concurrently with Japan as a part of its Bounce Begin initiative. When Viz then switched to its new Shonen Bounce mannequin in December 2018, the corporate started publishing new chapters of the manga digitally. Shueisha can also be publishing the manga on its MANGA Plus service.

The Jujutsu Kaisen anime premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes. Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film), a brand new anime movie for the franchise, will open on December 24. The movie is predicated on Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu Excessive College) manga prequel story.

Sources: Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Net, Jujutsu Kaisen franchise’s Twitter account