What You Need to Know:
- Konosuba or Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! is a currently airing anime that follows Kazuma Saitou when is life is uprooted and taken to another world full of goddesses and other unique creatures. It started airing in Jaunary and you can read more about it here.
- Kadokawa, the company currently managing all things Konosuba revealed that currently Konosuba is the #1 selling Light novel in this quarter. You can see that 's dominating in the light novel sales charts here.
- However that's not what is amazing. Since the anime was announced, the light novel sales have almost tripled. That's right, TRIPLED!! As of May last year, 8 volumes had been released and it had about 400,000 copies sold in total with the first novel selling about 5000 copies. Now, it has reached the 11th Volume and has over 1,500,000 total sales with the first novel selling over 136,000 copies!
Source: Hachima Kiko
Reactions Around the Web
Konosuba is a great story that really delivers on it's comedy!
This makes sense. It's really good.
I still haven't bought it lol.
I bought it♪
Osomatsu-san has only sold 70000 copies and it a big hit while this has over 1,000,000 in sales... why
[balloon_speech align="left" text="That last commenter is right! I need a Konosuba Drama, CD's, Movie, and at least three more seasons! Aqua is WAIFU!" image="bee-surprised2"]
[balloon_speech align="right" text="That is a lot in sales. If they made a live action, I'd sure like to play the part of Darkness." image="honey-thinking"]
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