On Friday (3/11), Elex Media Komputindo posted a list of the publisher’s ten best-selling comics for October 2023. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 15 takes first place, followed by Blue Lock volume 11 and Spy X Family volume 10 in second and third place.

Here is the full list of Elex Media’s best-selling comics in October 2023:

  1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 15 (Released 11 October 2023)
  2. Blue Lock volume 11 (Released 11 October 2023)
  3. Spy X Family volume 10 (Released 25 October 2023)
  4. Giant Killing volume 60 (Released 4 October 2023)
  5. Detektif Conan Premium volume 16 (Released 4 October 2023)
  6. ZOM 100: Bucket List of the Dead volume 2 (Released 4 October 2023)
  7. Happiness volume 1 (Released 4 October 2023)
  8. Jojo`s Bizarre Adventure volume 7 (Released 18 October 2023)
  9. Edens Zero volume 16 (Released 18 October 2023)
  10. Attack On Titan Bind Up Edition volume 1 (Released 25 October 2023)

Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotoge​Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba tells the story of Tanjirou Kamado, the eldest son of a poor family who lived during the Taisho era.​ One day, his whole family were slaughtered by an unknown demon when he left home to sell charcoal. The only family member who survived is her little sister Nezuko. Unfortunately, Nezuko also begins to transform into a demon. Now Tanjirou has to undergo a dangerous journey to find a cure for his half-demon sister.​

Written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Yusuke Nomura, the story of Blue Lock began with Japan’s elimination from the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The elimination prompted the Japan Football Union to start a program for high-school football players in preparation for the 2022 World Cup. The Union initiates a prison-like training institution called Blue Lock, which isolates 300 young forwards and puts them through rigorous training to create “the world’s greatest egoistic striker”. Blue Lock began its serialization in Kodansha’s Weekly Shounen Magazine in August 2018.

Illustrated by Tatsuya EndoSpy x Family tells the story of a spy who works under the codename Twilight. His latest mission is to approach the extremely cautious politician Donovan Desmond by infiltrating his son’s school. To do that, Twilight has to put together a (phoney) family with an orphan girl named Anya as a (phoney) daughter and an ordinary civil servant named Yor as a (phoney) wife. The manga has been serialized on Shueisha’s Shounen Jump+ website and app since March 2019 with the English version released simultaneously on Shueisha’s Manga Plus website and app.

Elex Media Komputindo is a comics publisher under the Kompas-Gramedia Group. The publisher releases licensed foreign comics, including manga, and also Indonesian comics. Since 2005, Elex Media also published comics that were intended for adult audiences under the new imprint called Level Comics.

The Indonesian Anime Times.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.