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    So is there way to tell what currently popular in Japan and America with digital sales?

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      JRPG Nation last edited by JRPG Nation

      To be more clear, I mean not the most popular but stuff that is successful. For example is horror light novels popular? Is space opera popular or dead?

      Here some example of stuff in this vein.

      Blue Gender.
      Battle Angel Alita.
      Torture princess.
      VANDREAD.
      Historical accurate light novels? Is that even thing?
      S W A T squad? Or like saving private Ryan?

      I would also like to know what the popularity is like for different genres compare to America or the west. Who are the top Autors and what the genre difference is between them. Basically I asking for info dump on the industry and it people. I trying to learn more about this hobby that I love.

      Sorry about the grammar. I never been good at it. When I write I tend to write how I think or speak. Which I'm aware that it is awkward to read.

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        Elijah203223 Premium Member @JRPG Nation last edited by

        @JRPG-Nation bookwalker has its ranking system on how many units are sold in Japan. I am unsure if it is on the global store

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          saidahgilbert last edited by

          Check out bestseller lists. I think there are a few magazines or newspapers or whatever you call them, that publish lists like that. I think one is called Oricon? Anyway, you will see titles based on their popularity, I guess you would just have to look up what genres those titles belong to.

          There may be reports on publishing trends in terms of genre popularity but you might have to check out news sites that deal with such information in Japanese if you want specific information on Japanese publishing trends.

          Though, now that I think of it, there may be such information in English already but you'll have to look for news sites that deal with Japanese cultural media and search the backlog. An example would be Anime News Network.

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            Physixt 0 last edited by

            I use https://erzat.blog/japan-light-novel-sales-ranking-2023/ whish shows week by week sales of light novels in Japan.

            Not sure about America etc though

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              LurkingMcLurk Member @Elijah203223 last edited by LurkingMcLurk

              @Elijah203223 said in So is there way to tell what currently popular in Japan and America with digital sales?:

              @JRPG-Nation bookwalker has its ranking system on how many units are sold in Japan. I am unsure if it is on the global store

              Bookwalker Japan 2023: https://bookwalker.jp/ex/feature/year_ranking/genre-lanove.html
              Bookwalker Global 2022: https://global.bookwalker.jp/ex/feature/year-ranking/light-novel.html
              NSFW Bookwalker Taiwan 2022 NSFW: https://cp.bookwalker.com.tw/event/2022/20221127_bestseller/

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                Elijah203223 Premium Member @LurkingMcLurk last edited by

                @LurkingMcLurk thanks I never buy from global store so I didn't know that it had ranking system. all my English digital book buying is on Google play

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                  haimin xu.l0vyihs last edited by

                  You can check the sales volume in Amazon JP

                  https://ainovel.com

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