Not every second-place finish tells the same story. The latest Oricon weekly manga ranking has landed, and the headline numbers are hard to look away from: One Piece Vol. 114 has claimed the top spot with 612,629 copies sold, while Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Vol. 2 holds second place at 194,752 copies. Most coverage stops right there. The actual story runs deeper.
These two franchises are doing entirely different things with their numbers. One Piece is riding one of its best coordinated franchise pushes in years. JJK Modulo, meanwhile, is sustaining top two chart performance for weeks with a brand new protagonist that is not even human. Fans following the anime’s next chapter should note that Season 3 Cour 2 is not expected before January 2027, which makes the manga’s momentum even more significant right now. Both results deserve more than a simple win-or-loss reading.
How One Piece Vol. 114 Reached 612,000 Copies
CrunchyrollThe timing behind One Piece’s number is everything. Vol. 114, released on March 4, dives into the God Valley Incident, a piece of lore Eiichiro Oda first hinted at during the Marineford arc over a decade ago. Readers who have held that question for years drove an immediate, massive purchasing response. That kind of earned anticipation is rare in any medium.
The franchise also had momentum from another direction entirely. On March 10, Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation returned with its second season, Into the Grand Line, earning near-universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike. A landmark manga volume and a celebrated streaming release arriving in the same two-week window created a compounding effect that is nearly impossible to replicate.
Why JJK Modulo Holding Second Place for Weeks Is the Harder Achievement
Gege Akutami/Shueisha, JUJUTSU KAISEN ProjectHere is what makes JJK Modulo’s position genuinely impressive. The original series concluded in 2024. Modulo launched its sequel with the boldest creative choice possible: the lead character is Maru, an alien representative of the Simurian species who partners with Tsurugi and Yuka Okkotsu, grandchildren of Yuta Okkotsu and Marki Zenin. There has never been a top-charting shonen sequel built around a non-human protagonist. Readers are buying into completely unfamiliar storytelling territory, and the chart confirms they are showing up.
The timing of the serialization also played a role. Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo Chapter 25 concluded a major arc on March 8, which typically drives readers who followed the serialization to collect the physical volume. Sustained second-place performance after that kind of arc conclusion points to genuine reader investment rather than just launch week momentum. The recent conclusion of JJK Season 3 has likely kept franchise enthusiasm high alongside the ongoing serialization.
Rounding out the top five are One Punch Man Vol. 36 with 111,187 copies, Ichi the Witch Vol. 7 with 64,558, and Sakamoto Days Vol. 26 at 63,768.
Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo is proving that the franchise’s audience did not just follow the original story. They followed the creative team.
The broader manga market in 2026 is unusually competitive, with Kingdom, Frieren, and Sakamoto Days all pulling serious reader attention alongside these two giants.
Whatever arc Maru faces next, these early chart positions suggest the JJK universe has a very strong second act ahead of it.
