JoJolion Ranks 45th in Da Vinci’s “Book of the Year” Manga Ranking

The eighth part of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, JoJolion, has ranked 45th in the Da Vinci magazine‘s ranking of top 50 manga for 2021. Their 21st annual list was unveiled in the January 2022 issue of the magazine, released on December 6, 2021.

About Da Vinci Magazine

Da Vinci is a monthly Japanese news magazine from Kadokawa Media Factory, which was first published in 1994. Although it’s a literary magazine, it actively features information about manga and light novels. Each issue focuses on specific novelists or manga artists. Hirohiko Araki also had interviews in the magazines. One was published in the April 1999 issue while another was in the August 2005 issue, featuring an interview between Araki, CLAMP, Masashi Kishimoto, and Hiroyuki Takei. Both have not been translated to English yet.

Da Vinci’s Top 50 Manga of 2021

1. Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Volumes 1-23)
2. Yumi Tamura’s Do not say mystery (Volumes 1-9)
3. Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece (Volumes 1-101)
4. Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen (Volumes 1-17)
5. Satoru Noda’s Golden Kamuy (Volumes 1-27)
6. Yama Wayama’s Onna no Sono no Hoshi (Volumes 1-2)
7. Fumi Yoshinaga’s What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Volumes 1-19)
8. Hajime Isayama’s Attack on Titan (Volumes 1-34)
9. Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers (Volumes 1-24)
10. Gosho Aoyama’s Detective Conan (Volumes 1-100)
11. Tatsuya Endō’s SPY×FAMILY (Volumes 1-8)
12. Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 (Volumes 1-5)
13. Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari’s Oshi no Ko (Volumes 1-6)
14. Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ōoku: The Inner Chambers (Volumes 1-19)
15. Yasuhisa Hara’s Kingdom (Volumes 1-63)
16. Tarō Yabe’s Boku no Otō-san
17. Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe’s Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Volumes 1-6)
18. Haruichi Furudate’s Haikyu!! (Volumes 1-45)
19. Itsuki Nanao, Natsu Hyūga, Touko Shino, and Nekokurage’s The Apothecary Diaries (Volumes 1-9)
20. Yuki Suetsugu’s Chihayafuru (Volumes 1-45)
21. Akimi Yoshida’s Utagawa Hyakkei (Volume 1)
22. Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba&! (Volumes 1-15)
23. Miko Yasu’s Police in a Pod (Volumes 1-19)
24. Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period. (Volumes 1-11)
25. Afro’s Laid-Back Camp Δ (Volumes 1-12)
26. Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland (Volumes 1-20)
27. Fuse, Mitz Vah, and Taiki Kawakami’s That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Volumes 1-18)
28. Chūya Koyama’s Space Brothers (Volumes 1-40)
29. Tatsuki Fujimoto’s “Look Back”
30. TSURUMAIKADA’s Medalist (Volumes 1-4)
31. Kōji Miura’s Blue Box (Volumes 1-2)
32. Yuki Midorikawa’s Natsume’s Book of Friends (Volumes 1-27)
33. Kaoru Mori’s A Bride’s Story (Volumes 1-13)
34. Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia (Volumes 1-32)
35. Kazuhiro Fujita’s Sou-Bou-Tei Kowasu Beshi (Volumes 1-25)
36. Moto Hagio’s Poe no Ichizoku: Himitsu no Hanazono (Volume 1-2)
37. Uoto’s Chi.: Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite (Volumes 1-5)
38. Mika Yamamori’s In the Clear Moonlit Dusk (Volumes 1-3)
39. Ryōsuke Takeuchi and Hikaru Miyoshi’s Moriarty the Patriot (Volumes 1-16)
40. Mayu Murata’s Honey Lemon Soda (Volumes 1-18)
41. Kumiko Saiki’s Kageki Shoujo!! (Volumes 1-11)
42. Osamu Nishi’s Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun (Volumes 1-24)
43. Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man (Volumes 1-11)
44. Daisuke Ashihara’s World Trigger (Volumes 1-24)
45. Hirohiko Araki’s JoJolion (Volumes 1-27)
46. Misaki Takamatsu’s Skip and Loafer (Volumes 1-6)
47. Wataru Hinekure and Aruko’s My Love Mix-Up! (Volumes 1-7)
48. Aki Irie’s Go with the Clouds, North by Northwest (Volumes 1-5)
49. Hilnama’s I’m a Terminal Cancer Patient, but I’m Fine.
50. Mitsu Izumi’s Magus of the Library (Volumes 1-5)

Source: Da Vinci January 2022 Issue, AnimeNewsNetwork

JoJolion’s Previous Rankings

JoJolion did not rank in their top 50 list in 2020 or 2019.

• 2018: #22 with volumes 1 to 19.
• 2015: #21 with volumes 1 to 10.
• 2014: #32 with volumes 1 to 8.

About JoJolion

JoJolion was written by Hirohiko Araki and serialized monthly in Ultra Jump from May 19, 2011 to August 19, 2021.

The story begins in 2011 and follows Josuke Higashikata, a young man afflicted by retrograde amnesia, in his search to uncover his identity in Morioh Town, a coastal Japanese town affected by the Tohoku earthquake. However, his digging pulls him and his adoptive family into the unfinished business between his previous life and an impending inhuman threat. JoJolion won the Grand Prize for manga at the 2013 Japan Media Arts Festival.