Shincho Bunko: Million-seller works by Hoshi Shinnichi to break the record

Shincho Bunko's "Buranko No Mukou De (Beyond the Swing)," authored by Hoshi Shinnichi, exceeded 1 million copies with its release of 22,000 reprints in mid-May. As a result, the total number of Shincho Bunko's million-seller books by Hoshi Shinnichi has amounted to nine titles, a record that exceeds the one set by Natsume Soseki by one title.

Amid the current trend of books going out of print due to the increasing output of new publications, works by Hoshi, for the most part, have not gone out of print and have been long sellers, seeing many reprints of them come out every year.

The number of books from Shincho Bunko authored by him that continue to remain in print to this day is 57. Their combined circulation exceeds 30,000,000 and most of his top ten works in terms of circulation figures were released in the '70s. Bokko-chan is at the top of this list with 2,140,000 copies in circulation. While ten years has passed since Hoshi's demise, this proves that his works continue to be read across generations. Incidentally, the nonfiction book titled, " Hoshi Shinnichi, the Man who Spun 1001 Stories," which is written by Mr. Saisho Hazuki and released by Shinchosha, is in its sixth impression, enjoying a sales of 26,000 copies.


*Some of the book titles are tentative translations.
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