March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels

For the third month in a row, manga sweeps the chart of the top 20 Adult graphic novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for March 2022 (2/27/22-4/2/22) provided to ICv2. The sweep included five volumes of Chainsaw Man, five of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and three of Jujutsu Kaisen. It’s interesting to see three series consistently dominating the top 20 while the former 800-pound gorilla of manga, My Hero Academia, places only two volumes. The title still has some legs, though, as one of those two volumes, Volume 30, came out at the beginning of March, and it’s at the top of the chart.

Two volumes of Berserk are in the top 20, Volume 1 and the recently released Vol. 10, the first time the title has appeared in the Top 20 this year. The long-running manga by the late Kentaro Miura is a top seller for Dark Horse Comics (see “Dark Horse’s Top Property for the Past Three Years Was a Manga“).

The first volume of Spy x Family rounds out the Viz portion of the chart (17 out of 20 titles). This is the third month that first volume has made the chart; the anime is set to debut on Crunchyroll on April 9 (see “AnimeNYC: ‘Spy x Family’ Anime Comes to Crunchroll“).

Kaiju No. 8, a December release, charted in December and February and it’s back in March. The second volume was released on April 5, so we’ll be looking to see how it does. As usual, there’s a volume of Yen Press’s Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun on the chart but it’s not Volume 1 this time, it’s Volume 0, a March release.

For charts of March 2022 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels [COMING]
March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels [COMING]

For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales [COMING]
March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales [COMING]

NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more.  NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market.  The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we’ve removed those titles from the ranking above.

For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the “BookScan Top 20 GN Index.”

Source: ICV2