April marks the fourth consecutive month that manga has completely filled the chart of the top 20 Adult graphic novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for April 2022 (4/3/22-4/30-22) provided to ICv2.
Nonetheless, the April chart looks quite different from the month before, with six volumes of Spy x Family in the top 20, compared to just one in March (see “March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult“). This is doubtless related to the fact that the Spy x Family anime started streaming, in Japanese and English, on April 9. With six of the seven available volumes on the chart, some other titles got elbowed out: Chainsaw Man and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba both dropped from five volumes in March to three each in April.
It has been exactly a year since the first all-manga Top 20 (see “April 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult“), and it’s instructive to take a look back at that one. The big title that month was Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, with a whopping nine volumes in the Top 20 (up from three the month before). Again, this coincided with a new anime, this time the theatrical film Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (see “Demon Slayer Wins the Weekend“).
Despite the fact that there is no Chainsaw Man anime (yet), Volume 10 of that series was the top seller in April 2022, followed by two more new releases, Volume 15 of Jujutsu Kaisen and Volume 7 of Spy x Family. Another couple of April titles appear further down the chart, Volume 2 of Kaiju No. 8 and Volume 13 of Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun. Volume 30 of My Hero Academia, which came out in March, stays on the chart for the second month, but only one other volume, Volume 1, makes the top 20.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – April 2022 (4/3/22 – 4/30/22) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 10 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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2 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 15 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 7 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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4 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 1 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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5 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 0 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
KAIJU NO. 8 VOL. 2 |
NAOYA MATSUMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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7 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 2 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA–STORIES OF WATER AND FLAME |
RYOJI HIRANO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 |
KENTARO MIURA |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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10 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 |
KOYHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 30 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 3 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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13 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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14 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 2 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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15 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 1 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 4 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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17 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 6 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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18 |
TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 13 |
AIDAIRO |
YEN PRESS |
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19 |
TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1 |
AIDAIRO |
YEN PRESS |
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20 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 4 |
KOYHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of April 2022 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
April 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
April 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
April 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
April 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
April 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
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
