Manga’s domination of book channel adult graphic novel sales continued in March, with a near sweep of the top 20 adult graphic novels in the book channel, based on NPD BookScan data for March 2021 (2/28/21-4/3/21) provided to ICv2.

Manga titles hold 19 of the top 20 slots in March, with the 20th held by a manga-adjacent title: Solo Leveling, a Korean property that originated as a web novel and was adapted into a webtoon (Yen has rights to both).

The first volume of Chainsaw Man, the red-hot VIZ Media series, took the top slot for the first time this month, a rare win by a manga without a streaming anime to support it.

Five of the top six sellers are first volumes, continuing the Covid trend of new manga readers starting the most popular series in big numbers.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – March 2021 (2/28/21 - 4/3/21)

Rank

Title

Author

Publisher

1

CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 1

TATSUKI FUJIMOTO

VIZ MEDIA

2

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

3

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

4

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1

KOYOHARU GOTOUGE

VIZ MEDIA

5

ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 1

HAJIME ISAYAMA

KODANSHA COMICS

6

TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1

AIDAIRO

YEN PRESS

7

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 26

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

8

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

9

THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 1

KAIU SHIRAI

VIZ MEDIA

10

HAIKYU!! VOL. 1

HARUICHI FURUDATE

VIZ MEDIA

11

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 2

KOYOHARU GOTOUGE

VIZ MEDIA

12

SPY X FAMILY VOL. 4

TATSUYA ENDO

VIZ MEDIA

13

DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 3

KOYOHARU GOTOUGE

VIZ MEDIA

14

SOLO LEVELING VOL. 1

CHUGONG

YEN PRESS

15

JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1

GEGE AKUTAMI

VIZ MEDIA

16

CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 3

TATSUKI FUJIMOTO

VIZ MEDIA

17

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 24

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

18

THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 2

KAIU SHIRAI

VIZ MEDIA

19

TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 2

AIDAIRO

YEN PRESS

20

MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4

KOHEI HORIKOSHI

VIZ MEDIA

Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of March 2021 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
March 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
March 2021 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:
March 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
March 2021 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."