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.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – March 2021 (2/28/21 - 4/3/21) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 1 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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2 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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4 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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5 |
ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 1 |
HAJIME ISAYAMA |
KODANSHA COMICS |
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6 |
TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1 |
AIDAIRO |
YEN PRESS |
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7 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 26 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 1 |
KAIU SHIRAI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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10 |
HAIKYU!! VOL. 1 |
HARUICHI FURUDATE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 2 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 4 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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13 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 3 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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14 |
SOLO LEVELING VOL. 1 |
CHUGONG |
YEN PRESS |
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15 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 3 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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17 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 24 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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18 |
THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 2 |
KAIU SHIRAI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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19 |
TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 2 |
AIDAIRO |
YEN PRESS |
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20 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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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."