Once again, for the third month in a row, the entire Top 20 is manga. This list is quite different from the past two months, though, when two titles dominated: Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and My Hero Academia. Yes, the most recent volume of My Hero Academia tops the list, and Demon Slayer is not far behind, but in between are new volumes of Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen, with Volume 5 of Spy x Family rounding out a quintet of June releases. Interestingly, there’s at least one additional volume of each of these series except Spy x Family in the top 20, so readers aren’t just picking up the new volumes, they’re diving into the series.
There’s an additional reason for the diversity of this list: As we reported, print manga is in short supply right now (see “The Great Manga Shortage of 2021”), and in fact, a quick look at online sources indicates that the first four volumes of Spy x Family are not available in print. Earlier volumes of some of the other series on this list are hard to find too, so readers may be sampling other series if they can’t find what they want. On the other hand, the first volumes of Death Note, Attack on Titan, The Promised Neverland, and Toilet-Bound Hanako-Kun all pop up on this list fairly frequently, so maybe that’s just business as usual. It’s worth noting that Junji Ito is back, with Uzumaki, after a three-month absence, the first time in a while that one of his books wasn’t on the top 20.
Also worth noting: Although most of the books on this list have anime tie-ins, two of the most popular don’t: Chainsaw Man and Spy x Family. Anime are in the works for both series, but they must be hitting a chord with readers to do so well without it.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – June 2021 (5/3/21 – 7/3/21) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 28 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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2 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 5 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 10 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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4 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 22 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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5 |
DEATH NOTE BLACK EDITION VOL. 1 |
TSUGUMI OHBA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 1 |
HAJIME ISAYAMA |
KODANSHA COMICS |
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7 |
SPY X FAMILY VOL. 5 |
TATSUYA ENDO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 3 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
UZUMAKI HC |
JUNJI ITO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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10 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 8 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 27 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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13 |
CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 3 |
TATSUKI FUJIMOTO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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14 |
THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 1 |
KAIU SHIRAI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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15 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 9 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1 |
AIDAIRO |
YEN PRESS |
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17 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 4 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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18 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 10 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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19 |
DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 13 |
KOYOHARU GOTOUGE |
VIZ MEDIA |
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20 |
JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 2 |
GEGE AKUTAMI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of June 2021 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
June 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
June 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:
June 2021 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
June 2021 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
June 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."