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.

NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – March 2022 (2/27/22 – 4/2/22)
Rank	Title	Author	Publisher
1	MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 30	HORIKOSHI, KOHEI	VIZ MEDIA
2	DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 1	GOTOUGE, KOYOHARU	VIZ MEDIA
3	DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA--STORIES OF WATER AND FLAME	HIRANO, RYOJI	VIZ MEDIA
4	CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 1	TATSUKI FUJIMOTO	VIZ MEDIA
5	CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 2	TATSUKI FUJIMOTO	VIZ MEDIA
6	MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1	KOHEI HORIKOSHI	VIZ MEDIA
7	TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 0	AIDAIRO	YEN PRESS
8	DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 2	KOYOHARU GOTOUGE	VIZ MEDIA
9	JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 14	GEGE AKUTAMI	VIZ MEDIA
10	CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 3	TATSUKI FUJIMOTO	VIZ MEDIA
11	BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 HC	KENTARO MIURA	DARK HORSE COMICS
12	CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 4	TATSUKI FUJIMOTO	VIZ MEDIA
13	DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 12	KOYOHARU GOTOUGE	VIZ MEDIA
14	JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1	GEGE AKUTAMI	VIZ MEDIA
15	DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 3	KOYOHARU GOTOUGE	VIZ MEDIA
16	CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 9	TATSUKI FUJIMOTO	VIZ MEDIA
17	SPY X FAMILY VOL. 1	TATSUYA ENDO	VIZ MEDIA
18	JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 2	GEGE AKUTAMI	VIZ MEDIA
19	KAIJU NO. 8 VOL. 1	NAOYA MATSUMOTO	VIZ MEDIA
20	BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 10 HC	KENTARO MIURA	DARK HORSE COMICS
Source: The NPD Group/BookScan

For charts of March 2022 graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
March 2022 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
March 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:
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
March 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."