After steadily moving up the chart (and releasing more volumes), My Hero Academia was the top manga property, with a heat we haven’t seen since the early days of Naruto.

Last week’s Anime Expo was the venue for a number of major announcements from American manga publishers.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during March 2018.

The biggest new title was from Instagram star Mari Andrew.

Sales on the #2 graphic novel in March, from Instagram star Mari Andrew, approached sales on the latest The Walking Dead volume.

There are few items of serious interest for geek viewers coming out on disc this week, though the fourth film in the Insidious horror film franchise should be of interest to horror film fans, and the live-action adaptation of the Tokyo Ghoul manga should also please fans of the macabre, while the anime series My Hero Academia: Season 2 continues the construction of an interesting fantasy world in which super-powered individuals are common.

Here's a look at some trends we noticed in 2017—and a few pointers for the year to come.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during January 2018.

The latest Saga volume was the #1 adult graphic novel in January 2018, based on NPD BookScan data provided to ICv2.

This reporting on the actual sales reported by NPD BookScan on the Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels helps see the relative sales on the bestsellers, and is also instructive when compared to the sales for other graphic novel subcategories in the book channel, or to sales in the comic store channel.