The January rankings are starting to come in with what sold the most through NPD BookScan, which includes a lot of retailers and shops, giving us a good look what’s happening with the sales numbers. Manga takes up seventeen of the top twenty spots, showing what a sales powerhouse it is right now. Of the non-manga books, we get Watchmen in its latest edition while other manga-manga books include as They Called Us Enemy and Strange Planet.
with the manga, it’s all Viz Medi and My Hero Academia showing off with ten volumes, half the list. Beyond that, we get some game material and more Demon Slayer among a couple of others.
NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – January 2020 (1/5/20 – 2/1/20) | ||||
Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | |
1 | STRANGE PLANET HC | NATHAN W. PYLE | MORROW GIFT | |
2 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
3 | WATCHMEN (2019 EDITION) | ALAN MOORE | DC COMICS | |
4 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
5 | THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 6 | AKIRA HIMEKAWA | VIZ MEDIA | |
6 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 10 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA | |
7 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 22 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
8 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
9 | THEY CALLED US ENEMY | GEORGE TAKEI | TOP SHELF PROD. | |
10 | UZUMAKI HC | JUNJI ITO | VIZ MEDIA | |
11 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
12 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA | |
13 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 20 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
14 | NO LONGER HUMAN HC | JUNJI ITO | VIZ MEDIA | |
15 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 21 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
16 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 5 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
17 | PERSONA 5 VOL. 1 | HISATO MURASAKI | VIZ MEDIA | |
18 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 19 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
19 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 18 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
20 | THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 13 | KAIU SHIRAI | VIZ MEDIA | |
Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |