The folks at ICv2 have put together the NPD BookScan data for the month of April 2020 to see what was moving and grooving in the manga market, which includes not just bookstores but a lot of online distribution as well. Nut surprisingly, My Hero Academia is continuing to dominate as it takes up nine slots out of the top twenty. On the plus side, the series is drawing in people to manga and keeping them there so hopefully they’re trying other things. It also shows that a crossover property can come out of nowhere.
The other title doing really well is a one-off with Uzumaki, which ICv2 notes is starting to act like the evergreen title Watchmen on the superhero side in charting very, very, regularly.
This month has a number of new volumes for ongoing that chart such as One Piece and Tokyo Ghoul while the first volume of Beastars also charts for Viz. Kodansha Comics manages to claim one slot with the latest Attack on Titan.
NPD BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – April 2020 (4/5/20 – 5/2/20) | ||||
Rank | Title | Author | Publisher | |
1 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
2 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
3 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 22 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
4 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 23 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
5 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
6 | ONE PIECE VOL. 93 | EIICHIRO ODA | VIZ MEDIA | |
7 | KOMI CAN’T COMMUNICATE VOL. 6 | TOMOHITO ODA | VIZ MEDIA | |
8 | BEASTARS VOL. 1 | PARU ITAGAKI | VIZ MEDIA | |
9 | ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 30 | HAJIME ISAYAMA | KODANSHA COMICS | |
10 | UZUMAKI HC | JUNJI ITO | VIZ MEDIA | |
11 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA | |
12 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
13 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 21 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
14 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 5 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
15 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 2 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA | |
16 | TOKYO GHOUL: RE VOL. 16 | SUI ISHIDA | VIZ MEDIA | |
17 | PERSONA 5 VOL. 2 | HISATO MURASAKI | VIZ MEDIA | |
18 | BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS VOL. 8 | UKYO KODACHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
19 | BEASTARS VOL. 2 | PARU ITAGAKI | VIZ MEDIA | |
20 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 6 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA | |
Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |