While we saw the overall month explored before with the general mix of graphic novels for the month of August 2021, ICv2 has now broken out the manga to its own category to explore and see how things went down. While the world of manga struggles with getting reprints out there for older volumes, especially for smaller series, this month also shows a rare change in that Viz dominates but there are five slots rather than the usual one or two that go to other publishers.
What we do get beyond that is fairly familiar. Viz Media takes up fifteen of the twenty slots and a lot of it are the familiar and evergreen titles. Yen Press continues to find success in Toilet-Bound Hanako as the first volume is comes in at seventh place this time around, the highest-ranked non-Viz title. Kodansha Comics has two titles with Attack on Titan still showing strength for its first volume while Wotakoi holds on as well. And Dark Horse comics slides in with two volumes of Berserk in its deluxe form.
| NPD BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – August 2021 (8/1/21 – 8/28/21) | |||
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher |
| 1 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 11 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 2 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 23 | GOTOUGE, KOYOHARU | VIZ MEDIA |
| 3 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 6 | FUJIMOTO, TATSUKI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 4 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 28 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 5 | SENSOR HC | JUNJI ITO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 6 | JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: PART 5–GOLDEN WIND VOL. 1 | HIROHIKO ARAKI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 7 | TOILET-BOUND HANAKO-KUN VOL. 1 | AIDAIRO | YEN PRESS |
| 8 | HAIKYU!! VOL. 45 | HARUICHI FURUDATE | VIZ MEDIA |
| 9 | THE PROMISED NEVERLAND VOL. 20 | KAIU SHIRAI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 10 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 11 | ATTACK ON TITAN VOL. 1 | HAJIME ISAYAMA | KODANSHA COMICS |
| 12 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 13 | TOMIE: COMPLETE DLX. ED. HC | JUNJI ITO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 14 | UZUMAKI (3-IN-1 DLX. ED.) HC | JUNJI ITO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 15 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 2 HC | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE COMICS |
| 16 | KOMI CAN’T COMMUNICATE, VOL. 14 | TOMOHITO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
| 17 | MY HERO ACADEMIA, VOL. 27 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 18 | WOTAKOI: LOVE IS HARD FOR OTAKU VOL. 1 | FUJITA | KODANSHA COMICS |
| 19 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 HC | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE COMICS |
| 20 | ONE PIECE VOL. 1 (OMNIBUS ED.) | EIICHIRO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
| Source: The NPD Group/BookScan | |||
