While we saw the overall month explored before with the general mix of graphic novels for the month of January 2024, ICv2 has now broken out the manga into 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 we do get three slots that go to other publishers.
We’ve seen the natural cooling down of the Spy x Family property and only one volume is in the top twenty at the moment. What’s dominating here is Jujutsi Kaisen with nine volumes on the list, making it take up almost half of the chart. The top of the list is Chainsaw Man and we see Kaiju no 8 continuing to do well too.
Most of what we get otherwise are familiar popular titles but it’s good to see something like Komi Can’t Communicate and Dandandan showing up as well.
When it comes to non-Viz Media books, this is another weak month for anything that’s not Viz Media as Dark Horse Comics gets the single slot with Berserk in its first deluxe volume.
Circana BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – January 2024 (12/31/23 – 2/3/24) | |||
Rank | Title | Author | Publisher |
1 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 13 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
2 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 21 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
3 | KAIJU NO. 8 VOL. 9 | NAOYA MATSUMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
4 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
5 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 20 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
6 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 12 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
7 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 17 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
8 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 18 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
9 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 16 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
10 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
11 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 19 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
12 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 36 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
13 | ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 27 | ONE | VIZ MEDIA |
14 | KOMI CAN’T COMMUNICATE VOL. 28 | TOMOHITO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
15 | ONE PIECE VOL. 104 | EIICHIRO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
16 | DANDADAN VOL. 6 | YUKINOBU TATSU | VIZ MEDIA |
17 | SPY X FAMILY VOL. 10 | TATSUYA ENDO | VIZ MEDIA |
18 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 4 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
19 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 5 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
20 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU ACADEMY VOL. 1 | NATSUKI HOKAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
Source: Circana |