While we saw the overall month explored before with the general mix of graphic novels for the month of Febryary 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 four slots that go to other publishers.
What’s dominating here is Jujutsi Kaisen with seven 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 Vagabond show up as well as the continued strength of the first volume of Demon Slayer.
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 two slots with Berserk in its first deluxe volume while Yen Press delivers on Oshi no Ko.
Circana BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – February 2024 (2/4/23 – 3/2/24) | |||
Rank | Title | Author | Publisher |
1 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 14 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
2 | DRAGON BALL SUPER VOL. 20 | AKIRA TORIYAMA | VIZ MEDIA |
3 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
4 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 13 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
5 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 21 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
6 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 12 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
7 | [OSHI NO KO] VOL. 5 | AKA AKASAKA | YEN PRESS |
8 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 20 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
9 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
10 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 17 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
11 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 18 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
12 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 16 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
13 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 19 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
14 | VAGABOND VOL. 1 (VIZBIG EDITION) | TAKEHIKO INOUE | VIZ MEDIA |
15 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 2 HC | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
16 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 1 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
17 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 3 HC | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
18 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA |
19 | KAIJU NO. 8 VOL. 9 | NAOYA MATSUMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
20 | ONE PIECE VOL. 104 | EIICHIRO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
Source: Circana |