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Demon Slayer Ranks #1 on U.S. Monthly Bookscan January List

Koyoharu Gotouge and Ryoji Hirano's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Stories of Water and Flame manga ranked at #1 on NPD BookScan's Top 20 adult graphic novels list for January.

Manga took all 20 spots in this month's list:

• #2 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 1
• #3 — Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen 0
• #4 — Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen volume 1
• #5 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1
• #6 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 2
• #7 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 2
• #8 — Akira Toriyama and Toyotarō's Dragon Ball Super volume 15
• #9 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 4
• #10 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 3
• #11 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 3
• #12 — Tatsuya Endō's SPY x FAMILY volume 1
• #13 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 5
• #14 — Kōhei Horikoshi and Yoko Akiyama's My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions volume 2
• #15 — Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan volume 34
• #16 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 8
• #17 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 1
• #18 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 6
• #19 — Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen volume 13
• #20 — Iro Aida's Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun volume 12

NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market. The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; ICv2 removes those titles from the rankings.

Source: ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)