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Chainsaw Man Ranks #1 on U.S. Monthly Bookscan December List

Chainsaw Man manga ranked at #1 on NPD BookScan's Top 20 adult graphic novels list for December.

This month's list featured 18 manga volumes, including:

• #1 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 1
• #2 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 2
• #3 — Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1
• #4 — SPY x FAMILY volume 1
• #5 —  Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 3
• #6 — Jujutsu Kaisen volume 18
• #7 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 4
• #8 — My Hero Academia volume 1
• #9 — Dragon Ball Super volume 17
• #11 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 5
• #12 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 2
• #14 —  Kentarō Miura's Berserk Hardcover volume 1
• #15 — Tatsuya Endō's SPY x FAMILY volume 2
• #16 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 9
• #17 — Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen 0 
• #18 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 6
• #19 — Blue Lock volume 1
• #20 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 10

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)