Chainsaw Man Tops USA’s List Of Best Selling Manga In February 2024
Dragon Ball Super, Solo Leveling and Berserk trail before Chainsaw Man in US’ best selling manga for February 2024.
ICv2, on Mar 11, 2023, revealed the United States’ Top 10 Adult Graphic Novels for February 2024, and it looks like Chainsaw Man Volume 14 ranks #1 in the list, followed by Dragon Ball Super Volume 20 and Solo Leveling Volume 8.
(Chainsaw Man Volume 14)
Chainsaw Man tops the list for the third month in a row, despite no anime currently airing. The hype for Dragon Ball Daima and the new volume release propelled Dragon Ball Super to enter the list at the second position. Although the highly anticipated Solo Leveling anime also debuted in January, the series already has a solid reputation, so volume 8 would have been there regardless of the anime.
However, the lack of a currently airing anime seems to be acting on Jujutsu Kaisen, pushing it down below. Jujutsu Kaisen volumes 1, 16-21 enter the list due to backlog sales.
Without further ado, here’s the list of the top 10 adult graphic novels made by Circana BookScan in the US for February 2024:
| Circana BookScan Top 20 Adult 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 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 8 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 4 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 HC | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
| 5 | TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE LAST RONIN HC | KEVIN EASTMAN | IDW PUBLISHING |
| 6 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 1 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 7 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 13 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 8 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 21 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 9 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 2 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 10 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 3 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 11 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 12 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 12 | [OSHI NO KO] VOL. 5 | AKA AKASAKA | YEN PRESS |
| 13 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 7 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 14 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 20 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 15 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 16 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 17 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 17 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 18 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 18 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 16 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 19 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 19 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 20 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 4 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
Following the merger of NPD Group and Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) in 2022, NPD BookScan changed its name to Circana Books in March.
Weekly point-of-sale data on print books is gathered by the company from more than 16,000 outlets, including chains, independent bookshops, mass merchandisers, e-tailers, and more.
About Chainsaw Man:
Chainsaw Man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Its first arc was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020; its second arc began serialization in Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ online magazine in July 2022. Its chapters have been collected in 16 tankōbon volumes as of December 2023.
Season 1 of the anime, produced by MAPPA, was broadcast from October to December 2022. An anime film, titled Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, has been announced.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Chainsaw Man as follows:
Denji is a young boy who works as a devil hunter with the “Chainsaw Devil” Pochita. One day, as he was living his miserable life trying to pay off the debt he inherited from his parents, he got betrayed and killed. As he was losing his consciousness, he made a deal with Pochita, and got resurrected as the “Chainsaw Man”: the owner of the Devil’s heart.
Source: ICv2 site
