Demon Slayer, Chainsaw Man Lead Circana BookScan’s Top 20 Manga Sold In The US In 2023
Spy X Family, Jujutsu Kaisen and Berserk trail before Demon Slayer and Chainsaw Man in US’ manga sales for 2023.
ICv2, on Feb 1, 2023, revealed the United States’ Top 20 Manga for the Year 2023, and it looks like Demon Slayer Volume 1 rank #1 in the list, followed by Chainsaw Man Volume 1 and Spy X Family Volume 1.
Without further ado, here’s the list of the top 20 manga volumes made by Circana BookScan in the US for the entire year of 2023:
| Circana BookScan Top 20 Manga Graphic Novels – Full Year 2023 | |||
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher |
| 1 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA |
| 2 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 1 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 3 | SPY X FAMILY VOL. 1 | TATSUYA ENDO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 4 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 5 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 HC | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE COMICS |
| 6 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 0 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 7 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 12 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 8 | SPY X FAMILY VOL. 9 | TATSUYA ENDO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 9 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 10 | SPY X FAMILY VOL. 2 | TATSUYA ENDO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 11 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 2 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 12 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 19 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 13 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 2 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA |
| 14 | MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 33 | KOHEI HORIKOSHI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 15 | ONE PIECE VOL. 103 | EIICHIRO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
| 16 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 3 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 17 | BLUE LOCK VOL. 1 | MUNEYUKI KANESHIRO | KODANSHA COMICS |
| 18 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 20 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 19 | SPY X FAMILY VOL. 3 | TATSUYA ENDO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 20 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 18 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
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 Demon Slayer:
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge. It was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, with its chapters collected in 23 tankōbon volumes.
The 26-episode 1st season by Ufotable was broadcast from April to September 2019. October 2020 saw the release of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train, a sequel that became the highest-grossing anime film and Japanese film of all time.
Demon Slayer entered its second season with 18 episodes, which debuted in October 2021 and concluded in February 2022, covering the Entertainment District arc. Concurrently, in February 2023, a compilation film titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village was released. From April 2023 to June 2023, a third season consisting of eleven episodes was broadcast, showcasing the Swordsmith Village arc.
Crunchyroll describes the overall plot of Demon Slayer as follows:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a “demon slayer” so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.
Source: ICv2 site
