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Attack on Titan Ranks #1 on U.S. Monthly Bookscan May List

Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan volume 33 ranked at #1 on NPD BookScan's Top 20 adult graphic novels list for May.

Manga occupied all 20 spots on the rankings for the month, for the second month in a row:

• #1 — Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan volume 33
• #2 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 8
• #3 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 9
• #4 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 10
• #5 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 1
• #6 — Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan volume 1
• #7 — Tatsuya Endō's SPY x FAMILY volume 1
• #8 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 27
• #9 — Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul volume 1
• #10 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 11
• #11 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 3
• #12 — Iro Aida's Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun volume 1
• #13 —  Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1
• #14 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 7
• #15 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 12
• #16 — Tomohito Oda's Komi Can't Communicate volume 1
• #17 — Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter X Hunter volume 1
• #18 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 2
• #19 — Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen volume 3
• #20 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 26

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)