The hype of Demon Slayer is still going strong as the 11th volume of the manga has reached #2 on NPD BookScan’s Top 20 adult graphic novel list for the previous month.
The BookScan rankings (which covers about 85% of the U.S. trade print book market) collect data sales from more than 16,000 location including independent bookshops, online purchases, and even popular bookstores like Barnes & Noble. Sales from Walmart.com, comic book stores, and related were not included in the sales count.
Aside from Demon Slayer, a couple of volumes of My Hero Academia also made it to the list as well as BEASTARS, One-Punch Man, Berserk, and Junji Ito’s Uzumaki
Below show the complete rankings:
#2 — Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba manga volume 11
#3 — ONE and Yūsuke Murata’s One-Punch Man volume 19
#4 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 1
#5 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 2
#6 — Kentarou Miura’s Berserk Deluxe volume 4
#7 — Toyotarō Dragon Ball Super volume 8
#8 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 23
#10 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 22
#11 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 3
#12 — Koyoharu Gotouge’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1
#14 — Junji Ito’s Uzumaki Hardcover
#15 — Kaiu Shirai and Posuka Demizu’s The Promised Neverland volume 14
#16 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 4
#17 — Paru Itagaki’s BEASTARS volume 5
#19 — Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia volume 5
It was reported that the 19th volume of the manga has sold around 1,378,000 copies. This based on Oricon’s weekly print sales chart last month (February 3 to 9). With that said, Demon Slayer is now the third manga series to have a single volume to sell over 1 million copies in a week. The first two series that reached this kind of manga sales achievement were Attack on Titan (2 times) and One Piece (45 times).
As of February 4, the manga series has sold around 40 million copies in circulation. This includes both print and digital releases.
While this specific manga volume made it to the ranks, nine other volumes of Demon Slayer were also included in the top ten in the same week. This is the second time consecutively that manga series occupied the entire top 10 rankings. According to Oricon, the franchise has already earned an estimate of 1.5268 billion yen (around USD $13.90 million) from CDs, to its printed publications, DVDs, and Blu-Ray Discs in just that week alone.
Demon Slayer is a popular shonen manga series written by Koyoharu Gotoge. It was first released in February 2016 in Weekly Shonen Jump and still ongoing. 16 compiled volumes have been released so far in Japan. The manga is released officially in English by VIZ Media.
The anime adaptation of the series premiered in April 6, 2019 with animation done by Ufotable, notable for their productions of the animated adaptations of the Fate franchise.
A summary of the manga series is found below:
“ Since ancient times, rumors have abounded of man-eating demons lurking in the woods. Because of this, the local townsfolk never venture outside at night. Legend has it that a demon slayer also roams the night, hunting down these bloodthirsty demons. For young Tanjiro, these rumors will soon to become his harsh reality. Ever since the death of his father, Tanjiro has taken it upon himself to support his family. Although their lives may be hardened by tragedy, they’ve found happiness. But that ephemeral warmth is shattered one day when Tanjiro finds his family slaughtered and the lone survivor, his sister Nezuko, turned into a demon. To his surprise, however, Nezuko still shows signs of human emotion and thought. Thus begins Tanjiro’s request to fight demons and turn his sister human again.”
Source: ANN