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Spy×Family Ranks #1 on U.S. Monthly Bookscan May List

Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family manga ranked at #1 on NPD BookScan's Top 20 adult graphic novels list for May.

This month's list featured 19 manga volumes, including:

• #1 — Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family volume 1
• #2 — Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note Short Stories
• #4 — Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family volume 7
• #5 — Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family volume 2
• #6 — Kentarō Miura's Berserk Hardcover volume 1
• #7 — Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family volume 4
• #8 — Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family volume 6
• #9 — Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man volume 10
• #10 — Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen volume 0
• #11 — Iro Aida's Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun volume 1
• #12 — Eiichiro Oda's One Piece volume 99
• #13 — Tatsuya Endō's Spy×Family volume 5
• #14 — Shinichi Fukuda's My Dress-Up Darling volume 5
• #15 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 1
• #16 — Koyoharu Gotouge and Ryoji Hirano's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - Stories of Water and Flame
• #17 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 30
• #18 — Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon Naoko Takeuchi Collection volume 1
• #19 — Iro Aida's Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun volume 13
• #20 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1

Yen Press' release of Chugong and DUBU's Solo Leveling Korean webcomic ranked at #3 on the list. The title is the first non-manga work to rank on the top 20 chart in 2022.

This month's list also featured the first time a Square Enix Manga & Books title (My Dress-Up Darling) has made this top 20 list.

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)