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My Hero Academia Ranks at #1 on U.S. Monthly BookScan December List

Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 1 ranked at #1 on NPD BookScan's Top 20 adult graphic novels list for December.

This month's list featured 16 manga volumes, including:

• #1 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 1
• #2 — Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1
• #3 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 2
• #4 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 3
• #6 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 4
• #7 — Junji Ito's Uzumaki Hardcover
• #8 — Iro Aida's Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun volume 1
• #9 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 24
• #10 — Junji Ito's Remina Hardcover
• #11 —  Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 2
• #12 — Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!! volume 1
• #13 — Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan volume 1
• #14 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 25
• #15 — Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia volume 5
• #18 — Sui Ishida's Tokyo Ghoul volume 1 
• #20 — Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Death Note Black Edition volume 1

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.

Thanks to Hugh Franklin Jarrett for the news tip.

Source: ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)