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ICv2: U.S. Manga Sales Increase By 9% in 2022
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The website's analysis is based on data from NPD BookScan and from POS system ComicHub for the comic store channel.
The Beat reported that manga saw a 171.1% rise in volumes sold in 2021 from the previous year. NPD BookScan's graphic novel sales figures for 2021 found that the manga subcategory made up 76.71% of the volumes sold in the Adult Fiction category. The discrepancy is in figures was due to a difference in classification.
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 (Milton Griepp, Brigid Alverson)