{"id":8329,"date":"2022-03-03T02:11:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pabconference.com\/manga-sales-in-the-us-more-than-doubled-during-2021\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T02:11:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T02:11:53","slug":"manga-sales-in-the-us-more-than-doubled-during-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/manga-sales-in-the-us-more-than-doubled-during-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga sales in the US more than doubled during 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-content\" data-postid=\"3512021\" data-slug-id=\"1031339\">\n<p>Media news website ICv2 recently put out a report detailing manga sales in the US via NPD BookScan throughout 2021. The report&#8217;s conclusion claims that 2021 manga sales were more than double what they were in 2020 throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of manga units sold was 24.4 million, a 160% increase equating to 15 million copies over last year&#8217;s totals.  Attached to these figures is a disclaimer that says the <em>My Hero Academy<\/em> manga may have sold more units than counted in 2021 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Follow along as this article breaks down the full report detailing manga sales in the US throughout 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sportskeeda-embed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/anime\/twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-outer-container\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"tweet-container\">\n<p>Based on analysis of sales through comic stores and the book channel, here&#8217;s the Top 10 Manga Franchises of Fall 2021:<br \/>1) Demon Slayer<br \/>2) One-Punch Man<br \/>3) AOT<br \/>4) Berserk<br \/>5) MHA<br \/>6) Junji Ito<br \/>7) Jujutsu Kaisen<br \/>8) Jojo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure<br \/>9) Toilet-bound Hanako-kun<br \/>10) Chainsaw Man<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"app-tweet-blockquote\"><p>Based on analysis of sales through comic stores and the book channel, here&#8217;s the Top 10 Manga Franchises of Fall 2021:1) Demon Slayer2) One-Punch Man3) AOT4) Berserk5) MHA6) Junji Ito7) Jujutsu Kaisen8) Jojo&#8217;s Bizarre Adventure9) Toilet -bound Hanako-kun10) Chainsaw Man https:\/\/t.co\/jCeu4Xs5S4<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<h2>Manga sales in the US grew 160%, North American comic market valued 1.28 billion USD<\/h2>\n<h3\/>\n<h3>ICv2 report details<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sk-app-thumbnail\" alt=\"My Hero Academia was one of 2021's best selling manga in the US (Image via Studio Bones)\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2022\/03\/cce7d-16462406095231-1920.jpg\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-img\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-img=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2022\/03\/cce7d-16462406095231-1920.jpg\" alt=\"My Hero Academia was one of 2021's best selling manga in the US (Image via Studio Bones)\" data-img-low=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2022\/03\/cce7d-16462406095231-1920.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,&lt;svg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%201280%20720%22&gt;&lt;\/svg&gt;\"\/><figcaption>My Hero Academia was one of 2021&#8217;s best selling manga in the US (Image via Studio Bones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As aforementioned, media news website ICv2 is reporting that manga sales in the US grew 160% from 2021 to 2022. This number could potentially be even higher, with ICv2 reporting that <em>My Hero Academy<\/em> manga sales in the US may have been undercounted for both years.<\/p>\n<p>Viz Media vice president Kevin Hamric also told ICv2 via interview that the company is seeing much higher manga sales in this timeframe of 2022 compared to that of 2021. He added that the growth rate is slower, however, adding that manga accounted for a quarter of the overall book industry growth in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Hamric also stated that the company is expecting supply chain issues to continue through the rest of the year, likely due to the state of Japan as it relates to the Covid pandemic.  ICv2 reports that backlogged box sets and individual volumes factored strongly into this year&#8217;s sales.<\/p>\n<p>ICv2 attributes the increased demand in manga volumes to increased anime streaming throughout the pandemic.  The new peak of manga purchases surpassed the 2007 record for manga sales in the US.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sportskeeda-embed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/anime\/twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-outer-container\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"tweet-container\">\n<p>The combined total for Japanese comic(manga) market size (estimated sales amount) in 2021 increased by 10.3% from the previous year to 675.9 Billion yen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tweet-images-container images-count-1\">\n<div class=\"tweet-image-summary\" style=\"padding-bottom: 48.82%;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sk-app-thumbnail\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2022\/03\/ef83b-16462587670070.png\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-img\" width=\"680\" height=\"332\" data-img=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2022\/03\/ef83b-16462587670070.png\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" data-img-low=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/editor\/2022\/03\/ef83b-16462587670070.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,&lt;svg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20680%20332%22&gt;&lt;\/svg&gt;\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManganiMY\/status\/1497066991651225602\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"app-tweet-blockquote\"><p>The combined total for Japanese comic(manga) market size (estimated sales amount) in 2021 increased by 10.3% from the previous year to 675.9 Billion yen. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7onGKDDp6W\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/7onGKDDp6W<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hamric had previously reported in March 2021 that Viz Media saw 70% growth in their US market during 2020, alongside a 43% overall increase in manga sales for the same year.<\/p>\n<p>ICv2 further reports that NPD BookScan&#8217;s April 2021 report showed a 29% overall increase in print book sales for the United States.  This was also the highest volume of print book sales since NPD&#8217;s BookScan was introduced in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The report showed a particularly high growth of 4 million units in graphic novels compared to the April 2020 report, with 80% of that growth coming from manga volumes.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3>In summation<\/h3>\n<div class=\"sportskeeda-embed\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.sportskeeda.com\/anime\/twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-outer-container\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"tweet-container\">\n<div class=\"tweet-body\">It is tho?  It wont skyrocket in sales &#038; reach top 10 if it wasn&#8217;t for the anime&#8217;s quality making it highly popular.  Doesnt make it bad.  manga art was ok-ish, those spreads aint it.  Overall it was mid to high tier.  anime adaptation elevated the source into an even higher place <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U8GCD31WU8\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/DemonSlayerJon\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"tweet-outer-container\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"tweet-container\">\n<div class=\"tweet-body\">I will never forget someone said Demon Slayer&#8217;s Manga is carried by animation<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sk-app-thumbnail\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2d\" src=\"https:\/\/twemoji.maxcdn.com\/36x36\/1f62d.png\"\/><\/noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-img\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" data-img=\"https:\/\/twemoji.maxcdn.com\/36x36\/1f62d.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude2d\" data-img-low=\"https:\/\/twemoji.maxcdn.com\/36x36\/1f62d.png\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,&lt;svg%20xmlns=%22http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%2018%2018%22&gt;&lt;\/svg&gt;\"\/>\u2620\ufe0f<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"app-tweet-blockquote\"><p>I will never forget someone said Demon Slayer&#8217;s Manga is carried by animation\ud83d\ude2d\u2620\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/erVc5KI4bv<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"app-tweet-blockquote\"><p>It is tho?  It wont skyrocket in sales &#038; reach top 10 if it wasn&#8217;t for the anime&#8217;s quality making it highly popular.  Doesnt make it bad.  manga art was ok-ish, those spreads aint it.  Overall it was mid to high tier.  anime adaptation elevated the source into an even higher place <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U8GCD31WU8\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/DemonSlayerJon\u2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>ICv2&#8217;s report clearly shows a growing trend in manga sales in the US over the last two years.  Furthermore, much of this growth is attributed to an increase in anime streaming, indicating that the anime industry is performing as intended stateside.<\/p>\n<p>The growth presented could be even higher, with <em>My Hero Academy<\/em> manga sales being undercounted for both years.  Even if this isn&#8217;t the case, the increase in US manga sales over the pandemic era has been astonishing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-articles-container\">\n<div class=\"heading-article\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"also-read\">Also Read<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"article-continues\">Article Continues below<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"related-articles-carousel-anchors\">\n<div id=\"right\" class=\"hidden\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/skm\/assets\/ic-chevron-right.svg\" height=\"20\" width=\"20\" alt=\"Right arrow for carousel\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"left\" class=\"hidden\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/skm\/assets\/ic-chevron-left.svg\" height=\"20\" width=\"20\" alt=\"Left arrow for carousel\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s clear is that manga sales in the US seem to be showing no signs of slowing down, especially if early 2022 Q1 trends are any indication.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>SK Anime is now on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SK_Anime_\" target=\"_blank\" data-is-sponsored=\"false\">Twitter<\/a> &#038; Facebook with updates on your favorite shows &#038; manga, all in one place!<\/p>\n<p><template id=\"login-template\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"oauth-button-container reply-oauth\">\n<div class=\"login-support-text\">\n<span>Login to reply<\/span><br \/>\n<button class=\"reply-oauth-close\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticg.sportskeeda.com\/close.svg\" alt=\"close\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\"\/><br \/>\n<\/button>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/template><\/p>\n<p><template id=\"reply-input-template\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"reply-section-container\" parent-comment-id=\"\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"pic-near-reply-box\" src=\"\/\" alt=\"Profile picture\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/template>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script> \nvar fbPixelFired = false;\ndocument.addEventListener(\"scroll\", function() { loadFBPixel() });\ndocument.addEventListener(\"mousemove\", function() { loadFBPixel() });\nfunction loadFBPixel() {\nif(fbPixelFired) {\nreturn;\n}\nfbPixelFired = true;\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod? \nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, \ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '952063904834769'); \nfbq('track', \"PageView\");\nfbq('track', 'ViewContent');\n}\n<\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media news website ICv2 recently put out a report detailing manga sales in the US via NPD BookScan throughout 2021.<span class=\"more-dots\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[280,283,1636,3490,3636],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animemanga","tag-anime","tag-anime-news","tag-esports-socials","tag-my-hero-academy","tag-news","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wijhha.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}