Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga has earned the rank of #1 on February’s NPD BookScan’s Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels. This news breaks after fans beg the author to get an adamant amount of rest following updates about his poor health.
The month’s list features 19 different manga volumes.
- #1 — Kōhei Horikoshi‘s My Hero Academia volume 33
- #3 — Koyoharu Gotouge‘s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba volume 1
- #4 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 1
- #5 — Shinichi Fukuda‘s My Dress-Up Darling volume 7
- #6 — Tatsuya Endō‘s SPY x FAMILY volume 1
- #7 — Kōhei Horikoshi‘s My Hero Academia volume 1
- #8 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 2
- #9 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 3
- #10 — Tomohito Oda‘s Komi Can’t Communicate volume 23
- #11 — Tatsuya Endō‘s SPY x FAMILY volume 2
- #12 — Tatsuya Endō‘s SPY x FAMILY volume 3
- #13 — Naoya Matsumoto‘s Kaiju No. 8 volume 5
- #14 — Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen volume 18
- #15 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 4
- #16 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 7
- #17 — Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yūsuke Nomura‘s Blue Lock volume 1
- #18 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 9
- #19 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 10
- #20 — Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Chainsaw Man volume 5
NPD BookScan collects weekly points of sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations around the world. The data is collected through e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. NPD BookScan covers about 85% of the US trade print book market. The ranks on their charts are based on price sales. With the surge of popularity for the series, fans should expect to see My Hero Academia rank on other book-selling lists.
Horikoshi and My Hero Academia: A Supported Hiatus
Kohei Horikoshi, the author of the My Hero Academia manga series, is currently in the middle of a two-week hiatus due to a health scare. His most recent chapter, “Don’t Let Him Go,” was released on March 2nd, and fans are concerned that he is compromising his health by continuously returning to work on the series. After a recent tweet from Weekly Shonen Jump regarding Horikoshi’s condition, fans took to Twitter to criticize the publication for not allowing the artist adequate leaves of absence leading up to the hiatus.
Horikoshi still appears to be motivated to continue publishing My Hero Academia despite the concerns. He even assured concerned fans that he was ok publishing the manga on an irregular basis. However, he may be planning to end the series soon, as he mentioned that it would likely be the last popularity poll for the series.
