Adults were reaching for manga with anime adaptations in 2025, while a new series, Warriors, is making waves in the Kids category on the charts of the Top 20 best-selling Adult and Kids graphic novels based on Circana (formerly NPD) BookScan data for the full year 2025 (1/2/2025 – 1/3/2026) provided to ICv2.
The anime impact on manga sales is nowhere more evident than in the case of the chart-topping Jujutsu Kaisen series. After the second season of the anime ended in December 2023, sales of the later volumes surged (see “January 2024 Circana BookScan“), as readers turned to the manga to find out where the story would go next. And they kept reading: Since then, every volume but one has debuted at number 1 on the BookScan chart, and multiple volumes, including the first and most recent, made the charts every month. The series will end with Vol. 30, to be released sometime in 2026 (Vol. 29 is due out in February), but the spinoff series Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo has already launched in Japan and will be published in English by VIZ Media. Meanwhile, the third season of the anime dropped on January 9.
While made-for-television anime is still the most common format, two properties got a big boost from feature films in 2025: Chainsaw Man (see “‘Chainsaw Man’ Carves Up BO“) and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (see “‘Demon Slayer’ Boffo“). The Demon Slayer manga ended in 2021, but Vol. 1 turns up on the charts every month as new readers continue to discover the series. Most of the other titles in the Top 20 have streaming anime adaptations, including Solo Leveling, a Korean property that clinched its best-seller status thanks to the anime.
Looking to the future, the second season of the One Piece live-action series is set to premiere in March (see “‘One Piece’ S2 Teaser“). That was the most-watched show on Netflix in the second half of 2023, and it had a long-running effect on sales: Before that, One Piece seldom made the chart, but after that, the first volume has been consistently in the Top 20 and the newest volumes always debut on the chart as well.
The one non-Asian title on the 2025 best-seller list is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. Make of that what you will.
| Circana BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – Full Year 2025 | |||
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher |
| 1 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 26 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 2 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 25 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 3 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 1 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 4 | DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA VOL. 1 | KOYOHARU GOTOUGE | VIZ MEDIA |
| 5 | ONE PIECE OMNIBUS EDITION VOL. 1 | EIICHIRO ODA | VIZ MEDIA |
| 6 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 1 | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
| 7 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 1 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 8 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 17 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 9 | CHAINSAW MAN VOL. 18 | TATSUKI FUJIMOTO | VIZ MEDIA |
| 10 | BLUE LOCK VOL. 1 | MUNEYUKI KANESHIRO | KODANSHA COMICS |
| 11 | GACHIAKUTA VOL. 1 | KEI URANA | KODANSHA COMICS |
| 12 | DANDADAN VOL. 1 | YUKINOBU TATSU | VIZ MEDIA |
| 13 | JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE: PART 7–STEEL BALL RUN VOL. 1 | HIROHIKO ARAKI | VIZ MEDIA |
| 14 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 11 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 15 | TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: THE LAST RONIN | KEVIN EASTMAN | IDW PUBLISHING |
| 16 | THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED VOL. 1 | MOKUMOKUREN | YEN PRESS |
| 17 | BERSERK DELUXE VOL. 2 | KENTARO MIURA | DARK HORSE |
| 18 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 12 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 19 | SOLO LEVELING VOL. 10 | CHUGONG | IZE PRESS |
| 20 | JUJUTSU KAISEN VOL. 27 | GEGE AKUTAMI | VIZ MEDIA |
| Source: Circana | |||
Meanwhile, the Warriors cats have elbowed their way onto the Kids Top 20, wresting three of the best-seller slots away from Graphix, which had all 20 best-sellers last year (see “Full Year 2024 Circana BookScan”). This is a new graphic novel series, but the property it’s based on, the best-selling middle-grade prose novels by the pseudonymous Erin Hunter, is over 20 years old: The first novel appeared in 2003. Tokyopop started doing graphic adaptations in partnership with HarperCollins in 2007, and the first volume was the first OEL (Original English Language) to hit number 1 on BookScan’s best-seller chart (see “OEL Manga Tops Graphic Novel Charts“). And now the cats are back, with a fourth volume of the new Warriors series due out in June 2026. For those who can’t wait, HarperAlley has published new editions of the Tokyopop titles as full-color three-in-one omnibi.
That said, the other 17 slots on the chart belong to Graphix, and 13 of those are volumes of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man. Pilkey’s other series, Cat Kid, dropped off the chart this year; the most recent volume came out in 2023. One series worth watching is Cassandra Calin’s The New Girl, a middle-grade story about a girl who has just immigrated from Romania. It’s not an adaptation or part of a blockbuster franchise, yet it was popular enough to make the year’s best-seller list in a very competitive category. A second volume is slated for May 25, 2026.
| Circana BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – Full Year 2025 | |||
| Rank | Title | Author | Publisher |
| 1 | DOG MAN VOL. 14: BIG JIM BELIEVES HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 2 | DOG MAN VOL. 13: BIG JIM BEGINS HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 3 | DOG MAN VOL. 12: THE SCARLET SHEDDER HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 4 | DOG MAN VOL. 11: TWENTY THOUSAND FLEAS UNDER THE SEA HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 5 | DOG MAN VOL. 1 HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 6 | WINGS OF FIRE VOL. 8: ESCAPING PERIL | TUI T. SUTHERLAND | GRAPHIX |
| 7 | WARRIORS GRAPHIC NOVEL: THE PROPHECIES BEGIN PART TWO OF THREE | ERIN HUNTER | HARPERALLEY |
| 8 | WARRIORS GRAPHIC NOVEL: THE PROPHECIES BEGIN PART ONE OF THREE | ERIN HUNTER | HARPERALLEY |
| 9 | DARKSTALKER: A WINGS OF FIRE: LEGENDS GRAPHIC NOVEL | TUI T. SUTHERLAND | GRAPHIX |
| 10 | DOG MAN VOL. 2: UNLEASHED HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 11 | DOG MAN VOL. 10: MOTHERING HEIGHTS HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 12 | THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB #17: MALLORY AND THE TROUBLE WITH TWINS | ARLEY NOPRA | GRAPHIX |
| 13 | DOG MAN VOL. 9: GRIME AND PUNISHMENT HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 14 | DOG MAN VOL. 3: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 15 | DOG MAN VOL. 7: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 16 | WARRIORS GRAPHIC NOVEL: THE PROPHECIES BEGIN PART THREE OF THREE | ERIN HUNTER | HARPERALLEY |
| 17 | DOG MAN VOL. 8: FETCH-22 HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 18 | DOG MAN VOL. 4 DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 19 | DOG MAN VOL. 6: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC | DAV PILKEY | GRAPHIX |
| 20 | THE NEW GIRL VOL. 1 | CASSANDRA CALIN | GRAPHIX |
| Source: Circana | |||
For charts of Full Year 2025 graphic novel sales from Circana:
Full Year 2025 Circana – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from Circana, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
Full Year 2025 Circana – Top 20 Adult and Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
Full Year 2025 Circana – Top 20 Author, Manga, and Superhero Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
Circana collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. Circana 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; we’ve removed those titles from the ranking above.
For past Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the “Top 20 GN Index.”
Source: ICv2
