Viz Media’s releases claimed 47 places in the top 50 highest selling manga volumes in terms of units sold in 2018, and claimed 46 places in the top 50 highest selling manga volumes in terms of gross revenue in 2018.
The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation (SPJA) released its first white paper on the state of the manga industry in North America last Friday in conjunction with Nonlinear World.
The first volume of Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia manga was the 28th highest selling graphic novel in the United States in 2018.
The paper noted that an anime adaptation is still the strongest driver for sales in North America.