{
    "profile": "tabular-data-package",
    "name": "mangainfo-english-manga",
    "id": "https://mangainfo.com/data",
    "title": "Mangainfo English Manga Dataset",
    "description": "Every English manga edition Mangainfo lists, matched to the Japanese volumes it holds, with ISBNs, release dates with their precision, publishers and formats. Three tables: series, Japanese volumes and English editions. Updated every month. Mangainfo English Manga Dataset by Mangainfo (https://mangainfo.com), licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit \"Data: Mangainfo (https://mangainfo.com/data)\" with a link. English edition data largely from ISBNdb (https://isbndb.com), used with permission. Japanese volume data from the NDL Search API of the National Diet Library (iss-ndl-opac, CC BY, Public Data License 1.0), edited and matched by Mangainfo. Chapter numbers per volume are facts from the chapter lists of English Wikipedia, checked by Mangainfo; the README names the page of each series. AniList ids are bare identifiers. AniList is not affiliated.",
    "version": "2026.10.0",
    "created": "2026-10-21T17:03:49Z",
    "homepage": "https://mangainfo.com/data",
    "keywords": [
        "manga",
        "english manga",
        "manga releases",
        "release dates",
        "isbn",
        "books",
        "publishing",
        "japan",
        "translation",
        "bibliographic data"
    ],
    "licenses": [
        {
            "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
            "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
            "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"
        }
    ],
    "contributors": [
        {
            "title": "Mangainfo",
            "path": "https://mangainfo.com",
            "role": "author"
        }
    ],
    "sources": [
        {
            "title": "Mangainfo",
            "path": "https://mangainfo.com"
        },
        {
            "title": "ISBNdb (English edition data, used with permission)",
            "path": "https://isbndb.com"
        },
        {
            "title": "NDL Search API, National Diet Library (Japanese volume data, CC BY, edited by Mangainfo)",
            "path": "https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/help/api"
        }
    ],
    "resources": [
        {
            "name": "series",
            "path": "series.csv",
            "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
            "title": "Series",
            "description": "One row per manga series with a public page on Mangainfo. Adult series are left out. Rows: 693.",
            "format": "csv",
            "mediatype": "text/csv",
            "encoding": "utf-8",
            "dialect": {
                "delimiter": ",",
                "lineTerminator": "\r\n",
                "quoteChar": "\"",
                "doubleQuote": true,
                "header": true
            },
            "schema": {
                "fields": [
                    {
                        "name": "slug",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Mangainfo name of the series, the last part of its page address. Joins the other tables.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "title",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The series name as its page on Mangainfo shows it.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "anilist_id",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "AniList media id, a bare identifier for joins. Empty when not known."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "status_japan",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Publication status in Japan.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "enum": [
                                "releasing",
                                "finished",
                                "hiatus",
                                "cancelled",
                                "not_yet_released"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "status_english",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "How far the English edition is: complete (finished in Japan, every volume out in English), caught_up (every Japanese volume so far out in English), behind (Japan is ahead), in_english (out in English, Japanese count not known), upcoming (first English volume dated, none out yet) or unknown.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true,
                            "enum": [
                                "complete",
                                "caught_up",
                                "behind",
                                "in_english",
                                "upcoming",
                                "unknown"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "volumes_japan",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Japanese volumes out on the day of the snapshot."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "volumes_english",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Highest volume number out in English on the day of the snapshot."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "url",
                        "type": "string",
                        "format": "uri",
                        "description": "The series page on Mangainfo.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "missingValues": [
                    ""
                ],
                "primaryKey": [
                    "slug"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "japanese_volumes",
            "path": "japanese_volumes.csv",
            "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
            "title": "Japanese volumes",
            "description": "One row per numbered Japanese volume (tankobon) of a series in the series table. Japanese bibliographic data from the NDL Search API of the National Diet Library, edited and matched by Mangainfo. Chapter numbers from English Wikipedia. Rows: 10434.",
            "format": "csv",
            "mediatype": "text/csv",
            "encoding": "utf-8",
            "dialect": {
                "delimiter": ",",
                "lineTerminator": "\r\n",
                "quoteChar": "\"",
                "doubleQuote": true,
                "header": true
            },
            "schema": {
                "fields": [
                    {
                        "name": "series_slug",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The series (series.slug).",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "volume",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Volume number in Japan.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "isbn13",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "ISBN-13 of the Japanese volume, as the NDL states it."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "release_date",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Japanese release date as exact as the NDL states it: 2019-03-04 (day), 2019-03 (month) or 2019 (year)."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "release_date_precision",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "day, month or year. Empty when the date is empty.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "enum": [
                                "day",
                                "month",
                                "year"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "publisher",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Japanese publisher as the NDL names it."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "ndl_id",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "NDL bibliographic id. The record is at https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I{ndl_id}."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "chapters_from",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "First main chapter in the volume, from the series' chapter list on English Wikipedia (the README names the page per series). Side stories numbered apart are not counted. Empty when not known."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "chapters_to",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Last main chapter in the volume, from the same Wikipedia page. Empty when not known."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "url",
                        "type": "string",
                        "format": "uri",
                        "description": "The volume page on Mangainfo.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "missingValues": [
                    ""
                ],
                "primaryKey": [
                    "series_slug",
                    "volume"
                ],
                "foreignKeys": [
                    {
                        "fields": "series_slug",
                        "reference": {
                            "resource": "series",
                            "fields": "slug"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "name": "english_editions",
            "path": "english_editions.csv",
            "profile": "tabular-data-resource",
            "title": "English editions",
            "description": "One row per English edition (print or digital) Mangainfo shows, with the Japanese volumes it holds. An omnibus holds several. Editions Mangainfo hides as copies of another edition of the same volume are left out. Rows: 10202.",
            "format": "csv",
            "mediatype": "text/csv",
            "encoding": "utf-8",
            "dialect": {
                "delimiter": ",",
                "lineTerminator": "\r\n",
                "quoteChar": "\"",
                "doubleQuote": true,
                "header": true
            },
            "schema": {
                "fields": [
                    {
                        "name": "edition_id",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Mangainfo id of the edition. Stable between snapshots.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "series_slug",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "The series (series.slug).",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "japanese_volumes",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Japanese volume numbers the edition holds, separated by a semicolon: 1, or 4;5;6 for an omnibus. In JSON a list of numbers.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "isbn13",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "ISBN-13."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "isbn10",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "ISBN-10 where one exists."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "label",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "What sets the edition apart from the other English editions of its volume, as Mangainfo shows it: Paperback, Digital, 3 in 1 edition, volumes 4 to 6, and so on."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "format",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Format of the book.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "enum": [
                                "paperback",
                                "hardcover",
                                "omnibus",
                                "box_set",
                                "digital",
                                "light_novel"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "publisher",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "English publisher as Mangainfo names it."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "release_date",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "English release date as exact as the sources state it: 2026-11-03 (day), 2026-11 (month) or 2026 (year). Never a guessed day."
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "release_date_precision",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "day, month or year. Empty when the date is empty.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "enum": [
                                "day",
                                "month",
                                "year"
                            ]
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "url",
                        "type": "string",
                        "format": "uri",
                        "description": "The page on Mangainfo of the first volume the edition holds.",
                        "constraints": {
                            "required": true
                        }
                    }
                ],
                "missingValues": [
                    ""
                ],
                "primaryKey": [
                    "edition_id"
                ],
                "foreignKeys": [
                    {
                        "fields": "series_slug",
                        "reference": {
                            "resource": "series",
                            "fields": "slug"
                        }
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}