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Manga licensed in English in 2002

5 series got their first English edition in 2002. VIZ Media has the most new series: 3. The latest is X from VIZ Media. Vol. 1 came out on 10 December 2002.

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May 2002 1

First English editions, May 2002
SeriesEnglish publisherFirst English volumeDateStatus in Japan
Paradise Kiss Tokyopop Vol. 1 Finished in Japan

December 2002 1

First English editions, December 2002
SeriesEnglish publisherFirst English volumeDateStatus in Japan
X VIZ Media Vol. 1 Releasing in Japan

Month not known 3

First English editions, Month not known
SeriesEnglish publisherFirst English volumeDateStatus in Japan
Gyo VIZ Media Vol. 1 Finished in Japan
Initial D Tokyopop Vol. 1 Finished in Japan
Vagabond VIZ Media Vol. 1 Releasing in Japan

How this list is made

A series is on this list in the year its first English edition comes out. Mangainfo takes the earliest dated English edition of the series from a manga publisher. Library rebinds and distributors do not count. That edition has to hold volume 1. When the earliest edition Mangainfo knows is a later volume, the catalog is missing the start of the series, so the series is left out. The list is in the order of that date.

The date is the release date of that first book, not the day a publisher announced the license. No source states announcement days. A license shows here once its first book has a date. A book dated to a month goes under that month. A book dated only to a year goes under "Month not known".

A series that came to English before, with another publisher, counts in the year of its first English edition, not of the new one. Only series with a page on Mangainfo are listed. Adult series are left out. "Coming" marks a book still to come out.