English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2009
Manga release statistics for 2009: new English volumes by month and by publisher, and how long a volume takes to come from Japan to English. Computed from Mangainfo's catalog of English editions.
Updated .
112
new English manga volumes in 2009
- new English volumes
- 112
- publishers
- 9
- median from Japan to English
- 48 months
- series new to English
- 1
Mangainfo counts 112 new English manga volumes released in 2009. They belong to 20 series from 9 publishers. 2008 had 149. That is 37 fewer, a drop of 24.8%.
VIZ Media released the most: 52 volumes, or 46.4% of the year. Yen Press followed with 29 and Tokyopop with 23.
April was the busiest month with 6 volumes.
A volume took a median of 48 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 51.3 months. Both figures cover the 41 volumes whose dates in Japan and in English are known at least to the month. Tokyopop was the fastest of the publishers with 5 or more such volumes, at a median of 29.5 months. VIZ Media took the longest at 58.5 months. Vagabond moved fastest: a median of 6 months over 2 volumes. 20th Century Boys had the longest wait: a median of 102 months.
One series got its first English edition in 2009. It is Future Diary. 3 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2009. They are 20th Century Boys, HELLSING and Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit.
New English manga volumes per month, 2009
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 4 | Released |
| February | 1 | Released |
| March | 1 | Released |
| April | 6 | Released |
| May | 3 | Released |
| June | 3 | Released |
| July | 5 | Released |
| August | 3 | Released |
| September | 1 | Released |
| October | 6 | Released |
| November | 4 | Released |
| December | 4 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2009">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2009</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2009
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 52 | 46.4% |
| Yen Press | 29 | 25.9% |
| Tokyopop | 23 | 20.5% |
| Chuang Yi | 3 | 2.7% |
| Chuang Yi Publishing | 1 | 0.9% |
| Del Rey | 1 | 0.9% |
| Del Rey, Ballantine | 1 | 0.9% |
| DrMaster Publications Incorporated | 1 | 0.9% |
| Glenat Espana Ediciones Sl | 1 | 0.9% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2009">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2009</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2009
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyopop | 29.5 months | 28.6 months | 8 |
| VIZ Media | 58.5 months | 61.5 months | 26 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2009">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2009</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Vagabond | 6 months | 2 |
| Initial D | 26 months | 2 |
| Maid-sama! | 29.5 months | 2 |
| Future Diary | 30 months | 3 |
| Zatch Bell! | 35 months | 3 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| 20th Century Boys | 102 months | 4 |
| Red River | 90.5 months | 4 |
| Strawberry 100% | 64 months | 4 |
| InuYasha | 53 months | 6 |
| Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit | 39 months | 3 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Future Diary | Tokyopop |
From the license tracker for 2009.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| 20th Century Boys | 22 | |
| HELLSING | 10 | |
| Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit | 10 |
Month by month
Methodology
The report counts Japanese manga volumes in English. A volume counts once, in the month of its first English edition from a manga publisher. Later editions of the same volume, such as an ebook after the print book or an omnibus, do not count again. Library rebinds and distributors do not count as publishers. A volume dated only to a year counts in the year but in no month.
The time from Japan to English is counted in calendar months, from the month of the Japanese release to the month of the first English edition. Only volumes whose dates are known at least to the month on both sides count. That keeps a guessed day out of the figures. A volume whose English date comes before its Japanese date is left out as a data error. In 2009 that left out 71 volumes without a date to the month, 0 without a Japanese date and 0 with English first. A publisher needs 5 such volumes for its own figure, and a series 2.
The data is Mangainfo's catalog: the series with a page on Mangainfo, without adult series. It is large but not complete, so older years and small publishers are undercounted. English edition data comes largely from ISBNdb. Japanese dates come from the National Diet Library. "Started in English" uses the license tracker. "Finished in English" is a series finished in Japan whose every volume is out in English, with the last one out in 2009. The figures are computed again every day, so they change as the catalog grows.
Use and cite
The figures and charts are free to use with credit: "Source: Mangainfo" and a link to this page. The rows behind them are in the open dataset under CC BY 4.0. The figures are also at /api/v1/report/2009.
Mangainfo. (2009). English Manga Report 2009. https://mangainfo.com/report/2009