English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2011
Manga release statistics for 2011: 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 .
305
new English manga volumes in 2011
- new English volumes
- 305
- publishers
- 7
- median from Japan to English
- 69 months
- series new to English
- 7
Mangainfo counts 305 new English manga volumes released in 2011. They belong to 24 series from 7 publishers. 2010 had 174. That is 131 more, a rise of 75.3%.
VIZ Media released the most: 271 volumes, or 88.9% of the year. Seven Seas followed with 15 and Yen Press with 10.
July was the busiest month with 59 volumes. Rurouni Kenshin had the most volumes in one month: 17 in July.
A volume took a median of 69 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 78.4 months. Both figures cover the 221 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 25 months. VIZ Media took the longest at 73 months. Maid-sama! moved fastest: a median of 15.5 months over 2 volumes. Dragon Ball had the longest wait: a median of 223 months.
7 series got their first English edition in 2011. Among them are A Certain Scientific Railgun, No Longer Human and Noragami: Stray God. 3 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2011. They are Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, InuYasha and What a Wonderful World!.
New English manga volumes per month, 2011
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 11 | Released |
| February | 11 | Released |
| March | 7 | Released |
| April | 10 | Released |
| May | 10 | Released |
| June | 30 | Released |
| July | 59 | Released |
| August | 20 | Released |
| September | 14 | Released |
| October | 21 | Released |
| November | 16 | Released |
| December | 13 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2011">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2011</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2011
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 271 | 88.9% |
| Seven Seas | 15 | 4.9% |
| Yen Press | 10 | 3.3% |
| Tokyopop | 5 | 1.6% |
| Vertical | 2 | 0.7% |
| Chuang Yi Publishing | 1 | 0.3% |
| Kodansha | 1 | 0.3% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2011">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2011</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2011
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyopop | 25 months | 27.8 months | 5 |
| Yen Press | 45.5 months | 42.3 months | 6 |
| VIZ Media | 73 months | 81.2 months | 208 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2011">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2011</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Maid-sama! | 15.5 months | 2 |
| Blue Exorcist | 17 months | 4 |
| Gakuen Alice | 26 months | 2 |
| D.Gray-man | 26 months | 5 |
| Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan | 30 months | 3 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Ball | 223 months | 5 |
| Rurouni Kenshin | 182 months | 20 |
| What a Wonderful World! | 92.5 months | 2 |
| One Piece | 83 months | 55 |
| Rosario+Vampire | 71 months | 6 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| A Certain Scientific Railgun | Seven Seas | |
| No Longer Human | Vertical | |
| Noragami: Stray God | Kodansha | |
| Bleach | VIZ Media | |
| Claymore | VIZ Media | |
| Rosario+Vampire | VIZ Media | |
| What a Wonderful World! | VIZ Media |
From the license tracker for 2011.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan | 25 | |
| InuYasha | 56 | |
| What a Wonderful World! | 2 |
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 2011 that left out 83 volumes without a date to the month, 0 without a Japanese date and 1 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 2011. 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/2011.
Mangainfo. (2011). English Manga Report 2011. https://mangainfo.com/report/2011