English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2013
Manga release statistics for 2013: 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 .
229
new English manga volumes in 2013
- new English volumes
- 229
- publishers
- 6
- median from Japan to English
- 69 months
- series new to English
- 5
Mangainfo counts 229 new English manga volumes released in 2013. They belong to 36 series from 6 publishers. 2012 had 103. That is 126 more, a rise of 122.3%.
VIZ Media released the most: 149 volumes, or 65.1% of the year. Yen Press followed with 60 and Kodansha with 16.
October was the busiest month with 17 volumes. Skip Beat! had the most volumes in one month: 10 in December.
A volume took a median of 69 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 85.4 months. Both figures cover the 141 volumes whose dates in Japan and in English are known at least to the month. Yen Press was the fastest of the publishers with 5 or more such volumes, at a median of 21 months. VIZ Media took the longest at 85 months. Bleach moved fastest: a median of 7 months over 5 volumes. Yu Yu Hakusho had the longest wait: a median of 254 months.
5 series got their first English edition in 2013. Among them are Monster Musume, Strobe Edge and Love★Com. 4 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2013. Among them are Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Hikaru no Go and 21st Century Boys.
New English manga volumes per month, 2013
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 6 | Released |
| February | 9 | Released |
| March | 11 | Released |
| April | 8 | Released |
| May | 15 | Released |
| June | 11 | Released |
| July | 11 | Released |
| August | 14 | Released |
| September | 7 | Released |
| October | 17 | Released |
| November | 15 | Released |
| December | 17 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2013">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2013</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2013
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 149 | 65.1% |
| Yen Press | 60 | 26.2% |
| Kodansha | 16 | 7% |
| Seven Seas | 2 | 0.9% |
| Chuang Yi Publishing | 1 | 0.4% |
| Yen | 1 | 0.4% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2013">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2013</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2013
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yen Press | 21 months | 26.3 months | 12 |
| Kodansha | 23 months | 34.5 months | 13 |
| VIZ Media | 85 months | 99.1 months | 113 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2013">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2013</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Bleach | 7 months | 5 |
| Nisekoi: False Love | 8 months | 4 |
| Naruto | 10 months | 4 |
| One Piece | 10 months | 3 |
| Claymore | 10.5 months | 2 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Yu Yu Hakusho | 254 months | 5 |
| Basara | 232 months | 3 |
| Detective Conan | 208 months | 16 |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! | 194 months | 3 |
| Red River | 181.5 months | 2 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Monster Musume | Seven Seas | |
| Strobe Edge | VIZ Media | |
| Love★Com | VIZ Media | |
| No. 6 | Kodansha | |
| Vinland Saga | Kodansha |
From the license tracker for 2013.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic | 37 | |
| Hikaru no Go | 23 | |
| 21st Century Boys | 2 | |
| We Were There | 16 |
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 2013 that left out 88 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 2013. 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/2013.
Mangainfo. (2013). English Manga Report 2013. https://mangainfo.com/report/2013