English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2014
Manga release statistics for 2014: 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 .
359
new English manga volumes in 2014
- new English volumes
- 359
- publishers
- 7
- median from Japan to English
- 17 months
- series new to English
- 8
Mangainfo counts 359 new English manga volumes released in 2014. They belong to 52 series from 7 publishers. 2013 had 229. That is 130 more, a rise of 56.8%.
VIZ Media released the most: 163 volumes, or 45.4% of the year. Kodansha followed with 139 and Yen Press with 28.
April was the busiest month with 23 volumes. Black Butler had the most volumes in one month: 12 in April.
A volume took a median of 17 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 43.7 months. Both figures cover the 131 volumes whose dates in Japan and in English are known at least to the month. Seven Seas was the fastest of the publishers with 5 or more such volumes, at a median of 9 months. Kodansha took the longest at 37 months. All You Need Is Kill moved fastest: a median of 0 months over 2 volumes. Dragon Ball had the longest wait: a median of 282 months.
8 series got their first English edition in 2014. Among them are UQ HOLDER!, One-Punch Man and Black Butler. 15 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2014. Among them are Ajin: Demi-Human, Assassination Classroom and Attack on Titan: Before the Fall.
New English manga volumes per month, 2014
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 15 | Released |
| February | 11 | Released |
| March | 8 | Released |
| April | 23 | Released |
| May | 7 | Released |
| June | 9 | Released |
| July | 10 | Released |
| August | 5 | Released |
| September | 9 | Released |
| October | 12 | Released |
| November | 11 | Released |
| December | 11 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2014">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2014</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2014
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 163 | 45.4% |
| Kodansha | 139 | 38.7% |
| Yen Press | 28 | 7.8% |
| Vertical | 19 | 5.3% |
| Seven Seas | 6 | 1.7% |
| Dark Horse | 2 | 0.6% |
| Digital Manga, Inc | 2 | 0.6% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2014">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2014</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2014
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Seas | 9 months | 44.8 months | 5 |
| VIZ Media | 15 months | 50.6 months | 69 |
| Yen Press | 28.5 months | 32.1 months | 24 |
| Kodansha | 37 months | 36.4 months | 27 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2014">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2014</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| All You Need Is Kill | 0 months | 2 |
| Attack on Titan | 4 months | 3 |
| Pandora Hearts | 7.5 months | 2 |
| Bleach | 8 months | 4 |
| Monster Musume | 8 months | 3 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Ball | 282 months | 3 |
| Yu Yu Hakusho | 239 months | 5 |
| Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer | 100 months | 2 |
| Vinland Saga | 67.5 months | 8 |
| Dorohedoro | 62 months | 3 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| UQ HOLDER! | Kodansha | |
| One-Punch Man | VIZ Media | |
| Black Butler | Yen Press | |
| Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign | VIZ Media | |
| Iris Zero | Digital Manga, Inc | |
| All You Need Is Kill | VIZ Media | |
| Terra Formars | VIZ Media | |
| Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer | Seven Seas |
From the license tracker for 2014.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Ajin: Demi-Human | 17 | |
| Assassination Classroom | 21 | |
| Attack on Titan: Before the Fall | 17 | |
| Deadman Wonderland | 13 | |
| Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma | 36 | |
| My Little Monster | 13 | |
| The Seven Deadly Sins | 41 | |
| UQ HOLDER! | 28 | |
| Love★Com | 17 | |
| Strobe Edge | 10 | |
| All You Need Is Kill | 2 | |
| Dawn of the Arcana | 13 | |
| Bokurano: Ours | 11 | |
| Vampire Knight | 19 | |
| The Flowers of Evil | 11 |
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 2014 that left out 228 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 2014. The figures are computed again every day, so they change as the catalog grows.
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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/2014.
Mangainfo. (2014). English Manga Report 2014. https://mangainfo.com/report/2014