English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2016
Manga release statistics for 2016: 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 .
297
new English manga volumes in 2016
- new English volumes
- 297
- publishers
- 5
- median from Japan to English
- 18 months
- series new to English
- 14
Mangainfo counts 297 new English manga volumes released in 2016. They belong to 49 series from 5 publishers. 2015 had 307. That is 10 fewer, a drop of 3.3%.
VIZ Media released the most: 143 volumes, or 48.1% of the year. Yen Press followed with 69 and Kodansha with 51.
November was the busiest month with 13 volumes. Spice & Wolf had the most volumes in one month: 6 in March.
A volume took a median of 18 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 35.6 months. Both figures cover the 107 volumes whose dates in Japan and in English are known at least to the month. Kodansha was the fastest of the publishers with 5 or more such volumes, at a median of 6.5 months. Yen Press took the longest at 31 months. Attack on Titan moved fastest: a median of 4 months over 3 volumes. Dragon Ball had the longest wait: a median of 262 months.
14 series got their first English edition in 2016. Among them are Franken Fran, Goodnight Punpun and Happiness. 6 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2016. Among them are Goodnight Punpun, Happiness and I Am a Hero.
New English manga volumes per month, 2016
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 7 | Released |
| February | 7 | Released |
| March | 12 | Released |
| April | 6 | Released |
| May | 7 | Released |
| June | 12 | Released |
| July | 5 | Released |
| August | 8 | Released |
| September | 8 | Released |
| October | 12 | Released |
| November | 13 | Released |
| December | 10 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2016">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2016</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2016
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 143 | 48.1% |
| Yen Press | 69 | 23.2% |
| Kodansha | 51 | 17.2% |
| Dark Horse | 20 | 6.7% |
| Seven Seas | 14 | 4.7% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2016">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2016</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2016
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kodansha | 6.5 months | 8.7 months | 6 |
| Seven Seas | 11 months | 23.9 months | 11 |
| VIZ Media | 17 months | 41.3 months | 55 |
| Yen Press | 31 months | 32.6 months | 33 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2016">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2016</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Attack on Titan | 4 months | 3 |
| Monster Musume | 5 months | 2 |
| Blood Lad | 8.5 months | 2 |
| Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign | 9 months | 3 |
| Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You | 10 months | 3 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Ball | 262 months | 3 |
| Franken Fran | 82 months | 2 |
| Goodnight Punpun | 81 months | 4 |
| Yona of the Dawn | 77 months | 2 |
| Spice & Wolf | 76 months | 6 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Franken Fran | Seven Seas | |
| Goodnight Punpun | VIZ Media | |
| Happiness | Kodansha | |
| I Am a Hero | Dark Horse | |
| Masamune-kun’s Revenge | Seven Seas | |
| NOiSE | Kodansha | |
| the gods lie. | Kodansha | |
| Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun | Yen Press | |
| Spice & Wolf | Yen Press | |
| Haikyu!! | VIZ Media | |
| Platinum End | VIZ Media | |
| Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid | Seven Seas | |
| Scum's Wish | Yen Press | |
| Re:Monster | Seven Seas |
From the license tracker for 2016.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Goodnight Punpun | 13 | |
| Happiness | 10 | |
| I Am a Hero | 22 | |
| NOiSE | 1 | |
| the gods lie. | 1 | |
| Pandora Hearts | 24 |
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 2016 that left out 190 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 2016. 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/2016.
Mangainfo. (2016). English Manga Report 2016. https://mangainfo.com/report/2016