English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2017
Manga release statistics for 2017: 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 .
325
new English manga volumes in 2017
- new English volumes
- 325
- publishers
- 8
- median from Japan to English
- 20 months
- series new to English
- 21
Mangainfo counts 325 new English manga volumes released in 2017. They belong to 64 series from 8 publishers. 2016 had 297. That is 28 more, a rise of 9.4%.
VIZ Media released the most: 133 volumes, or 40.9% of the year. Yen Press followed with 84 and Kodansha with 57.
November was the busiest month with 17 volumes. Maid-sama! had the most volumes in one month: 2 in February.
A volume took a median of 20 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 29.4 months. Both figures cover the 141 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 9 months. Yen Press took the longest at 27 months. Monster Musume moved fastest: a median of 3.5 months over 2 volumes. To Love Ru had the longest wait: a median of 128 months.
21 series got their first English edition in 2017. Among them are Delicious in Dungeon, Dissolving Classroom and Domestic Girlfriend. 12 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2017. Among them are Astra Lost in Space, Children of the Whales and Delicious in Dungeon.
New English manga volumes per month, 2017
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 15 | Released |
| February | 8 | Released |
| March | 9 | Released |
| April | 8 | Released |
| May | 12 | Released |
| June | 9 | Released |
| July | 11 | Released |
| August | 10 | Released |
| September | 11 | Released |
| October | 16 | Released |
| November | 17 | Released |
| December | 15 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2017">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2017</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2017
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 133 | 40.9% |
| Yen Press | 84 | 25.8% |
| Kodansha | 57 | 17.5% |
| Seven Seas | 31 | 9.5% |
| Vertical | 12 | 3.7% |
| Yen On | 6 | 1.8% |
| Denpa | 1 | 0.3% |
| J-Novel Club | 1 | 0.3% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2017">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2017</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2017
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kodansha | 9 months | 67.4 months | 5 |
| Seven Seas | 14.5 months | 38 months | 26 |
| VIZ Media | 16 months | 23.3 months | 58 |
| Yen Press | 27 months | 25 months | 43 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2017">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2017</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Monster Musume | 3.5 months | 2 |
| Attack on Titan | 4 months | 2 |
| The Ancient Magus' Bride | 4 months | 2 |
| The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún | 8 months | 3 |
| Boruto: Naruto Next Generations | 8.5 months | 2 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| To Love Ru | 128 months | 4 |
| To Love Ru Darkness | 78 months | 2 |
| Franken Fran | 61.5 months | 2 |
| Maid-sama! | 54.5 months | 6 |
| Spice & Wolf | 36.5 months | 6 |
Started in English
| Series | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Delicious in Dungeon | Yen Press | |
| Dissolving Classroom | Vertical | |
| Domestic Girlfriend | Kodansha | |
| Erased | Yen Press | |
| Spirit Circle | Seven Seas | |
| Tsuredure Children | Kodansha | |
| Wave, Listen to Me! | Kodansha | |
| The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún | Seven Seas | |
| MURCIÉLAGO | Yen Press | |
| The Ghost in the Shell | Kodansha | |
| Boruto: Naruto Next Generations | VIZ Media | |
| My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness | Seven Seas | |
| Kuzumi-kun, Can't You Read the Room? | Yen Press | |
| Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun | Yen Press | |
| Tokyo Ghoul:re | VIZ Media | |
| To Love Ru | Seven Seas | |
| To Love Ru Darkness | Seven Seas | |
| Inside Mari | Denpa | |
| How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord | J-Novel Club | |
| Goblin Slayer | Yen Press | |
| So I'm a Spider, So What? | Yen Press |
From the license tracker for 2017.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Astra Lost in Space | 5 | |
| Children of the Whales | 23 | |
| Delicious in Dungeon | 14 | |
| Dissolving Classroom | 1 | |
| Erased | 9 | |
| Golden Kamuy | 31 | |
| The Promised Neverland | 20 | |
| Franken Fran | 8 | |
| Blade of the Immortal | 30 | |
| My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness | 1 | |
| Maid-sama! | 18 | |
| Blood Lad | 17 |
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 2017 that left out 184 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 2017. 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/2017.
Mangainfo. (2017). English Manga Report 2017. https://mangainfo.com/report/2017