English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2019
Manga release statistics for 2019: 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 .
396
new English manga volumes in 2019
- new English volumes
- 396
- publishers
- 12
- median from Japan to English
- 20 months
- series new to English
- 29
Mangainfo counts 396 new English manga volumes released in 2019. They belong to 105 series from 12 publishers. 2018 had 393. That is 3 more, a rise of 0.8%.
VIZ Media released the most: 167 volumes, or 42.2% of the year. Seven Seas followed with 85 and Kodansha with 75.
July was the busiest month with 43 volumes. Servamp had the most volumes in one month: 12 in July.
A volume took a median of 20 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 37.6 months. Both figures cover the 270 volumes whose dates in Japan and in English are known at least to the month. J-Novel Club was the fastest of the publishers with 5 or more such volumes, at a median of 8.5 months. Denpa took the longest at 53 months. Attack on Titan moved fastest: a median of 4 months over 3 volumes. Banana Fish had the longest wait: a median of 263 months.
29 series got their first English edition in 2019. Among them are Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro, I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up and Kakuriyo: Bed & Breakfast for Spirits. 14 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2019. Among them are Citrus, I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up and Jujutsu Kaisen.
New English manga volumes per month, 2019
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 26 | Released |
| February | 18 | Released |
| March | 24 | Released |
| April | 22 | Released |
| May | 22 | Released |
| June | 16 | Released |
| July | 43 | Released |
| August | 16 | Released |
| September | 18 | Released |
| October | 25 | Released |
| November | 21 | Released |
| December | 20 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2019">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2019</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2019
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 167 | 42.2% |
| Seven Seas | 85 | 21.5% |
| Kodansha | 75 | 18.9% |
| Yen Press | 38 | 9.6% |
| Denpa | 6 | 1.5% |
| J-Novel Club | 6 | 1.5% |
| Tokyopop | 5 | 1.3% |
| Dark Horse | 4 | 1% |
| Ghost Ship | 4 | 1% |
| One Peace Books | 3 | 0.8% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2019">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2019</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2019
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| J-Novel Club | 8.5 months | 8.3 months | 6 |
| Kodansha | 10 months | 12.8 months | 51 |
| VIZ Media | 20 months | 41 months | 81 |
| Yen Press | 21 months | 29.3 months | 38 |
| Seven Seas | 32.5 months | 45.7 months | 72 |
| Denpa | 53 months | 49.2 months | 6 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2019">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2019</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Attack on Titan | 4 months | 3 |
| How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord | 4 months | 3 |
| The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún | 5 months | 2 |
| The Ancient Magus' Bride | 5.5 months | 2 |
| Waiting for Spring | 6 months | 2 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Banana Fish | 263 months | 5 |
| Elfen Lied | 194 months | 3 |
| Snow White with the Red Hair | 131 months | 3 |
| To Love Ru | 120.5 months | 10 |
| GIRL FRIENDS | 115 months | 3 |
Started in English
From the license tracker for 2019.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Citrus | 10 | |
| I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up | 1 | |
| Jujutsu Kaisen | 30 | |
| Komi Can't Communicate | 37 | |
| I Want to Eat Your Pancreas | 2 | |
| My Solo Exchange Diary | 2 | |
| Girls' Last Tour | 6 | |
| Tsuredure Children | 12 | |
| Memories of Emanon | 1 | |
| Black Torch | 5 | |
| Dorohedoro | 23 | |
| Fire Punch | 8 | |
| Prison School | 28 | |
| To Love Ru | 18 |
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 2019 that left out 125 volumes without a date to the month, 1 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 2019. 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/2019.
Mangainfo. (2019). English Manga Report 2019. https://mangainfo.com/report/2019