English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2021
Manga release statistics for 2021: 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 .
442
new English manga volumes in 2021
- new English volumes
- 442
- publishers
- 10
- median from Japan to English
- 16 months
- series new to English
- 43
Mangainfo counts 442 new English manga volumes released in 2021. They belong to 151 series from 10 publishers. 2020 had 440. That is 2 more, a rise of 0.5%.
VIZ Media released the most: 153 volumes, or 34.6% of the year. Kodansha followed with 149 and Seven Seas with 68.
July was the busiest month with 53 volumes. Ranma ½ had the most volumes in one month: 20 in July.
A volume took a median of 16 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 39 months. Both figures cover the 382 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 13 months. One Peace Books took the longest at 31 months. I’m in Love with the Villainess moved fastest: a median of 3.5 months over 2 volumes. Fist of the North Star had the longest wait: a median of 359 months.
43 series got their first English edition in 2021. Among them are Call of the Night, I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School and Jujutsu Kaisen 0. 16 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2021. Among them are Call of the Night, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and Domestic Girlfriend.
New English manga volumes per month, 2021
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 24 | Released |
| February | 22 | Released |
| March | 26 | Released |
| April | 22 | Released |
| May | 23 | Released |
| June | 32 | Released |
| July | 53 | Released |
| August | 31 | Released |
| September | 36 | Released |
| October | 31 | Released |
| November | 50 | Released |
| December | 32 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2021">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2021</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2021
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 153 | 34.6% |
| Kodansha | 149 | 33.7% |
| Seven Seas | 68 | 15.4% |
| Yen Press | 43 | 9.7% |
| J-Novel Club | 12 | 2.7% |
| One Peace Books | 8 | 1.8% |
| One Peace Ebooks | 4 | 0.9% |
| Square Enix | 3 | 0.7% |
| Denpa | 1 | 0.2% |
| Tokyopop | 1 | 0.2% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2021">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2021</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2021
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kodansha | 13 months | 18.8 months | 142 |
| Seven Seas | 15.5 months | 17.7 months | 60 |
| VIZ Media | 17 months | 82.4 months | 115 |
| J-Novel Club | 19.5 months | 16.8 months | 12 |
| Yen Press | 23 months | 26 months | 43 |
| One Peace Books | 31 months | 37.7 months | 7 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2021">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2021</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| I’m in Love with the Villainess | 3.5 months | 2 |
| A Sign of Affection | 4 months | 2 |
| Attack on Titan | 4 months | 2 |
| A Condition Called Love | 4.5 months | 2 |
| Shangri-La Frontier | 5 months | 3 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Fist of the North Star | 359 months | 2 |
| Ranma ½ | 343.5 months | 20 |
| Detective Conan | 99.5 months | 2 |
| Chihayafuru | 78 months | 6 |
| Daytime Shooting Star | 77 months | 3 |
Started in English
From the license tracker for 2021.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Call of the Night | 20 | |
| Jujutsu Kaisen 0 | 1 | |
| Domestic Girlfriend | 28 | |
| Waiting for Spring | 14 | |
| Daytime Shooting Star | 12 | |
| Blue Flag | 8 | |
| Ranma ½ | 38 | |
| Haikyu!! | 45 | |
| High-Rise Invasion | 21 | |
| Attack on Titan | 34 | |
| Burn the Witch | 1 | |
| Boy Meets Maria | 1 | |
| The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún | 11 | |
| Shaman King | 35 | |
| My Dearest Self With Malice Aforethought | 11 | |
| Sweat and Soap | 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 2021 that left out 60 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 2021. 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/2021.
Mangainfo. (2021). English Manga Report 2021. https://mangainfo.com/report/2021