English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2022
Manga release statistics for 2022: 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 .
510
new English manga volumes in 2022
- new English volumes
- 510
- publishers
- 14
- median from Japan to English
- 16 months
- series new to English
- 41
Mangainfo counts 510 new English manga volumes released in 2022. They belong to 169 series from 14 publishers. 2021 had 442. That is 68 more, a rise of 15.4%.
VIZ Media released the most: 153 volumes, or 30% of the year. Kodansha followed with 131 and Seven Seas with 85.
May was the busiest month with 37 volumes. Summertime Rendering had the most volumes in one month: 4 in June.
A volume took a median of 16 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 23.9 months. Both figures cover the 370 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. Udon Entertainment took the longest at 43.5 months. A Condition Called Love moved fastest: a median of 5 months over 3 volumes. Alice in Borderland had the longest wait: a median of 117.5 months.
41 series got their first English edition in 2022. Among them are Alice in Borderland, Chained Soldier and Kowloon Generic Romance. 16 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2022. Among them are Alice in Borderland, Inside Mari and Love Me, Love Me Not.
New English manga volumes per month, 2022
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 28 | Released |
| February | 21 | Released |
| March | 25 | Released |
| April | 34 | Released |
| May | 37 | Released |
| June | 35 | Released |
| July | 31 | Released |
| August | 29 | Released |
| September | 28 | Released |
| October | 31 | Released |
| November | 36 | Released |
| December | 35 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2022">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2022</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2022
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| VIZ Media | 153 | 30% |
| Kodansha | 131 | 25.7% |
| Seven Seas | 85 | 16.7% |
| Yen Press | 84 | 16.5% |
| J-Novel Club | 18 | 3.5% |
| One Peace Books | 14 | 2.7% |
| Udon Entertainment | 6 | 1.2% |
| One Peace Ebooks | 5 | 1% |
| Square Enix | 4 | 0.8% |
| Yen Audio | 4 | 0.8% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2022">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2022</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2022
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kodansha | 9 months | 19.5 months | 119 |
| VIZ Media | 14 months | 25.8 months | 87 |
| J-Novel Club | 17.5 months | 18.7 months | 18 |
| Seven Seas | 19 months | 23.8 months | 78 |
| Yen Press | 21 months | 25.7 months | 40 |
| One Peace Books | 28 months | 29.2 months | 11 |
| Udon Entertainment | 43.5 months | 43.7 months | 6 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2022">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2022</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| A Condition Called Love | 5 months | 3 |
| An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride | 5 months | 2 |
| Tokyo Revengers | 5 months | 5 |
| Girlfriend, Girlfriend | 5 months | 5 |
| We're New at This | 5.5 months | 2 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Alice in Borderland | 117.5 months | 6 |
| Cheeky Brat | 89 months | 3 |
| The Fable | 77 months | 9 |
| Chihayafuru | 71 months | 5 |
| Overlord | 70 months | 5 |
Started in English
From the license tracker for 2022.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Alice in Borderland | 18 | |
| Inside Mari | 9 | |
| Love Me, Love Me Not | 12 | |
| Love Me for Who I Am | 5 | |
| Living-Room Matsunaga-san | 11 | |
| Platinum End | 14 | |
| Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku | 13 | |
| Death Note Short Stories | 1 | |
| Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku | 11 | |
| New Game! | 13 | |
| APOSIMZ | 9 | |
| A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow | 9 | |
| Look Back | 1 | |
| Black Paradox | 1 | |
| I Can't Believe I Slept With You! | 3 | |
| DARLING in the FRANXX | 8 |
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 2022 that left out 140 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 2022. 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/2022.
Mangainfo. (2022). English Manga Report 2022. https://mangainfo.com/report/2022