English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2023
Manga release statistics for 2023: 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 .
571
new English manga volumes in 2023
- new English volumes
- 571
- publishers
- 18
- median from Japan to English
- 17 months
- series new to English
- 41
Mangainfo counts 571 new English manga volumes released in 2023. They belong to 211 series from 18 publishers. 2022 had 510. That is 61 more, a rise of 12%.
Kodansha released the most: 192 volumes, or 33.6% of the year. VIZ Media followed with 131 and Seven Seas with 112.
September was the busiest month with 60 volumes. Kengan Ashura had the most volumes in one month: 10 in September.
A volume took a median of 17 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 34.7 months. Both figures cover the 474 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 12 months. Comikey took the longest at 119 months. A Condition Called Love moved fastest: a median of 4.5 months over 2 volumes. Pluto had the longest wait: a median of 194.5 months.
41 series got their first English edition in 2023. Among them are Helck, It Takes Two Tomorrow, Too and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean. 18 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2023. Among them are Innocent, BEASTARS and Elfen Lied.
New English manga volumes per month, 2023
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 29 | Released |
| February | 33 | Released |
| March | 30 | Released |
| April | 44 | Released |
| May | 43 | Released |
| June | 35 | Released |
| July | 43 | Released |
| August | 39 | Released |
| September | 60 | Released |
| October | 35 | Released |
| November | 54 | Released |
| December | 29 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2023">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2023</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2023
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kodansha | 192 | 33.6% |
| VIZ Media | 131 | 22.9% |
| Seven Seas | 112 | 19.6% |
| Yen Press | 49 | 8.6% |
| J-Novel Club | 19 | 3.3% |
| One Peace Books | 12 | 2.1% |
| Comikey | 11 | 1.9% |
| Dark Horse | 9 | 1.6% |
| National Geographic Books | 6 | 1.1% |
| Square Enix | 5 | 0.9% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2023">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2023</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2023
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kodansha | 12 months | 24.4 months | 165 |
| VIZ Media | 15 months | 44.4 months | 90 |
| National Geographic Books | 16.5 months | 20.7 months | 6 |
| Yen Press | 18 months | 27 months | 45 |
| Seven Seas | 19 months | 34.2 months | 103 |
| Square Enix | 21 months | 20.8 months | 5 |
| One Peace Books | 31 months | 36.1 months | 8 |
| J-Novel Club | 33 months | 37 months | 19 |
| Comikey | 119 months | 117.5 months | 11 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2023">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2023</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| A Condition Called Love | 4.5 months | 2 |
| Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister | 4.5 months | 4 |
| Am I Actually the Strongest? | 5 months | 3 |
| WIND BREAKER | 5 months | 5 |
| Girlfriend, Girlfriend | 5 months | 4 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Pluto | 194.5 months | 8 |
| Teppu | 157.5 months | 4 |
| Franken Fran | 150.5 months | 2 |
| Wolf Girl and Black Prince | 138.5 months | 2 |
| Last Game | 133 months | 3 |
Started in English
From the license tracker for 2023.
Finished in English
| Series | Volumes | Last volume |
|---|---|---|
| Innocent | 9 | |
| BEASTARS | 22 | |
| Elfen Lied | 12 | |
| orange | 7 | |
| Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 22-26 | 1 | |
| Love After World Domination | 6 | |
| Run Away With Me, Girl | 3 | |
| Sakurai-san Wants to Be Noticed | 4 | |
| Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs | 24 | |
| Tokyo Revengers | 31 | |
| I Belong to the Baddest Girl at School | 7 | |
| Goodbye, Eri | 1 | |
| Ayashimon | 3 | |
| Pluto | 8 | |
| Fire Force | 34 | |
| My Love Mix-Up! | 9 | |
| My Hero Academia: Vigilantes | 15 | |
| Takopi's Original Sin | 2 |
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 2023 that left out 97 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 2023. 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/2023.
Mangainfo. (2023). English Manga Report 2023. https://mangainfo.com/report/2023