English Manga Report
English Manga Report 2025
Manga release statistics for 2025: 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 .
775
new English manga volumes in 2025
- new English volumes
- 775
- publishers
- 17
- median from Japan to English
- 18 months
- series new to English
- 58
Mangainfo counts 775 new English manga volumes released in 2025. They belong to 330 series from 17 publishers. 2024 had 723. That is 52 more, a rise of 7.2%.
Seven Seas released the most: 226 volumes, or 29.2% of the year. Kodansha followed with 206 and VIZ Media with 167.
December was the busiest month with 78 volumes. Beat & Motion had the most volumes in one month: 5 in December.
A volume took a median of 18 months to go from its Japanese release to its first English edition. The average was 32.5 months. Both figures cover the 746 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 11 months. Comikey took the longest at 97.5 months. By the Grace of the Gods moved fastest: a median of 1.5 months over 2 volumes. Pet Shop of Horrors had the longest wait: a median of 274 months.
58 series got their first English edition in 2025. Among them are GAEA-TIMA the Gigantis, My New Wife’s Fake Smile and Rainbows After Storms. 27 series finished in English. Their last volume came out in 2025. Among them are I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl, The Duke of Death and His Maid and We're New at This.
New English manga volumes per month, 2025
| Month | Volumes | Status |
|---|---|---|
| January | 58 | Released |
| February | 67 | Released |
| March | 50 | Released |
| April | 65 | Released |
| May | 55 | Released |
| June | 64 | Released |
| July | 54 | Released |
| August | 57 | Released |
| September | 64 | Released |
| October | 63 | Released |
| November | 71 | Released |
| December | 78 | Released |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2025">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2025</a></p>Top English manga publishers by new volumes, 2025
| Publisher | Volumes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Seven Seas | 226 | 29.2% |
| Kodansha | 206 | 26.6% |
| VIZ Media | 167 | 21.5% |
| Yen Press | 97 | 12.5% |
| J-Novel Club | 22 | 2.8% |
| One Peace Books | 15 | 1.9% |
| Comikey | 12 | 1.5% |
| Square Enix | 8 | 1% |
| Tokyopop | 6 | 0.8% |
| Titan | 5 | 0.6% |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2025">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2025</a></p>Months from Japan to English by publisher, 2025
| Publisher | Median | Average | Volumes |
|---|---|---|---|
| J-Novel Club | 11 months | 21.1 months | 22 |
| Kodansha | 13 months | 20.6 months | 197 |
| VIZ Media | 19 months | 50.9 months | 161 |
| Yen Press | 20 months | 24.1 months | 95 |
| Seven Seas | 20 months | 29.4 months | 222 |
| One Peace Books | 33 months | 38.5 months | 15 |
| Square Enix | 46 months | 46.2 months | 6 |
| Comikey | 97.5 months | 98.1 months | 12 |
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<p>Source: <a href="https://mangainfo.com/report/2025">Mangainfo English Manga Report 2025</a></p>Fastest and slowest series from Japan to English
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| By the Grace of the Gods | 1.5 months | 2 |
| Girl Crush | 3.5 months | 4 |
| A Condition Called Love | 4.5 months | 2 |
| Shangri-La Frontier | 5 months | 4 |
| Medalist | 5 months | 2 |
| Series | Median | Volumes |
|---|---|---|
| Pet Shop of Horrors | 274 months | 3 |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean | 261 months | 3 |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 7-Steel Ball Run | 244.5 months | 8 |
| The Climber | 200.5 months | 6 |
| As the Gods Will | 150 months | 3 |
Started in English
From the license tracker for 2025.
Finished in English
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 2025 that left out 29 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 2025. 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/2025.
Mangainfo. (2025). English Manga Report 2025. https://mangainfo.com/report/2025