Japanese Manga Market Increases By 10.3% In 2021 To 675.9 Billion Yen

The Nationwide Publishing Affiliation and the Institute of Publishing Science introduced on Friday, Feb 25, 2022, that the Japanese manga market gross sales in 2021 have elevated 10.3% year-on-year to 675.9 billion yen, backed by a stable spurt in digital manga gross sales.

The manga market has seen a skyrocketing progress for the second consecutive yr following 2020. With this enhance, the share of manga in your entire home publishing market went as much as 40.4%. It exceeded the 40% mark for the primary time.

Digital manga gross sales have been up 20.3% year-on-year resulting in a market of 411.4 billion yen making up 60.9% within the general home manga market in 2021.

Be aware that the digital market estimate recorded is an “estimate of the quantity paid by the reader,” together with limitless studying, and doesn’t embrace promoting income or digital libraries.

Nonetheless, manga journal gross sales solely totalled to 55.8 billion yen, recording a lack of 11.0 p.c yr on yr. The sector skilled a double-digit fall for the third yr in a row. In consequence, the entire paper manga market shrank by 264.5 billion yen (down 2.3 p.c year-on-year).

Alternatively, manga volumes noticed a 0.4% year-on-year enhance totaling gross sales to 208.7 billion yen. The large growth which began with Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in 2020 continued to carry the momentum with the rise of recent hits like Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen and Ken Wakui‘s Tokyo Revengers made out there on manga app providers in 2021.

The recognition of Japanese manga has been on an increase within the west too as manga gross sales made up over 76% of gross sales by quantity of the general comics and graphic novel class in the US in 2021.

Though the Japanese manga business noticed a file excessive quantity final yr, it additionally grossed a lack of 1.19 trillion yen (roughly US$8.76 billion) in 2021 on account of unlawful consumption through piracy websites.

ABJ reported in December 2021, that the month-to-month visits of the highest 3 pirate manga websites elevated 26 occasions in the course of the pandemic in comparison with 2020.

After the collapse of the manga piracy web site Mangamura in April 2018, Manga Financial institution emerged as the largest manga pirate web site in Japan.

In June 2021, Romi Hoshino a.ok.a. Zakay Romi, the alleged administrator of now-closed manga piracy web site Mangamura, was arrested on copyright costs in 2019 after a worldwide manhunt.

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