Did you buy a volume of manga in 2021? You’re in good company—and a lot of it. According to ICv2, US manga sales went up by more than double in 2021 versus 2020. Specifically, 15 million more units sold in 2021 than 2020, for a …Read more »
The good news is that manga sales are way up in America. The bad news is that supply isn’t always able to keep up with demand. An article at ICv2 interviewed comic book store owners and manga publishers about the issue. “Chainsaw Man [volumes] two …Read more »
ICv2 has been keeping tabs on manga sales starting in 2002, and it just put out a new article that print manga sales in America broke records in 2020 and continue to do well in 2021. The article noted that manga sales had previously peaked …Read more »
ICv2 published a short article tracking American book sales, including graphic novels. It said that graphic novel sales have gone up “dramatically,” and much of the credit goes to manga. “Q1 U.S. book channel graphic novel sales grew by 4 million units over Q1 2020 …Read more »
Japan’s Shuppan Kagaku Kenkyujo (a.k.a. Research institute of publication science) has crunched the numbers and says that print and digital sales of manga in 2020 were phenomenal. Manga brought in more than 600 billion yen (a little under 5.5 billion dollars) during the year, breaking …Read more »
ICv2 is reporting that manga sales grew in the United States last year. “Manga sales were up around 44% in the book channel in 2020, as measured by NPD BookScan, which tracks sales at book chains, mass merchants, large online retailers, and other retailers,” ICv2 …Read more »
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