Category: Japan
A Major Shift in the English-Language Manga Market As Media Do Holdings Acquires Seven Seas Entertainment for $80 Million
Japanese publisher Media Do acquires Seven Seas Entertainment for $80M, sparking AI translation concerns in the growing English-language manga market.
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Saudi Manga Powerhouse Claims Japan’s Top Creative Honour
Saudi Arabia’s Manga Productions and Manga Arabia win Japan’s CJPF Grand Prize, marking a milestone for Middle Eastern creative content in global manga markets.
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A Major Shift in the English-Language Manga Market As Media Do Holdings Acquires Seven Seas Entertainment for $80 Million
Japanese digital publisher Media Do Holdings acquires Seven Seas Entertainment for $80 million, sparking debate over AI translation integration in manga localisation.
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Japan’s Manga Market Contracts as Print Collapse Outpaces Digital Gains
Japan’s manga market falls 1.7% to ¥693bn in 2025, ending eight-year growth streak as print sales collapse 14.4% and digital growth stalls at 2.9%.
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Japan’s Content Industry: From Cultural Superpower to Economic Pillar
Japan boosts content industry budget to ¥35bn, targeting ¥20tn overseas sales by 2033. New policies address piracy, AI translation and creator working conditions amid global competition.
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Manga Publishing’s Strategic Pivot to India
Analysis of Yoshitoki Ōima’s India tour as a strategic publishing play by Japanese stakeholders targeting institutional gatekeepers and emerging market share.
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AnimeJapan 2026: Unprecedented Business Opportunities for Publishing Professionals
AnimeJapan 2026 offers publishing professionals unprecedented access to licensing deals and market insights at Tokyo Big Sight, 30-31 March, following record-breaking public days.
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Adjusted For Inflation – the Worrying Reality Behind Industry Statistics
My guess is that, behind closed boardroom doors, inflation is considered – else we’d see far more companies fail – but the “real” figures do not make for good industry headlines.
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TokyoPop and Mattel Partner for Manga-Style Barbie and Hot Wheels Graphic Novels
As a teacher now, I know most kids would rather read a real novel about toys and TV characters they know and love, than a poorly ghostwritten kids’ story fronted by a TV celebrity their parents like.
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Japan’s AI-Powered Anti-Piracy Initiative: Protecting Manga and Anime
Using AI to combat piracy? An outrageous idea. A slippery slope. The thin edge of the wedge. Once we start looking objectively at AI instead of taking every opportunity to demonise it, where will it end?
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Sony to expand investment in Japan’s Kadokawa with 50 billion yen, 20 billion of which will be used to to ‘create, develop and acquire new IP
We are witnesses to, and participants in, a New Global Renaissance quite unparalleled in human history, and the era of AI will help that renaissance shift up a gear as it liberates human creativity and potential.
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Along Came A Spider-Manga – east meets west in a new comics collaboration
The Manga will be released simultaneously in English on Viz Media’s Viz Manga app starting August 13 (U.S. time) and in Japan by Shogakukan on August 14 (Japan time).
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