Dataset: Obtained from novelupdates.com on Oct 03rd 2019.
The yearly(?) trends report using Novelupdates data. I got the data early October and then … got delayed.
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Category: Meta
| Licensing Party | 2017 | 2018 | Rank Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qidian International | 72 | 142 | 0 |
| Yen Press | 45 | 52 | 0 |
| Gravity Tales | 12 | 46 | 5 |
| Wuxiaworld | 27 | 34 | -1 |
| Volare Novels | 19 | 29 | 1 |
| J-Novel Club | 11 | 27 | 3 |
| June | 19 | 19 | -3 |
| Tokyopop | 19 | 18 | -3 |
| Viz | 15 | 15 | -2 |
| Seven Seas | 9 | 13 | 0 |
Qidian International and Yen Press are still the biggest licensees this
year. A near doubling of Qidian International’s licenses push it far above
every other licensee on the list in terms of growth. Gravity Tales
jumped up five spots, pushing Wuxiaworld out of the top three.
Part VI | Table of Contents | Part VIII Random Statistics and Conclusion
| Original Publisher | 2017 Works | 2018 Works | Rank Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syosetu | 471 | 600 | 0 |
| Qidian | 368 | 527 | 0 |
| jjwxc | 133 | 347 | 0 |
| Ascii Media Works | 125 | 133 | 0 |
| 17k | 80 | 106 | 0 |
| Kadokawa Shoten | 75 | 88 | 0 |
| Munpia | 72 | 86 | 2 |
| zongheng | 60 | 81 | -1 |
| Fujimi Shobo | 74 | 77 | 1 |
| Media Factory | 69 | 75 | -2 |
Note: This values excludes all works with more than one publisher as it
would be double-counting. Green indicates rise in rank, red a decrease in rank.
The top 5 publishers remain the same as last year, though all except
Ascii Media Works show significant growth. Despite the dominance of
Syosetu and Qidian, the publisher with the highest increase is jjwxc, a
Chinese female-oriented webnovel website. Munpia is still the only
Korean publisher on the top 10.
Publisher descriptions
(Please help me improve these! IE focal audience, specializations,
interesting history)
Syosetu: Japanese webnovel website (with both male and female sections)
Qidian: Chinese webnovel website (mainly aimed at male readers. Has merged with Chuangshiand Yunqi.)
jjwxc: Chinese webnovel website (a.k.a Jin Jiang Literature City, mainly
aimed at female readers.)
Ascii Media Works: Japanese magazine publisher (the company publishes
multiple forms of media)
17k: Chinese webnovel website (mainly targeted at male readers)
Kadokawa Shoten: Japanese publisher of novels (and other media)
Munpia: Korean webnovel website (with both male and female sections)
Zongheng: Chinese webnovel website (aimed at male readers and has
recently spun off its own female-oriented website)
Fujimi Shobo: Japanese lightnovel publisher
Media Factory: Japanese lightnovel publisher
Part V How long do you have to wait? | Table of Contents | Part VII Licensing
How many readers try to weigh whether it’s better to only read complete translations or endure all the cliffhangers?
Continue reading “Part V How long do you have to wait for the ending? a.k.a time to completion”
Part II of likely 8. Part I is here.
Continue reading “Part II Exponential growth: Chinese projects soon to overtake Japanese?”
The first part of eight little snippets(?) for this year’s Asian fan translation stats. Starting with the general distribution of languages.
