Media industry news internet station ICv2 reported on Friday on a presentation that Kristen McLean, Senior Govt Director The Circana Entertainment Knowledge Community, made at the ComicsPRO Birth Home tournament on Thursday, which incorporated files about the disclose of the manga industry within the U.S. within the first half of of 2024.
Constant with McLean, manga “and other East Asian style comics, such as manhwa” made up the biggest fragment of graphic recent sales within the 365 days ending in June 2024, but manga also led the decline of graphic novels within the e-book channel.
Manga and manhwa made up 40% of the graphic recent market for the 365 days ending in June 2024. Print manga sales were also down 21% within the first half of of 2024. McLean however speculated that manga fans that “accrued during the pandemic are not going away.”
Manga series that confirmed the biggest growth within the first half of of 2024 incorporated ones with anime diversifications, equivalent to: Jujutsu Kaisen, The Apothecary Diaries, Savory in Dungeon, One Piece: Ace’s Legend–The Manga, Frieren: Previous Hump’s End, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu Academy.
Graphic recent sales overall were down 16% from 2022 to 2023, and down 12% within the first half of of 2024 in comparison with the first half of of 2023. ICv2 attributed to the decline to the put up-pandemic spike of sales leveling off, but renowned with the above numbers that the decline is slowing, and sales are quiet greater than in 2017.
The presentation also renowned that the print e-book market within the U.S. as a total is real, with out a commerce in sales within the first half of of 2024 in comparison with the first half of of 2023. Within the first quarter of 2024, print books made up 64% of the alternate e-book market, audiobooks made up 19%, and ebooks made up 17%.
ICv2’s tubby portray on McClean’s presentation is offered right here.
ICv2 had reported in July that comics and graphic recent sales went down approximately 7% within the US and Canada in 2023. Nonetheless, despite the lower from 2022, comics and graphic recent sales own elevated over 70% from 2019 when it totaled US$1.1 billion.
The Beat reported in February 2022 that manga observed a 171.1% rise in volumes sold in 2021 from the previous 365 days. NPD BookScan’s graphic recent sales figures for 2021 came one day of that the manga subcategory made up 76.71% of the volumes sold within the Grownup Fiction class.
NPD BookScan modified into Circana Books in March 2023, following the merge of NPD Community and Knowledge Resources, Inc. (IRI) in 2022. The firm collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations collectively with e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, impartial bookstores, and more. Circana BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. alternate print e-book market.
Offer: ICv2 (Brigid Alverson)
