Is it Licensed? How many volumes? Ask the GN Comparison Chart!

[Chris Beveridge]

Two common questions that come up in this forum are "Is this title licensed yet?" and "How many volumes is this title?" All of the information (and more!) is compiled into one handy resource: the Graphic Novel Comparison Chart !

The Graphic Novel Comparison Chart is designed to serve as a resource for people buying US published graphic novels of Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua. The main intent is to provide a list of titles that are both published and have completed their publishing run while listing how many volumes there are in the US run and noting how many there are in the Japanese (or Korean or Chinese as appropriate) run.

There is a lot of information in the chart, and some things may be out of date. In addition, we frequently get news of new titles being licensed. This thread is for all updates to the GN Comparison Chart.

For those wanting to help out, just check out the chart and let us know when something needs to be added or changed. We'd like to make sure that the information there is as complete and correct as possible. There are three general areas of information that need to be checked.

1) Title Additions and Corrections: Please let us know if there are missing titles, incorrect titles, etc.

2) Volume Information: Please check that the Orig Count and US Count are correct. One concern is that many titles are still ongoing in their original release, and we specify that by including a + symbol. Also, any US release that was stopped before completion should have a - symbol. If any of our current information is incomplete or incorrect please let us know.

3) Current Series: In addtion to all of the above, it is useful know which series are still in translation progress. We're indicating this by including a * symbol next to the US Count if translation is still in progress. Did we catch them all or is there something missing?

And of course, any corrections not covered by the above categories are appreciated.

[Draneor]

One thing I noticed:

Aoi House did not originate in JP but EN. Acutally, it seems there is no code for English original. Was that intentional? I know Seven Seas publishes a few titles like that; I can check later if no one else has by the time I get home from work.

[edit[ Same thing applies to Tokyopop's Princess Ai. It seems all English original titles are listed as Japanese in the database.

[Aiia]

JP volume count:
Afterschool Nightmare ended with volume 10.
Air Gear 20+
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order 11+
Beauty Pop 9+ (volume 10 is probably the last since its ended in Japan)
Eden 17+
Flower of Life ended at 4 volumes in Japan
From Eroica with Love 34+
Gakuen Alice 15+
Gatcha gatcha ends at volume 8
Kaze Hikaru 23+
Kiki's Delivery Service (novel) 5+
Kingdom Hearts II 2+
Kino no Tabi 11+
Life 17+
My Heavenly Hockey Club 9+
Nodame Cantabile 19+
Ouran Host Club 12+
Shugo Chara 6+
Skip Beat 18+
S.A. Special A 12+
Suppli 6+
Tail of the Moon ended at volume 15
Tenjho Tenge 18+
Vampire Knight 7+
Velvet Blue Rose is still being released in Japan (11+)
Wild Adapter 6+
Your and My Secret (now being released by TP, not by ADV) 4+
Wild Ones (Arakure) 6+

Finished their american release:
Alchohol, Shirt and Kiss
Angel Sanctuary
Anne Freaks
Another Death Note
Beautiful People
Cain Saga
Close the last door
Day of revolution
Dead End
Delivery Cupid
Doll
God Child
Hands off
Haunted House
Ka Shin Fu
Little Butterfly
Menkui
Millenium Snow
Night of the Beasts
Ohikkoshi
Our Everlasting
Paradise on the Hill
Recipe for Gertrude
Rin
Solfege
Soul Rescue
Tenshi Ja'nai
Tennen Pearl Pink
Time Lag
Yumekira Dream Shoppe (name is also misspelt as "yumeyume")

Other:
Petshop of Horrors Tokyo is listed twice, and one of the posts has a faulty book count (4-4)
Sand Chronicles US release is still ongoing

[Chris Beveridge]

Working through all of these now, should be done soon, thanks!

[Andrew Cunningham]

Tokyopop has not announced Banner of the Stars novels.
Blue Dragon/Ral Grad is complete at 4 - you've got it under both, so probably just drop the Blue Dragon entry.

There are 15 Boogiepop novels currently.
60 volumes for Case Closed
Calling You has a novel as well.
Eyeshield 21 is up to 28
Gintama to 22
Gosick is 6 volumes, with 3 volumes of Gosicks; Tokyopop has three of the original series.
Hellsing has 9 volumes
Magic Moon is translated from the German
Missing; manga is three volumes, novels 13, both complete in Japan.
Muhyo and Roji is up to 16
Naruto to 41
No. 5 is 8 volumes in Japan, and will not be finished here.
Patch of Dreams should probably not have a *
Princess Resurrection has 6 volumes so far
Vagabond has 27

[Mint Chocolate]

I have a suggestion for the Comparison Chart. Can we have a filter for novels only (in addition to Manga Only, Manhwa Only, etc.)? That would be really handy

(I thought about suggesting this in the Feedback Forum but decided to use this thread instead.)

[swanjun]

Volume Counts:
Cipher - ends at 11 (according to CMX's site)

Done Serialization:
Canon
The Devil Does Exist
Gals!
Omukae desu.
Pieces of a Spiral
Seimaden

Dupes:
The Empty Empire / The Empty Castle

[swanjun]

Volume Counts:
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden - 8+ (coming out this month)
Love*Com (listed as Love Con) - ends at 17
Prince of Tennis - 41+ (42 will be its last, looks like)

Done Serialization:
Backstage Prince
Backstage Prince 2
Be With You (and the novel, too)
Busou Renkin
Cheeky Angel
Firefighter!

And possibly:
Descendants of Darkness (All the material that got collected into a tank in Japan has been published here.)

[Chris Beveridge]

Originally Posted by swanjun

Volume Counts:
Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden - 8+ (coming out this month)
Love*Com (listed as Love Con) - ends at 17
Prince of Tennis - 41+ (42 will be its last, looks like)

Done Serialization:
Backstage Prince
Backstage Prince 2
Be With You (and the novel, too)
Busou Renkin
Cheeky Angel
Firefighter!

And possibly:
Descendants of Darkness (All the material that got collected into a tank in Japan has been published here.)

All set.

[Chris Beveridge]

Originally Posted by swanjun

Volume Counts:
Cipher - ends at 11 (according to CMX's site)

Done Serialization:
Canon
The Devil Does Exist
Gals!
Omukae desu.
Pieces of a Spiral
Seimaden

Dupes:
The Empty Empire / The Empty Castle

All updated as well.