We are posting this list a little early in the hopes it can be helpful to people making year end lists and the such. We’ve included all anime, manga, artbooks, light novels, and successful crowdfunding projects for the U.S. on our list. We’ll update the list as the month goes on in case companies have some holiday surprises in store.

There were nearly 200 anime licensed or rescued in 2013, pretty incredible. And almost half of those were from Sentai Filmworks. Big light novel pick-ups were some of the surprises this year as well as AnimeSols dedication to bringing us classic anime. As for manga, we got over 150 titles this year! And Seven Seas wins the prize for licensing the most manga based on Alice in Wonderland.

As always, let us know if we missed anything.

Successful Crowdfunding Projects

• Black Angels – Manga Reborn
• Black Jack TV (Part 1, Part 2) – AnimeSols
• Bubblegum Crisis – AnimEigo
• Creamy Mami (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) – AnimeSols
• Dear Brother (Part 1, Part 2) – AnimeSols
• Dokkouren – Manga Reborn
• A Fujoshi’s Guide to Japanese (vol. 2) – Otome’s Way
• Hisoka Returns! – Manga Reborn
• Hiuri – Manga Reborn
• Little Witch Academia 2 – Studio Trigger
• Low Teen Blues – Manga Reborn
• Metal Black – Manga Reborn
• New Give My Regards to Black Jack – Manga Reborn
• The Old Testament – Manga Reborn
• The Raving Warrior: Suima-kun – Manga Reborn
• Shagara – Manga Reborn
• Someone Comes to Kill Me – Manga Reborn
• Time of EVE – Pied Piper, DIRECTIONS, Studio Rikka
• Wandering Son (vol. 7) – Fantagraphics

Anime

• .hack//G.U. Trilogy – Funimation
• .hack//Legend Of The Twilight – Funimation
• .hack//Roots – Funimation
• .hack//SIGN – Funimation
• 009 Re:Cyborg – Funimation
• Accel World (shorts) – VIZ
• AKB0048 – Sentai Filmworks
• AMNESIA – Sentai Filmworks
• Angel Links – Funimation
• Argento Soma – Sentai Filmworks
• Attack on Titan – Funimation
• Banner of the Stars – Funimation
• Banner of the Stars II – Funimation
• Betterman – Sentai Filmworks
• Beyond the Boundary – Sentai Filmworks
• The Big O (S1, S2) – Sentai Filmworks
• Black Magic M-66 – Sentai Filmworks
• Blessing of the Campanella – Right Stuf
• Blood Lad – VIZ
• Blue Sunmarine No.6 – Discotek
• Brain Powered – Sentai Filmworks
• Card Captor Sakura (movie) – Discotek
• Casshan – Sentai Filmworks
• Cat’s Eye – Right Stuf
• A Certain Magical Index II – Funimation
• A Certain Magical Index the Movie – Funimation
• Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion – Funimation
• Code Geass: Akito the Exiled – Funimation
• Colorful ~ The Motion Picture – Sentai Filmworks
• Cowboy Bebop – Funimation
• Crest of the Stars – Funimation
• Cybersix – Discotek
• Dallos – Discotek
• Danguard Ace: The Movie Collection – Shout! Factory
• The Devil is a Part-Timer! – Funimation
• Devil Survivor 2: The Animation – Sentai Filmworks
• Devilman (TV) – Discotek
• Di Gi Charat (TV, OVAs, Special) – Sentai Filmworks
• Diabolik Lovers – Sentai Filmworks
• Digimon Frontier – New Video Group
• Divergence Eve – Sentai Filmworks
• DNA^2 – Discotek
• Dog & Scissors – Sentai Filmworks
• Dr. Slump (movies) – Discotek
• Dragon Half – Discotek
• The Eccentric Family – NISA
• Elfen Lied (TV, OVA) – Sentai Filmworks
• Escaflowne: The Movie – Funimation
• Eureka Seven – Funimation
• Evangelion 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo – Funimation
• The Everyday Tales of a Cat God – NISA
• Familiar of Zero S1 – Sentai Filmworks
• Fantasista Doll – Sentai Filmworks
• Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture – Discotek
• Fatal Fury OVA – Discotek
• Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA – Sentai Filmworks
• The Flowers of Evil -Sentai Filmworks
• Fight Ippatsu! Juden-chan!! – Media Blasters
• From Up on Poppy Hill – GKids and Cinedigm
• The Garden of Words – Sentai Filmworks
• Gargantia of the Verderous Planet – VIZ
• Gatchaman (TV, OVA) – Sentai Filmworks
• Gatchaman Crowds – Sentai Filmworks
• Genshiken Second Season – NISA
• Ghost in the Shell: Arise – Funimation
• Ghost Stories – Discotek
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Space – Sentai Filmworks
• Godannar – Sentai Filmworks
• Golden Time – Sentai Filmworks
• Gunbuster 2: Diebuster – Discotek
• Hakkenden: Eight Dogs of the East (S1, S2)– Sentai Filmworks
• Hal – Funimation
• Hanasaku Iroha (TV, movie) – NISA
• HENNEKO – The Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat – Sentai Filmworks
• Hetalia The Beautiful World – Funimation
• Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls S2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Infinite Ryvius – Sentai Filmworks
• Infinite Stratos 2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Jin-Roh – Discotek
• K – VIZ
• Kamisama Kiss – Funimation
• K-ON! (movie) – Sentai Filmworks
• Kampfer: Fur Die Liebe – Sentai Filmworks
• Kill La Kill – Aniplex USA
• Kill Me Baby – Sentai Filmworks
• KINMOZA! – Sentai Filmworks
• Koe de Oshigoto! – Media Blasters
• Kurokami The Animation – Sentai Filmworks
• Ladies Versus Butlers! – Media Blasters
• A Letter to Momo – GKids and Cinedigm
• Leviathan: The Last Defense~ – Sentai Filmworks
• Lily C.A.T. – Discotek
• Little Busters! – Sentai Filmworks
• Little Busters! Refrain – Sentai Filmworks
• Little Witch Academia – acttil
• Log Horizon – Sentai Filmworks
• Looking Up At The Half-Moon – Crimson Star Media
• Love Love? – Sentai Filmworks
• Lupin III: Bye Bye Liberty Crisis – Discotek
• Magical Play – Sentai Filmworks
• Majestic Prince – Sentai Filmworks
• Mardock Scramble: Third Exhaust – Sentai Filmworks
• Marine Boy – Warner Bros. Archives
• Mega Man – Discotek
• Meganebu! – Sentai Filmworks
• Mighty Space Miners – Discotek
• Mobile Police Patlabor (TV, OVA) – Sentai Filmworks
• Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn – Right Stuf
• Momo, Girl God of Death ~ Ballad of a Shinigami – Sentai Filmworks
• Monster Rancher – Discotek
• My-HiME – Funimation
• My-Otome – Funimation
• My-Otome 0~S.ifr~ – Funimation
• My-Otome Zwei – Funimation
• My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU – Sentai Filmworks
• Myself; Yourself – Sentai Filmworks
• Nadia: Secret of Blue Water – Sentai Filmworks
• Nagi no Asukara – NISA
• Nekomonogatari – Aniplex USA
• New Dominion Tank Police – Sentai Filmworks
• Okamikakushi ~ Masque of the Wolf – Sentai Filmworks
• Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams – Media Blasters
• Oreimo S2 – Aniplex USA
• Oreshura – Aniplex USA
• Outbreak Company – Sentai Filmworks
• Outlaw Star – Funimation
• Overman King Gainer – Sentai Filmworks
• Passage of the Stars: Birth – Funimation
• Phi Brain Puzzle of God S3 – Sentai Filmworks
• Photo Kano – Sentai Filmworks
• Place to Place – Sentai Filmworks
• Pokemon the Movie: Kyurem VS. The Sword of Justice – VIZ
• Princess & The Pilot – NISA
• Princess Nine – Right Stuf
• Psychic Detective Yakumo – Sentai Filmworks
• PSYCHO-PASS – Funimation
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 1: Beginnings – Aniplex USA
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part 2: Eternal – Aniplex USA
• Ringing Bell – Discotek
• Rio Rainbow Gate – Media Blasters
• Royal Space Force – Sentai Filmworks
• Rozen Maiden Zuruckspulen – Sentai Filmworks
• Ruin Explorers – Sentai Filmworks
• s-CRY-ed – Sentai Filmworks
• Sacred Seven – Sentai Filmworks
• Saint Seiya (TV) (dub 1-73) – New Video Group
• Samurai Flamenco – Aniplex USA
• Sasami-san@Ganbaranai – Sentai Filmworks
• Sengoku Collection – Right Stuf
• Senran Kagura – Funimation
• Servant x Service – Aniplex USA
• The Severing Crime Edge – Sentai Filmworks
• Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan – Sentai Filmworks
• Silver Spoon – Aniplex USA
• Space Adventure Cobra (TV) – Right Stuf
• Space Battleship Yamato 2199 – Voyager Entertainment
• Starzinger: The Movie Collection – Shout! Factory
• Stella Women’s Academy: High School Division Class C3 – Sentai Filmworks
• Sunday Without God – Sentai Filmworks
• Super Robot Wars OG: The Animation – Media Blasters
• Super Robot Wars OG: Divine Wars – Media Blasters
• Tales of the Abyss – Funimation
• Tamako Market – Sentai Filmworks
• Tegami Bachi: Reverse – Sentai Filmworks
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann – Aniplex USA
• Tenjho Tenge – Discotek
• This Boy Caught a Merman – Sentai Filmworks
• Time Bokan: Royal Revival – Sentai Filmworks
• Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 – Sentai Filmworks
• Ultimate Girls – Media Blasters
• Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 1000% – Sentai Filmworks
• Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 2000% – Sentai Filmworks
• Valvrave the Liberator – Aniplex USA
• The Vision of Escaflowne – Funimation
• Vividred Operation – Aniplex USA
• WATAMOTE ~No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys Fault I’m Not Popular!~ – Sentai Filmworks
• The Wind Rises – Disney
• Witch Hunter Robin – Funimation
• Working!! S2 – NISA
• Yami to Boshi to Hon no Tabibito – Media Blasters
• Yu-Gi-Oh! (S1, S2) – New Video Group
• Yumeria – Sentai Filmworks
• Yuruyuri – NISA
• Yuyushiki – Sentai Filmworks
• Z-Mind – Sentai Filmworks
• Zatch Bell – New Video Group
• Zegapain – Sentai Filmworks

Manga

• Alice in the Country of Clover: Knight’s Knowledge – Seven Seas
• Alice in the Country of Clover: March’s Hare – Seven Seas
• Alice in the Country of Clover: Nightmare – Seven Seas
• Alice in the Country of Diamonds: Wonderful Wonder World Official Visual Fan Book – Yen Press
• Alice in the Country of Hearts: Love Labyrinth of Thorns – Seven Seas
• Alice in the Country of Hearts: The Mad Hatter’s Late Night Tea Party – Seven Seas
• Alice in the Country of Joker: Nightmare – Seven Seas
• Alice Love Fables: Toy Box – Seven Seas
• All You Need is Kill – VIZ
• Ani-Imo – Yen Press
• Android Angels – GEN Manga
• Anomal – GEN Manga
• Apple & Honey – DMP
• Aqua Bless – DMP
• Arpeggio of Blue Steel – Seven Seas
• Attack on Titan: Before the Fall – Kodansha USA
• Attack on Titan: Junior High – Kodansha USA
• Attack on Titan: No Regrets – Kodansha USA
• Battle Royale: Angels’ Border – VIZ
• Bench – VIZ
• Black Bard – One Peace Books
• Black Rose Alice – VIZ
• Bloody Brat – Yen Press
• Bloody Cross – Yen Press
• Cardfight!! Vanguard – Vertical Inc.
• A Centaur’s Life – Seven Seas
• Club for Cross Dressers – DMP
• Coffin of Cerebrum – DMP
• The Crater – Kansai Club Publishing
• Crimson Spell – VIZ
• Cute Devil Girlfriend – DMP
• D-Frag! – Seven Seas
• Dance in the Vampire Bund: The Memories of Sledgehammer – Seven Seas
• Deadman Wonderland – VIZ
• Demon from a Foreign Land – Yen Press
• Disciplinarian – DMP
• Dragonar Academy – Seven Seas
• Dragonball (full-color) – VIZ
• Fetishisms with Dignity – DMP
• Flavor – GEN Manga
• Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma – VIZ
• For Our Farewell Is Near – Kodansha USA
• From the New World – Vertical Inc.
• Fruitful Body – DMP
• A Fujoshi’s Guide to Japanese (vol. 1) – Otome’s Way
• Furari – Ponent Mon/Fanfare
• Gakuen Polizi – Seven Seas
• Gangsta – VIZ
• Gay Erotic Manga And The Men Who Make It – PictureBox
• Girls und Panzer – Seven Seas
• Gold Pollen and Other Stories – PictureBox
• Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends – Club Minutes – Seven Seas
• Haganai: I Don’t Have Many Friends – Now With 50% More Fail! – Seven Seas
• Happy Marriage?! – VIZ
• Hard Temptation – DMP
• Hentai Fantasy: School Girls – DMP
• Her Sensitive Spot – DMP
• He’s My Only Vampire – Yen Press
• High School DxD – Yen Press
• Holy Knight – DMP
• I Am Alice: Bodyswap in Wonderland – Seven Seas
• I’m Coming with You! – DMP
• I’m Not Your Maid!! – DMP
• In the Clothes Named Fat – Vertical Inc.
• Insufficient Direction – Vertical Inc.
• Into Illusion – VIZ
• Inu × Boku SS – YEN Press
• Jaco the Galactic Patrolman – VIZ
• Kingdrom Hearts II – YEN Press
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days – YEN Press
• Kingdom Hearts Final Mix – YEN Press
• Kintoki – VIZ
• The Last of the Mohicans – PictureBox
• Lost Letters – VIZ
• Love in Hell – Seven Seas
• Love Story of a Kinky Girl – DMP
• Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer – Seven Seas
• Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic – VIZ
• Makai Oji: Devils and Realist – Seven Seas
• Man of Tango – VIZ
• Manga Guide to Physiology – No Starch Press
• Manga Guide to Regression Analysis – No Starch Press
• Mario – VIZ
• Midnight Secretary – VIZ
• Monster Musume – Seven Seas
• Monster Soul – Kodansha USA
• A Murmur of the Heart – DMP
• My Little Monster – Kodansha USA
• My Love Story!! – VIZ
• My Pretty Idol Girlfriend – DMP
• The Mysterious Underground Men – PictureBox
• Nametate Apple Pie – DMP
• Naughty Wives – DMP
• New Lone Wolf and Cub – Dark Horse
• NightS – VIZ
• Nijigahara Holograph – Fantagraphics
• No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular! – YEN Press
• Not Enough Time to Pull It Out – DMP
• Nurse’s Sweet Naked Truth – DMP
• One is Enough – GEN Manga
• One Piece: Strong World 1-shot – VIZ
• One-Punch Man – VIZ
• Otome’s Way Anthology 1 – Otome’s Way
• Perfect Training – VIZ
• Phantom Thief Jeanne – VIZ
• Pink – Vertical Inc.
• Pokemon: HeartGold SoulSilver – VIZ
• Pretty Men Fighting Dirty – VIZ
• Pretty Please – DMP
• Princess Lucia – DMP
• Prophecy – Vertical Inc.
• Psycho – GEN Manga
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Different Story – Yen Press
• Rinsou – Otome’s Way
• Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai – DMP
• Sakuran – VIZ
• Say I Love You – Kodansha USA
• Senran Kagura: Skirting Shadows – Seven Seas
• Seraph of the End – VIZ
• Sherlock Bones – Kodansha USA
• Showa: A History of Showa Japan – Drawn & Quarterly
• Sickness Unto Death – Vertical Inc.
• The Seven Deadly Sins – Kodansha USA
• Smuggler – One Peace Books
• Spell of Desire – VIZ
• Stones of Power – GEN Manga
• Strike Witches – Seven Seas
• Strike Witches: 1937 Fuso Sea Incident – Seven Seas
• Strike Witches: Maidens in the Sky – Seven Seas
• Strike Witches: One-Winged Witches – Seven Seas
• Strike Witches: The Sky that Connects Us – Seven Seas
• Summer Wars – Vertical Inc.
• Sweet Emotions – DMP
• Sweet Monster – VIZ
• Sweet Rein – VIZ
• Sword Art Online: Aincrad – Yen Press
• Sword Art Online: Fairy Dance – Yen Press
• Tableau Numéro 20 – VIZ
• The Tale of Boobs: Chichi Monogatari – DMP
• Terra Formars – VIZ
• Tiger & Bunny: The Beginning – VIZ
• Time Killers: Kazue Kato – VIZ
• Tropic of the Sea – Vertical Inc.
• UQ Holder – Kodansha USA
• Vagina Manifesto – DMP
• Voice Over!: Seiyuu Academy – VIZ
• Void’s Enigmatic Mansion – Yen Press
• A Waltz in the Clinic – DMP
• What Did You Eat Yesterday? – Vertical Inc.
• Whispered Words – One Peace Books
• Will You Be My Cute Crossdresser? – DMP
• Witchcraft – DMP
• Wolf Children – YEN Press
• Wolf Magic – DMP
• World Map Room – PictureBox
• World Trigger – VIZ
• World War Blue – Seven Seas
• xxxholic Rei – Kodansha USA
• You See, Teacher – DMP
• You’re Too Hot for Me – DMP
• Zero’s Familiar Chevalier – Seven Seas

Artbooks

• The Art of Katsuya Terada – Dark Horse
• The Art of The Wind Rises – VIZ
• Attack on Titan Guidebook: INSIDE – Kodansha USA
• Attack on Titan Guidebook: OUTSIDE – Kodansha USA
• Fate/Stay Night – UDON
• Hatsune Miku: Unofficial Hatsune Mix – Dark Horse
• Intron Depot 5: Battalion – Dark Horse
• Summer Wars: Material Book – UDON

Light Novels

• Accel World – Yen Press
• Attack on Titan: Before the Fall – Vertical Inc.
• Sword Art Online – Yen Press