Not a year goes by without a few surprises. Everyone will remember where they were when they heard that, first, the Legend of the Galactic Heroes novels were licensed, then the anime was licensed mere hours later. Big sports series are finally, finally getting another chance in the U.S. with Kuroko’s Basketball, Haikyu!!, and Yowamushi Pedal manga all being picked up. Yen Press decided to up the light novel game here in the U.S. with long-running titles like Durarara!! and Baccano! among others.

In years past, the ratio of anime to manga licenses was pretty even, but 2015 has seen a sharp departure from that. With a little more than 130 anime licenses, manga easily trounces anime with more than 200 titles picked up. This is probably due to many more digital only releases of manga.

As a reminder, this list does not include streaming-only anime and manga. And as always, let us know if we missed anything.

Successful Crowdfunding Projects

• Alabaster Manga English Release – DMP
• Clockwork Apple and Brave Dan Manga English Release – DMP
• Coluboccoro Anime – Kenji Studio
• Restock Ayano Yamane’s Boys-Love Works in English – DMP
• The Diary of Ochibi-san Short Film – Studio Khara/Dwango
• Otaku no Video Special Edition – AnimEigo
• Red Ash: Magiciada Anime Short – Studio 4C
• SAKIRA’s BL Manga – DMP
• Storm Fairy Manga English Release – DMP

Anime

• 07-Ghost – Discotek
• Amagi Brilliant Park – Sentai Filmworks
• The Anthem of the Heart -Beautiful Word, Beautiful World- – Aniplex USA
• Aoharu x Machinegun – Sentai Filmworks
• Arpeggio Blue Steel – Discotek
• The Asterisk War – Aniplex USA
• Atelier Escha & Logy ~Alchemists of the Dusk Sky~ – Sentai Filmworks
• Attack on Titan: Ilse’s Notebook (OVA bundled with manga) – Kodansha USA
• Aura – Sentai Filmworks
• Beautiful Bones -Sakurako’s Investigation- – Sentai Filmworks
• Beelzebub – Discotek
• Big Windup S2 – RightStuf
• Boruto the Movie – VIZ
• The Boy and the Beast – Funimation
• Captain Harlock (CG movie) – Ketchup Entertainment
• Chivalry of a Failed Knight – Sentai Filmworks
• Comet Lucifer – Sentai Filmworks
• Corpse Party: Tortured Souls – Sentai Filmworks
• Dai-Guard – Discotek
• Darkstalkers – Discotek
• Date a Live II – Funimation
• Death Parade – Funimation
• Diabolik Lovers II: More Blood – Sentai Filmworks
• The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan – Funimation
• Dororo – Discotek
• Dragonar Academy – Funimation
• DRAMAtical Murder – Sentai Filmworks
• The Eden of Grisaia – Sentai Filmworks
• Earl & Fairy – Discotek
• ERASED – Aniplex USA
• Fairy Princess Minky Momo (dub movies) –  William Winckler Productions
• The Familiar of Zero: Rondo of Princesses – Sentai Filmworks
• Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei Herz! – Sentai Filmworks
• Food Wars! – Sentai Filmworks
• Free! – Discotek
• Gaiking – Discotek
• Galilei Donna – Discotek
• Garakowa – Pony Canyon
• The Garden of Sinners/recalled out summer – Aniplex USA
• Gatchaman Crowds Insight – Sentai Filmworks
• Gate: Jiei-tai Ka no Chi ni te Kaku Tatakaeri – Sentai Filmworks
• Getter Robo: Armageddon – Discotek
• Ghost in the Shell ARISE: Alternative Architecture – Funimation
• Giant Gorg – Discotek
• Gourmet Girl Graffiti – Sentai Filmworks
• Guardian Ninja Mamoru – Sentai Filmworks
• Haikyu!! S2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Hamatora – Sentai Filmworks
• Hana Yori Dango (TV and movie) – Discotek
• HaNaYaMaTa – Sentai Filmworks
• Hayate the Combat Butler – Sentai Filmworks
• Hayate the Combat Butler: Cuties – Sentai Filmworks
• Hayate the Combat Butler! Heaven Is a Place on Earth – Sentai Filmworks
• Hello! Kin-iro Mosaic – Sentai Filmworks
• Himouto! Umaru-chan – Sentai Filmworks
• Hunter x Hunter (2011) – VIZ
• ImoCho – Discotek
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? – Sentai Filmworks
• Is the Order a Rabbit?? S2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Jinsei – Life Consulting – Funimation
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure S1 – Warner Home Video
• K: Missing Kings – VIZ
• K: Return of Kings – VIZ
• Karate Master – Discotek
• Knights of Sidonia – Sentai Filmworks
• Kyousougiga – Discotek
• La Corda D’Oro Blue Sky – Sentai Filmworks
• The Labyrinth of Grisaia – Sentai Filmworks
• Lance N’ Masques – Pony Canyon
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes – Sentai Filmworks
• Library Wars – Discotek
• Locodol – Sentai Filmworks
• Lupin III (TV Series 2) – Discotek
• Lupin III: Voyage to Danger – Discotek
• Lupin III VS. Detective Conan (special and movie) – Discotek
• Magic Users Club – Right Stuf
• Monster Musume – Sentai Filmworks
• Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun OVAs – Sentai Filmworks
• My Little Monster – NISA
• My Love Story!! – Sentai Filmworks
• My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO! – Sentai Filmworks
• Night on the Galactic Railroad – Discotek
• Ninja Slayer – Funimation
• No-Rin – Funimation
• Noein – Funimation
• Non Non Biyori Repeat – Sentai Filmworks
• Norn9 – Sentai Filmworks
• One Punch Man – VIZ
• Only Yesterday – GKids
• Parasyte -The Maxim- – Sentai Filmworks
• Patlabor: The Movie – Sentai Filmworks
• Patlabor WXIII – Sentai Filmworks
• The Perfect Insider – Sentai Filmworks
• Persona 3 (movies) – Aniplex USA
• Persona 4 the Golden – Aniplex USA
• Phantasy Star Online 2: The Animation – Sentai Filmworks
• Pita-Ten – RightStuf
• Please Teacher! – Right Stuf
• Please Tell Me! Galko-chan – Seven Seas
• Please Twins! – Right Stuf
• Punch Line – Sentai Filmworks
• Re:_Hamatora – Sentai Filmworks
• Re-Kan! – Sentai Filmworks
• Requiem From the Darkness – Discotek
• RG Veda – Dark Horse
• RIN-NE – Sentai Filmworks
• Robot Carnival – Discotek
• Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers – Pony Canyon
• School-Live! – Sentai Filmworks
• Science Ninja Team Gatchaman – The Movie – Sentai Filmworks
• Seha Girls – Discotek
• Shining Tears X Wind – Discotek
• Show by Rock!! – Funimation
• Sketchbook ~full color’S~ – Right Stuf
• Sonic X – Discotek
• Sound! Euphonium – Pony Canyon
• Speed Racer – Funimation
• Street Fighter II (movie & USA TV series) – Discotek
• Strike the Blood – Discotek
• Student Council’s Discretion Lv.2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Tamayura: Hitotose – RightStuf
• To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness 2nd – Sentai Filmworks
• Tonari no Seki-kun – Sentai Filmworks
• The Town Where You Live – RightStuf
• Triage X – Sentai Filmworks
• The Troubled Life of Miss Kotoura – NISA
• Umi Monogatari – Rightstuf
• Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle – Sentai Filmworks
• Ushio & Tora – Sentai Filmworks
• Uta no Prince-sama – Maji Love Revolutions – Sentai Filmworks
• Utawarerumono OVA – Sentai Filmworks
• Utawarerumono: The False Faces – Sentai Filmworks
• Vampire Hunter D (movie) – Sentai Filmworks
• Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust – Discotek
• Wakaba Girl – Sentai Filmworks
• When Marnie Was There – GKids
• When They Cry – Sentai Filmworks
• Wicked City – Discotek
• Windy Tales – Sentai Filmworks
• Wish Upon the Pleiades – Sentai Filmworks
• The World God Only Knows (OVAs) – Sentai Filmworks
• The World is Still Beautiful – Sentai Filmworks
• Yamishibai – Sentai Filmworks
• Yosuga no Sora – Media Blasters
• Young Black Jack – Sentai Filmworks
  
• Z/X Ignition – Discotek

Manga

• 7th Garden – VIZ
• The Abandoned Sacred Beasts – Vertical Inc.
• AiON – VIZ
• Akame ga KILL! Zero – Yen Press
• Aldnoah.Zero Season One – Yen Press
• Angel Beats!: Heaven’s Door – Seven Seas
• Aoharu x Machinegun – Yen Press
• Aphorism – Yen Press
• Appleseed a – Kodansha USA
• Asterisk War – Yen Press
• Baccano! – Yen Press
• Bakuman: Age 13 – VIZ
  
• Battle Rabbits – Seven Seas
• Beast ♥ Boys – DMP
• Behind the Scenes – VIZ
• Best Blue (ch. 1-3) – VIZ
• Black Bullet – Yen Press
• Black Clover – VIZ
• Black Detective – Yen Press
• Blood-C: Demonic Moonlight – Dark Horse
• Bloody Mary – VIZ
• The Boy and the Beast – Yen Press
• Boys Over Flowers Season 2 – VIZ
• Breaking In – DMP
• Buddy Strike (chs. 1-3) – VIZ
• The Butler’s Secret – DMP
• Capture Me – DMP
• Cat Diary: Yon & Mu – Kodansha USA
• A Certain Scientific Accelerator – Seven Seas
• Chime – DMP
• Chocolate Cosmos – VIZ
• CLAMP School Detectives – VIZ
• Complex Age – Kodansha USA
• Corpse Party – Blood Covered – Yen Press
• Corpse Princess – Yen Press
• Crimson Prince – Yen Press
• Crown of Thorns – VIZ
• Danganronpa: The Animation – Dark Horse
• Dark and Deadly – VIZ
• Deep Pursuit – DMP
• Demon King Ena-sama Goes to a Manga School – Yen Press
• Demonizer Zilch – Yen Press
• Desireable Swimming Boys – DMP
• Devil’s Line – Vertical Inc.
• Devil Survivor – Kodansha USA
• Devily Man (ch. 1-3) – VIZ
• Die Wergelder – Kodansha USA
• Dimension W – Yen Press
• Domesticated Sexual Love – DMP
• Don’t Be Cruel – VIZ
• Don’t Rub Yourself Against My Ass!! – DMP
• Dragon’s Rioting – Yen Press
• Duklyon: CLAMP School Defenders – VIZ
• Durarara!! Re;Dollars – Yen Press
• Eroman- Paper, Pen & Sex – DMP
• Erotic Plan of Love – DMP
• Eureka Seven – VIZ
• Eureka Seven: Gravity Boys & Lifting Girl – VIZ
• Everyone’s Getting Married – VIZ
• Fairy Girls – Kodansha USA
• Fairy Tail: Ice Trail – Kodansha USA
• Fairy Tail Zero – Kodansha USA
• Final Fantasy Type-0 Side Story – Yen Press
• Flower of the Deep Sleep – VIZ
• Folie À Deux – VIZ
• Forget Me Not – Kodansha USA
• Franken Fran – Seven Seas
• Fruits Basket – Yen Press
• Fukufuku Kitten Tales – Vertical Inc.
• GATE – Sekai Project
• Giganto Maxia – Dark Horse
• A Girl on the Shore – Vertical Inc.
• Girls Bravo – VIZ
• Glass Wings – VIZ
• The Gods Lie – Vertical Inc.
• Golden Time – Seven Seas
• Goodnight Pun Pun – VIZ
• Grenadier – VIZ
• Guardian Hearts – VIZ
• Guardians of the Louvre – NBM Publishing
• Haikyu!! – VIZ
• Hanafuda – Fakku Books
• Handa-Kun – Yen Press
• The Heiress and the Chauffeur – VIZ
• Holy Corpse Rising – Seven Seas
• Honey So Sweet – VIZ
• Horimiya – Yen Press
• Horny Development – DMP
• How to Build a Dungeon: Book of the Demon King – Seven Seas
• How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend – Yen Press
• I Am a Hero – Dark Horse
• I Am Space Dandy – Kodansha USA
• I Love You Enough to Tie You Up – DMP
• I Was Abducted by an Elite All-Girls School as a Sample Commoner – Seven Seas
• Idol Dreams – VIZ
• Igai: The Play Dead/Alive – Seven Seas
• Irregular at Magic High School – Yen Press
• Kake Gurui – Yen Press
• Kiss Him, Not Me – Kodansha USA
• Kuroko’s Basketball – VIZ
• Link to the Past – VIZ
• Liselotte & Witch’s Forest – Yen Press
• Livingstone – Kodansha USA
• Log Horizon: West Wind Brigade – Yen Press
• Lord Marksman and Vanadis – Seven Seas
• Love in Hell: Death Life – Seven Seas
• Love Prism – DMP
• Love Trial – DMP
• Magatsuki – Kodansha USA
• Magia the Ninth – Seven Seas
• Man of Many Faces – VIZ
• Maria the Virgin Witch Exhibition – Kodansha USA
• Masamune-kun’s Revenge – Seven Seas
• Memoir of Vanitas – Yen Press
• Merman in My Tub – Seven Seas
• Metamo Kiss – VIZ
• Midnight Stranger – VIZ
• Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid – Seven Seas
• Momogumi Plus Senki – VIZ
• Mononofu (chs. 1-3) – VIZ
  
• Monster Hunter – VIZ
• Monster Musume: I ♥ Monster Girls – Seven Seas
• Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun – Yen Press
• Mushoku Tensei – Seven Seas
• My Girlfriend is a T-Rex – Seven Seas
• My Hero Academia – VIZ
• My Monster Girl’s Too Cool for You – Yen Press
• My Monster Secret – Seven Seas
• My Pathetic Vampire Life – Seven Seas
• Mysterious Girlfriend X – Vertical Inc.
• Naive Seme & Slutty Uke – DMP
• Nichijou – Vertical Inc.
• Ninja Slayer – Vertical Inc.
• Ninja Slayer Kills – Kodansha USA
• Noragami: Stray Stories – Kodansha USA
• Not Lives – Seven Seas
• NTR: Netorare – DMP
• NTR: Netsuzou Trap – Seven Seas
• The Nurse’s Job – DMP
• Obedience for the Selfish Dog – DMP
• Of the Red, the Light and the Ayakashi – Yen Press
• The One I Love – VIZ
• Orange – Seven Seas
• The Osamu Tezuka Story – Stone Bridge Press
• The Other Side of Secret – Seven Seas
• Otherworld Barbara – Fantagraphics
• Overlord – Yen Press
• Paradise Residence – Kodansha USA
• Passionate Lovers – DMP
• Peachy Triangle – DMP
• Persona 4 – UDON
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Side P3 – Kodansha USA
• Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Side P4 – Kodansha USA
• Planetes – Dark Horse
• Play Zone – Carnivorous Boyfriend and Lustful Angel – DMP
• PlaytimeAV – DMP
• Please Tell Me! Galko-chan – Seven Seas
• Pride and Prejudice (Shiei) – Seven Seas
• Princess Jellyfish – Kodansha USA
• Puella Magi Homura Tamura – Yen Press
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica Homura’s Revenge – Yen Press
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie -Rebellion- – Yen Press
• Pure Love’s Chivalrous Spirit – DMP
• Queen Emeraldas – Kodansha USA
• QQ Sweeper – VIZ
• Ratman – VIZ
• Re:Zero – Yen Press
• Real Account – Kodansha USA
• Red Hot Chili Samurai – VIZ
• Renaissance Eve – Yen Press
• The Rest is a Love Thing – DMP
• Riddle Story of Devil – Seven Seas
• The Rising of the Shield Hero – One Peace Books
• Rizelmine – VIZ
• Rose Gun Days Season One – Yen Press
• The Rose of Versailles – Udon
• The Royal Tutor – Yen Press
• Rust Blaster – Yen Press
• S&M Love Sickness – DMP
• Saber Marionette J – VIZ
• Saki – Yen Press
• Sakura no Himegoto – Yen Press
• Samon the Summoner (chs. 1-3) – VIZ
• Scarlet Empire – Yen Press
• School-Live! – Yen Press
• The Science of Attack on Titan – Kodansha USA
• Scumbag Loser – Yen Press
• Sekirei – Yen Press
• Servant X Service – Yen Press
• The Seven Princes of the Thousand Year Labyrinth – Seven Seas
• Shirahime-Syo – VIZ
• Shuriken and Pleats – VIZ
• Shut-In Shoutarou Kominami Takes on the World – Yen Press
• Someday’s Dreamers – VIZ
• Space Dandy – Yen Press
• Spoof on Titan – Kodansha USA
• Stay Gold Love Lessons A-Z – DMP
• Steins;Gate – Udon
• Stop Quibbling About Love – DMP
• Strike the Blood – Yen Press
• Sugar Sugar Rune – Udon
• Sweet Cherry Vibe – DMP
• Sweet Dreams – DMP
• Sword Art Online: Mother’s Rosario – Yen Press
• Sword Art Online: Phantom Bullet – Yen Press
• Ten Count – VIZ
• The Testament of Sister New Devil – Seven Seas
• The Third: Aprentis Girl on the Desert Planet – VIZ
• Today’s Kerberos – Yen Press
• Tokyo ESP – Vertical Inc.
• Tomodachi x Monster – Seven Seas
• Twinkle Stars – Yen Press
• Ultraman – VIZ
• Unhappy Go Lucky! – Yen Press
• Unknown – Yen Press
• Virgin Teacher – DMP
• Wandering Island – Dark Horse
• Welcome to Shika High’s Competitive Dance Club (ch. 1-3) – VIZ
• Welcome to the N.H.K. – VIZ
• What Can You Kill? – VIZ
• When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles – Yen Press
• Wish – VIZ
• Yo-kai Watch – VIZ
• Yona of the Dawn – VIZ
• Yowamushi Pedal – Yen Press
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V – VIZ
• Zyword – VIZ

Artbooks

• Blanc et Noir (Takeshi Obata) – VIZ
• Monster Girl Encyclopedia – Seven Seas
• Senran Kagura: Official Design Works – Udon Entertainment
• Uzumaki Naruto: Illustrations – VIZ

Novels/Light Novels

• Another Episode S – Yen Press
• Asterisk War – Yen Press
• Attack on Titan: Lost Girls – Vertical Inc.
• Baccano! – Yen Press
• Black Bullet – Yen Press
• The Boy and the Beast – Yen Press
• Durarara!! – Yen Press
• Irregular at Magic High School – Yen Press
• Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Sword Oratoria – Yen Press
• Kizumonogatari – Vertical Inc.
• Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse – Seven Seas
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes – VIZ
• My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected – Yen Press
• Naruto: Kakashi’s Story – VIZ
• Naruto: Sakura’s Story – VIZ
• Naruto: Shikamaru’s Story – VIZ
• Overlord – Yen Press
• Pride and Prejudice (Shiei) – Seven Seas
• Psycome – Yen Press
• Re:Zero – Yen Press
• The Rising of the Shield Hero – One Peace Books
• Seraph of the End – Vertical Inc.
• Strike the Blood – Yen Press