Compared to 2015, this is a much more even year for anime and manga licenses with both hovering at 130 and 120 titles. Funnily enough though this is almost exactly the same amount of anime licensed in 2015, it is manga that has dropped down quite a bit. While to us it seemed like light novel acquisitions were flying left and right, the amount of licenses is only a little higher than last year.

We’ve nearly run out of impossible licenses but there were still a few surprises like Den-noh Coil and Chihayafuru. RightStuf’s dedication to Gundam and Discotek’s dedication to Lupin III and other older releases continues to impress. We are still watching the rapid change over of Weekly Shonen Jump titles from VIZ’s Jump Start initiative.

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

Funded Crowdfunding Projects

• Kaze no Yo ni Anime Film
• Kimagure Orange Road Manga English Release
• Mayoiga TV Anime
• MECHA-UDE: Japanese Animation by Sae Okamoto with Oort
• Nekopara OVA
• Riding Bean U.S. Special Edition
• Skip Beat Anime U.S. Release
• Tezuka’s Under the Air, Record of the Glass Castle, The Crater, Melody of Iron Manga English Release
• Vanilla Essence Hentai Manga Anthology English Release
• The Vision of Escaflowne TV New English Dub

Anime

• 8 Man After – Discotek
• Actually, I Am… – DIscotek
• And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online? – Funimation
• Arcadia of My Youth – Discotek
• Attack on Titan (S2) – Funimation
• Attack on Titan: No Regrets (OVA) – Kodansha USA
• Azumanga Daioh – Sentai Filmworks
• B’t X – Anime Midstream
• Bakuon!! – Sentai Filmworks
• BanG Dream! – Sentai Filmworks
• Berserk (2016) – Crunchyroll
• Big Order  – Crunchyroll
• Black Jack the Movie – Discotek
• Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga – Aniplex USA
• Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace – Sentai Filmworks
• Chaika the Coffin Princess S2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Char’s Counterattack – RightStuf
• Charge Man Ken – Discotek
• Chihayafuru – Sentai Filmworks
  
• Clamp School Detectives – Sentai Filmworks
• ClassicaLoid – Sentai Filmworks
• Cobra the Animation – Sentai Filmworks
• Cobra the Animation (OVAs) – Sentai Filmworks
• Cosmo Warrior Zero – Discotek
• Cromartie High School – Discotek
• Crusher Joe: The Movie – Discotek
• Crusher Joe: The OVAs – Discotek
• Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! LOVE! – Ponycan USA
• D.Gray Man – Funimation
• DAYS – Ponycan USA
• Demon Lord Dante – Discotek
• Den-noh Coil – Sentai Filmworks
• The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya – Funimation
• Dragon Ball Super – Funimation
• Drifters – Funimation
• Eat-Man – Discotek
• Eat-Man `98 – Discotek
• Endride – Funimation
• Flip Flappers – Sentai Filmworks
• Flying Witch – Sentai Filmworks
• Free!! – Crunchyroll
• Galaxy Angel – RightStuf
• The Galaxy Railways: A Letter from the Abandoned Planet – Discotek
• Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence – Funimation
• Gintama – Crunchyroll
• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Funimation
• Girlish Number – Sentai Filmworks
• Girls Beyond the Wasteland – Sentai Filmworks
• Girls und Panzer der Film – Sentai Filmworks
• Girls und Panzer: This is the Real Anzio Battle! – Sentai Filmworks
• Gokudo – Discotek
• Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun – Funimation
• Green Legend Ran – Sentai Filmworks
• Gun Frontier – Discotek
• Gunbuster: The Movie – Sentai Filmworks
• Gundam Build Fighters – RightStuf
• Gundam Build Fighters Try – RightStuf
• Gundam: Reconguista in G – RightStuf
• Haikyu!! (S3) – Sentai Filmworks
• Hakuoki: Warrior Spirit of the Blue Sky – Sentai Filmworks
• Hakuoki: Wild Dance of Kyoto – Sentai Filmworks
• Hanakyou Maid Team: La Verite – Sentai Filmworks
• Hatenkou Yugi – Sentai Filmworks
• Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto – Sentai Filmworks
• Izumo: Flash of a Brave Sword – Discotek
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 1&2 – VIZ
• Juden Chan – Media Blasters
• Jungle Emperor Leo – Discotek
• Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress – Crunchyroll
• Key the Metal Idol – Discotek
• Knights of Sidonia S2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Koi Koi Seven – Discotek
• Kumamiko – Funimation
• Kuromukuro – Ponycan USA
• Little Busters EX (OVA) – Sentai Filmworks
• Long Riders! – Sentai Filmworks
• Lost Village – Ponycan USA
• Lupin III: Island of Assassins – Discotek
• Lupin III: Operation Return the Treasure – Discotek
• Lupin III: Part IV – DIscotek
• Magic of Stella – Sentai Filmworks
• March Comes in like a Lion – Aniplex USA
  
• Matoi the Sacred Slayer – Sentai Filmworks
• Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir – Shout! Factory
• Miss Hokusai – GKids
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team – RightStuf
  
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, Miller’s Report – RightStuf
  
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket – RightStuf
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Afterglow of Zeon – RIghtStuf
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory – RIghtStuf
• Mobile Suit Gundam F91 – RIghtStuf
• Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie Trilogy – RightStuf
• Mobile Suit Gundam: MS Igloo –  RightStuf
• Mobile Suit V Gundam – RightStuf
• Momokuri – Sentai Filmworks
• Momotaro, Sacred Sailors – Funimation
• Monster Hunter Stories RIDE ON – Funimation
• My Hero Academia – Funimation
• My Wife is the Student Council President – Media Blasters
• Myriad Colors Phantom World – Crunchyroll
• The Mystic Archives of Dantalian – Funimation
• Nurse Witch Komugi R – Sentai Filmworks
• Occultic;Nine – Aniplex USA
• Omamori Himari – Funimation
• One Piece Film Gold – Funimation
• Onigiri – Sentai Filmworks
• Persona 5 the Animation -The Day Breakers- – Aniplex USA
• Pilot Candidate – Discotek
• Plastic Memories – Aniplex USA
• Psychic School Wars – Funimation
• Ranma 1/2 (OVAs) – VIZ
• Ranma 1/2: Big Trouble in Nekonron, China – VIZ
• Ranma 1/2: Nihao My Concubine – VIZ
• RIN-NE S2 – Sentai Filmworks
• Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi – The World’s Greatest First Love (S1) – Funimation
• Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi – The World’s Greatest First Love (S2) – Funimation
• Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi – The World’s Greatest First Love (OVAs) – Funimation
• Shonen Maid – Funimation
• Show by Rock!! Short!! – Funimation
• Sansha Sanyo – Funimation
• Softenni! – Sentai Filmworks
• Soul Hunter – Discotek
• Squid Girl – Sentai Filmworks
• Strawberry Marshmallow – Sentai Filmworks
• Strawberry Marshmallow (OVAs) – Sentai Filmworks
• Sword of the Stranger – Funimation
• Tanaka-kun is Always Listless – Sentai Filmworks
• True Tears – Discotek
• Twin Star Exorcists – Crunchyroll
• Urara Meirocho – Sentai Filmworks
• Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer – Discotek
• Uta no Prince-sama Legend Star – Sentai Filmworks
• When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace – Sentai Filmworks
• Wind Named Amnesia – Discotek
• Wolf’s Rain – Funimation
• Working!! S3 – Aniplex USA
• Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches – Crunchyroll
• Your Name – Funimation
• Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (S3) – Cinedigm

Manga

• After Hours Yuri – VIZ
• Ahogaru: Clueless Girl – Kodansha USA
• Akashic Records of the Bastard Magical Instructor – Seven Seas
• Assassin’s Creed: Awakening – Titan Comics
• Astra Lost in Space – VIZ
• Attack on Titan: Lost Girls – Kodansha USA
• Beasts of Abigaile – Seven Seas
• Big Order – Yen Press
• Blade of Demon Destruction – VIZ
• Blame! – Vertical Inc.
• Bloom Into You – Seven Seas
• Boruto – VIZ
• Bungo Stray Dogs – Yen Press
• Captive Hearts of Oz (original manga produced by Seven Seas) – Seven Seas
• Cells at Work! – Kodansha USA
• The Children Nowadays – VIZ
• Concrete Revolutio – Seven Seas
• Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody! – Yen Press
• Delicious in Dungeon – Yen Press
• Demon’s Plan – VIZ
• Dissolving Classroom – Vertical Inc.
• Don’t Meddle With My Daughter – Seven Seas
• Dragon Ball Super – VIZ
• Dragon’s Crown – Udon Entertainment
• Dreamin’ Sun – Seven Seas
• ERASED – Yen Press
• Fairy Tail: Rhodonite – Kodansha USA
• Farewell, My Dear Cramer – Kodansha
• Finder – VIZ
• Fire Force – Kodansha USA
• Flying Witch – Vertical Inc.
• Frau Faust – Kodansha USA
• Fukumenkei Noise – VIZ
• Generation Witch – Seven Seas
• Goblin Slayer! – Yen Press
• Golden Kamuy – VIZ
• Gangsta: Cursed – VIZ
• Ghost Diary – Seven Seas
• The Girl From the Other Side: Siuil, a Run – Seven Seas
• Grim Reaper and Four Girlfriends – Yen Press
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash – Yen Press
• Hana & Hina After School – Seven Seas
• Happiness – Kodansha
• Hatsune Miku: Mikubon – Dark Horse
• Hatsune Miku: Rin-Chan Now! – Dark Horse
• H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories (manga) – Dark Horse
• The High School Life of a Fudanshi – Seven Seas
• Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant – Kodansha USA
• Immortal Hounds – Vertical Inc.
• In/Spectre – Kodansha USA
• The Isolator – Yen Press
• JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4 – VIZ
• Judas – VIZ
• Kannazuki no Miko – VIZ
• Kase-san and . . . – Seven Seas
• Kigurumi Defense Squad – Kodansha USA
• Kin-iro Mosaic – Yen Press
• Kindred Spirits on the Roof – Seven Seas
• A Kiss and White Lily for Her – Yen Press
• Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight – Kodansha USA
• KonoSuba – Yen Press
• Land of the Lustrous – Kodansha USA
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – VIZ
• Little Witches Necklace – Yen Press
• Love and Lies – Kodansha USA
• Love Rush! – VIZ
• Magical Girl Site – Seven Seas
• Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt – VIZ
• Murciélago – Yen Press
• My Brother’s Husband – Pantheon Books
• My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness – Seven Seas
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legend of the Piko-Piko Middle School Students – Dark Horse
• No Game No Life, Desu! – Yen Press
• Oji no Kikan – Digital Manga Inc.
• Ole Golazo – VIZ
• Otome Mania!! – Seven Seas
• Persona 3 – Udon Entertainment
• Plum Crazy! Tales of a Tiger-striped Cat – Seven Seas
• Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire – VIZ
• Pokémon Pocket Comics – VIZ
• The Prince in His Dark Days – Kodansha USA
• The Promised Neverland – VIZ
• Psycho-Pass: Inspector Shinya Kogami – Dark Horse
• Puella Magi Oriko Magica Sadness Prayer – Yen Press
• Queen’s Quality – VIZ
• Re:Monster – Seven Seas
• Red Riding Hood & the Big Sad Wolf – Seven Seas
• Red Sprite – VIZ
• Regarding My Reincarnation as a Slime – Kodansha USA
• Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers – Yen Press
• Rose Guns Days Season Two – Yen Press
• Rurouni Kenshin: The Ex-Con Ashitaro – VIZ
• RWBY – VIZ
• Sakura Spirit – Sekai Project
• Saving Life – VIZ
• Scum’s Wish – Yen Press
• Secret of the Princess – Seven Seas
• Sherlock: A Study in Pink – Titan Comics
• Shojo Shumatsu Ryoko – Yen Press
• Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju – Kodansha USA
• Smokin’ Parade – Yen Press
• Species Domain – Seven Seas
• Spirits & Cat Ears – Yen Press
• Super Mario Adventures – VIZ
• Sweet Blue Flowers – VIZ
• Sweetness and Lightning – Kodansha USA
• Takuan and Batsu’s Daily Demon Diary – VIZ
• Tales of Zestiria – Seven Seas
• That Wolf-Boy is Mine! – Kodansha USA
• There’s a Demon Lord on the Floor – Seven Seas
• Tohyou Game – Yen Press
• Tokyo Ghoul:re – VIZ
• Tokyo Undead – Seven Seas
• Tomie – VIZ
• Vampire Knight Memories – VIZ
• Waiting for Spring – Kodansha USA
• Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty – Kodansha USA
• The Water Dragon’s Bride – VIZ
• Welcome to the Ballroom – Kodansha USA
• Your Name – Yen Press
• Your Name Another Side: Earthbound – Yen Press
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game – VIZ

Artbooks

• The Art of Castle in the Sky – VIZ
• The Attack on Titan Anime Guidebook – Kodansha
• The Attack on Titan Coloring Book  – Kodansha
• Monster Girl Encyclopedia II – Seven Seas
• Soul Eater Soul Art 2 – Yen Press
• Yana Toboso Black Butler Artworks 2 – Yen Press

Novels/Light Novels

• Bakemonogatari – Vertical Inc.
• Brave Chronicle: The Ruinmaker – J-Novel Club
• Clockwork Planet  – Kodansha USA
• Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody! – Yen Press
• The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku  – Seven Seas
• The Empty Box and the Zeroth Maria – Yen Press
• The Faraway Paladin – J-Novel
• Goblin Slayer! – Yen Press
• Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash – J-Novel Club
• I Saved Too Many Girls and Caused the Apocalypse – J-Novel Club
• Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep – Yen Press
• Kingdom Hearts II – Yen Press
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days – Yen Press
• KonoSuba – Yen Press
• Kubikiri Cycle – Vertical Inc.
• Magical Girl Raising Project – Yen Press
• Mixed Bathing in Another Dimension – J-Novel
• My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World – J-Novel Club
• My Little Sister Can Read Kanji – J-Novel Club
• Naruto: Itachi’s Story – VIZ
• Naruto: Sasuke’s Story – Sunrise – VIZ
• Nisemonogatari – Vertical Inc.
• Occultic;Nine – J-Novel Club
• Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers – Yen Press
• The Seven Deadly Sins: The Seven Scars Left Behind – Vertical Inc.
• Sound! Euphonium – Yen Press
• Spice and Wolf: Spring Log – Yen Press
• Spice and Wolf New Theory: Parchment and Wolf – Yen Press
• Tokyo Ghoul – VIZ
• Your Name – Yen Press