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Food for Thought: What are some of your favorite non-anime and manga things from 2018?
Topics: Weekly Shonen Jump USA Goes Free, Hidive Teams with VRV, Funimation Teams with Hulu, TMS Starting 2 US Streaming Channels, Top-selling Manga Series of 2018.
Anime licenses were up from last year. The difference between anime and manga licenses was still significant (anime: ~120, manga: ~190) but less crazy than in 2017. With Sentai Filmworks and Discotek leading the charge; picking up around 80 of those 120 anime licenses of 2018 between them.
We had some additions to the manga publishers this year: Denpa and Sol Press, plus J-Novel added manga to their line-up. Also there’s been an expanded line of digital-only titles for purchase from all over the map. That really showed in Kodansha’s list which exceeded 60 titles this year, many of which were exclusively digital.
As a reminder, this list does not include streaming-only anime and manga. And as always, let us know if we missed anything.
The Line-Up is a monthly rundown of new anime, manga, novel, and artbook licenses for the U.S. It also lists new streaming/broadcasting announcements and posted crowdfunding projects available to U.S. residents. And finally, it includes anime/manga projects and live-action anime/manga adaptation announcements from Japan.
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