Japan's Comic Sales Reached a Record ¥677 Billion in 2022. Here is everything you need to know about the sales of comics - both digital and print format.
Epic. Innovative. Intimate. Those were the adjectives used by the jury to describe Sakana Sakatsuki s Planetarium Ghost Travel, which won the 2023 BolognaRagazzi Award for Comics in the Young Adult category.
Sales of manga comic books and magazines in Japan are estimated to have hit a record 677 billion yen ($5 billion) in 2022, but the rise is only marginal as fewer people stayed indoors than during the earlier years of the COVID-19 pandemic, industry data show.