Looking for a (good) website to find if a manga was licensed in english (or another language) and from which publishing company

[OisE]

I would like to know if there is a good way to check if a manga was licensed in english.

Bonus if you have also a website for spanish.

 

[undeed]

something like this?

 

[Manko-sensei]

Besides the usual trackers... if it's genre specific there are some pages run by few people that are good at that, the one I know best is The Yuri Times in English and YuriNavi in Japanese. For Spanish, since there are not that many publishers I check the official websites of those I know, such as Milky Way, ECC Comics, Ediciones Babylon, Panini, Ivrea, Norma and maybe a couple more I don't recall now.

 

[OisE]

Yes but, I would like to know if it's licensed in english. I don't think they have the information on MAL?

 

[OisE]

Besides the usual trackers... if it's genre specific there are some pages run by few people that are good at that, the one I know best is The Yuri Times in English and YuriNavi in Japanese. For Spanish, since there are not that many publishers I check the official websites of those I know, such as Milky Way, ECC Comics, Ediciones Babylon, Panini, Ivrea, Norma and maybe a couple more I don't recall now.

And what are the usual trackers?

 

[Angry_Panda]

mangaupdates.com has English licenses listed under each title, though the site layout is clunky (so I don't know if this really checks the 'good' box).

 

[Manko-sensei]

And what are the usual trackers?

If you go to a popular manga page here in MangaDex you can see them, some of them are more up to date than others and more helpful for finding out who's licenced what. Mangaupdates shows if a manga is licenced in English or not (and they put the description of the publisher), MyAnimeList has links but it's not good for that and Anilist usually has direct links to the publisher, but Anime Planet and Kitsu are useless on that front. MangaDex also works as a tracker as scanlators/contributors usually add direct links as well to publisher pages and retailers.

 

[OisE]

mangaupdates.com has English licenses listed under each title, though the site layout is clunky (so I don't know if this really checks the 'good' box).

It's good, but I think it's updated by users, it's not automated, that's the only default of MU.

MangaDex also works as a tracker as scanlators/contributors usually add direct links as well to publisher pages and retailers.

Yes, same problem as MU. And also both of them I need to look on the title page and scroll down and all. Just a search of the title is not enough. And worst we can see the published works of a mangaka.
Maybe searching titles on Amazon would be easier but I can't see if the title was licensed and dropped by an english publisher...

 

[undeed]

Yes but, I would like to know if it's licensed in english. I don't think they have the information on MAL?

uh... the news lists all the titles that are currently licensed in English (or rather published that month)
like in https://myanimelist.net/news/tag/licenses

 

[Angry_Panda]

@OisE - what's your use case for this? Are you looking to buy manga, or checking to see for scanlation purposes, or something else?

 

[OisE]

uh... the news lists all the titles that are currently licensed in English (or rather published that month)
like in https://myanimelist.net/news/tag/licenses

Yeah not the best because it's post and not title page.

what's your use case for this?

Buy manga I would say. But not necessarily new ones.

 

[OisE]

Also I would like to monitor a little the market to see what is published outside of Japan.

Like in Italy they have a lot of great things.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Buy manga I would say. But not necessarily new ones.

Probably best to use some combination of Amazon (they were a bookseller, originally...), Powell's (powells.com - excellent indie store from Portland, Oregon), and maybe some others (barnesandnoble.com ?). All of those deal with enough secondhand books that out-of-print should still have active entries.

 

[Manko-sensei]

@OisE the only problem in all this is every site adds them manually because publishers compete one with each other so only fans do it as there's no actual profit from it. I remember checking a shonen focused website that mixed new releases with rankings and similar posts to entertain, but again best case scenario it's only for a specific genre and with no guaranties every title ends added. I am from the generation that used physical catalogues in local libraries and bookstores and even called by phone to X distributor/publisher to know if I could get a copy of a certain release, so for me checking every publisher website takes only a few minutes. Maybe you could apply some techniques from Big Data analysts to this? Of course, checking online retailers and googling is part of it, I used to buy more but nowadays only a few online platforms have survived.

 

[undeed]

it's post and not title page.

what?
I don't understand

oh, you just want to check if A certain manga is licensed or not?
oh yeah, just go to mangaupdates and see if the licensed information is yes or no
wasn't the link already also in mangadex?

 

[OisE]

what?
I don't understand

Sorry.
The links in the news section don't redirect to title pages.

Anyway, it's not "good" enough. But still, thanks for the help.

 

[undeed]

The links in the news section don't redirect to title pages.

what?
the links totally go to the title pages?
what do you mean?
you mean like the page to buy it? you want it redirect to mangadex?

 

[JVick]

@OisE the only problem in all this is every site adds them manually because publishers compete one with each other so only fans do it as there's no actual profit from it. I remember checking a shonen focused website that mixed new releases with rankings and similar posts to entertain, but again best case scenario it's only for a specific genre and with no guaranties every title ends added. I am from the generation that used physical catalogues in local libraries and bookstores and even called by phone to X distributor/publisher to know if I could get a copy of a certain release, so for me checking every publisher website takes only a few minutes. Maybe you could apply some techniques from Big Data analysts to this? Of course, checking online retailers and googling is part of it, I used to buy more but nowadays only a few online platforms have survived.

I guess you could scrap in python in a monthly manner the future releases of each publisher on their website to get some sort of live database of what's coming, what's new this month and the state of completion. But that's some work.

 

[OisE]

what?
the links totally go to the title pages?
what do you mean?
you mean like the page to buy it? you want it redirect to mangadex?

Yes mb, it's just the search bar is not for the licences.