Members of the folk group “Comics Technology Research Association”サキcollect and organize new serials of comic magazines, websites, and apps every month, and share their own collections on the “Comics Technology Research Association” website. Result
According to the information he collected, during the year from December 11, 2017 to December 15, 2018, various comic media in Japan launched a new series of 1,512 comics; on average, 120 per month. 130 new serials were born
The members of the Comic Technology Research Society classified and counted 1,512 comics, trying to interpret the new serial trends
1 – Year-round tendency.
Reader’s tendency:
New serials to the overwhelming majority of youth, teenagers to comics less. However, the comics classified in the article to “Youth Xiang” are the meaning that “youth can also have fun” (so there is no such thing as “youth comics” when you translate), it may be that the classification has led to this type of many
In addition, the new serial for girls and adult women is twice as large as that of teenagers. It also reflects the status of female readers in the data
The overall type tends to:
Look at the different types of new serialization trends, “love, love comedy” “fantasy sci-fi” “daily, drama, essay” category of new serials. At the same time, there are fewer new serials in sports. For new serials, this may be an opportunity for less competition
The reader layer coincides with the type:
“Fantasy·Science Fiction” and “Daily·Drama·Essay” take the overwhelming majority of youth to new serials. At the same time, “love and love comedy” is not only a youth, but also a lot of works for girls and women
2 – The trend of the month.
The number of new serials per month:
1 month and August are mostly, it can be considered that the new serialization is concentrated in the beginning of the year, the beginning of the year and the summer vacation. The reduction in new serials in February and September may be counterproductive
New serial type trends in different months.
1 month has a new series of debuts, and the August period is dominated by the king type
In May of Japan’s Golden Week, although the number of new serials has not increased significantly, the new series of “love, love comedy” and “funny comedy” topics are mostly. This may have been published in response to the expectation of the students of the new school year and the newly graduated social people
3 – The ratio of online media to paper media.
Proportion of different media:
The new serials are almost half of the proportions that began to be published in the paper media and started in the online media. It can be seen that if you want to publish a new serial in the commercial media, ignoring the online media is equivalent to losing half of the opportunity
The proportion of paper media and online media in each project:
And looking at which of the two types of media works, there seems to be no big difference
(Of course, no one will draw a picture on the paper media).
4 – Details of the type classification.
The above has divided the comics into 8 broad categories. And then, the article is divided into more detailed, divided into 36 detailed categories
Since the classification is fine, a comic can choose multiple options. For example, there is a four-character comic book adapted from a different world reincarnation novel, which will add one to each of the three categories: “Different World Crossing and Reincarnation”, “Four Grids” and “Adaptation”
Then we can see that there are a total of 241 new serials in the “Adaptation”, which is very prominent. There are also 124 “cross-country and reincarnation”, accounting for 10% of the total number of new serials
In addition, there are 93 “Zhang Man” works for mobile browsing. There are also 42 “gender” comics, reflecting the increasing attention paid to this topic in the world
And if you refine the type according to the reader level?
Juniors and young people are classified into the detailed types in the new series:
The number of “adapted” works has a large gap between the youth and the youth. It can be considered that the target audience of text media such as online novels and light novels is mostly young, which leads to such differences.The
“Uncle” theme also reflects a significant difference in readership age
The “different world system” and the “different world crossing and reincarnation” are mostly young, and the juveniles appear to be slightly less. This may be because it is a young reader who can understand the customary setting of reincarnation works
In addition, although there is a small proportion of “combat and action” in the larger type of tendency, there are many works with the “power fighting” element. It can be seen that there are many works. Although the combat action is not the theme, the story is based on the battle plot
The girl and the female are classified into the detailed types in the new serial:
BL New serials are mostly women, and there are almost no girls. It may be that the increase in the BL book system of NetMan has led to such a result
The new serial of the girl’s direction is almost the only one of the “campus” theme. When it comes to women, the proportion of “campus” has dropped, and “workplace and work” has increased rapidly
In addition, compared with the girls, women have also increased their fantasy elements such as “fantasy world” and “different ability” in the new serial
5 – Summary.
“The youth’s reincarnation works in the middle and the alien world are more, and the broad-based cognition of the girl’s direction is mostly based on campus themes.”
The increase in the number of new serials for online media has also been confirmed to be a fact
(https://comici.jp/articles/?id=6815)