i really appreciate you looking at the actual data and doing the release calendar regularly! i don't follow english releases and from other creators around i constantly got the narrative that there's only so little and how unfair that is, a lot of doom and gloom. and i already knew that the same talking points are used for anime where I do know the situation and that releases have been quite consistent actually (not even going into originals and joseimuke game adaptions). so it's cool to look at the actual situation, and also love to see manhwas included! yea they're not manga but they also very much go for the same target demographic and shouldn't be discounted when we're talking about the demographic getting content that they're into. it's the kind of approach that i think makes people more likely to go looking for titles and keep up with releases themselves. i know I'm not the target audience since i don't buy in english but your positivity and excitement do always make me smile and get me in the mood to read!
Oh my goodness, I am so so so encouraged by your comment! 😭😭😭😭 Thank you so much for sharing because I truly feel that what I hoped this video/sharing the data would convey did because I am so with you that their we are consistently getting shoujo! (Very interesting to hear that anime has a similar situation!!) Also I am so happy to hear that you were happy manhwa was included! I feel the exact same way you do and strongly feel they should be included even if I did have someone tell me that they would prefer I didn't, but I personally love manhwa too much to NOT promote it! Such a wonderful media! Also thank you so much for the kind words!! Your comment truly made my day and was so deeply encouraged!! 🥹🥹🥹
@LauraAGrace as a disclaimer since i didn't go into much detail, for joseimuke anime the amount has been quite consistent while for anime as a whole there are more being made so there is a bit of a trend there. but it's being talked about as if there was a massive decrease and now increase when that's not really the case, and i know people wouldn't count in things like otome game adaptions, because they're not keeping up with anime that much and when just filtering for shoujo and josei they might not come up in databases (while some that are just a few 2 minute advertisements do and bloat some years), or they don't wanna count them or originals, but they are sooo relevant when we're actually talking anime demographics and not just Shoujo Manga Adaptions. same for manhwa as a source! i think there's a space to discuss strictly manga only but when looking at the whole localisation market and the shifts they're incredibly relevant and even japanese studios are using them as a source. there's just a lot more to it all, and someone can have their preference, but when talking about the wider market it's disingenuous to ignore all of that. and since the data is split up someone can just see the manga only numbers anyways. sorry this just turned into another rant when I'd rather be uplifting things but. well. it is a bit of a pet peeve. you probably noticed lmao
The charts, the graphs, the percentages, the break downs!! 😩🤌💖 Omgggg girl, you ROCKED this look back video!! You're doing the heavy lifting here for the shojosei community 💪💖 This is such a brilliant end cap to summarize 2024. Love the PowerPoint, it's soooooo cute in aesthetic 💖🪴 All the snaps, claps, and confetti!! 👏🎉
Oh my goodness thank you!! 😭😭😭😭😭 I am so so so encouraged by your words!! Thank you so much for watching, sweet friend!! Your comment really made my day!!! 🥹🥹🥹
It truly has been a win year for shoujo / josei manga fans!!! Tysm Laura for keeping us informed the whole year round. I always enjoyed your takes on the latest shoujosei release - you are one of the wins of the shoujo community here fr fr 💌💌💌
It really has!! I felt that it had been before working on this video, but then gathering all the data and seeing everything, I was like WHOA! And oh my goodness thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words!! 😭😭🥹 You are so so so kind!! You truly made my day!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹
This is such a good video!!!! It lays out all the more appreciation Seven Seas and Yen Press have deserved 🥰 I was so excited to see Bride of the Barrier Master, I love that series so much 😍 Thank you for sharing all this wonderful info!!! 💖
Oh my goodness thank you for your kind and encouraging words!! 😭🥹 Also I SECOND about Seven Seas and Yen Press!! So very excited for all the things they are bringing us! And YAY for Bride of the Barrier Master!! I have that one on my radar!! Again thank you so much for the kind words and for watching! 🥹
Great job on this! Interesting stuff, some very surprising. And many series I had no idea is getting physically published! Plenty of wins and I'm sure many more to come! The Obsessed Mage is a really good short story. To me story comes first and then the mature content. It is the only series I have read with mature content that has made me cry!
What a fantastic video! Thanks so much for highlighting the positives. We really did get fed with a lot of releases this past year. Hope 2025 brings us even more 😄
Ahhh thank you so much for your kind words and for watching! 😭😭🥹 I was really shocked to see how much we got last year!! And yessss!! Cheers to 2025 being just as amazing with releases and licenses! 🥳🥳🥳
You did an amazing job on this, wow, this must have taken FOREVER to do! You rock, girl!!! 👍✨ Also so great just how many manga we got in 2024 alone, wow! I’m for sure going to have to go through this again and see if any would work for me!
Thanks so much for all the work in putting this together (Vampy as well). It was super informative and was nice to see what we got and what finished. Really cool video. ❤
Ahh thank you so much for the kind words!! (And about Vampy too!! I am so so so thankful for everything she has done!) 😭😭🥹 Very very encouraged to hear the video was super informative and deeply appreciate you watching! 🥹
This is such a fresh and informative video! It must’ve taken so long so thank you💕. Seeing all of the releases compiled into one video makes it so much easier to track what series I want to support!
Oh my goodness thank you so much for the kind words! 😭🥹 I confess it took me a lot longer then I expected when I first felt inspired, but it was more then worth it! I felt so encouraged by all the things that we got last year and all the things that are coming! Cheers to a wonderful year of shojosei!! 🥳
Wow, you did such a great job both collecting all these updates and then making all that info look great in your video! There really were a ton of licenses to keep track of in 2024, and I’m looking forward to trying all the new titles this year! 😊
Oh my goodness thank you so so much for the kind words, Dawn!! 😭😭🥹 I'm truly so encouraged and totally agree that there are so many licenses to keep track of this year! I'm more then thrilled, but my wallet strongly disagrees! 🤣🤣🤣 Than you so so so much for watching! 🥹🥹🥹
Oh wow this is a crazy list! I cant imagine how long it took to get everything together. A lot of this info is really cool, i also didnt realize how much shojo One Peace Books was releasing for being such a small publisher (getting longer series probably helps) and i didnt realize Seven Seas licensed over 50 new series this year alone! Having numbers really puts into perspective how much things are changing in terms of licenses and its really cool to see. Thank you for putting this all together, and heres to more wins in 2025!! (also i think you forgot Bride of the Death God in the Square Enix licenses? that or i was lied too about it being a shojo rip)
Oh my goodness thank you so much for watching and the kind words!! And SAME about One Peace Books!! I think that's true that it helps having longer series! Also SAME about Seven Seas with all the new series!! Thankful for the numbers too and thankful it was encouraging to you as well! That is SUPER interesting to hear about Bride of the Death God!! I was told it wasn't shoujo but saw Baka Updates is marking it as shoujo and now I have no idea! 😱😱😱 I need to look into this! Thank you for pointing that out!!
Great video! I like to read completed series, so that part was amazing for me. I looked up all the series to find quite a lot that I would like to read. Thank you so much for all your hard work. The statistics were so interesting.
Ahh thank you so so so much (and thank you SO much for watching)! And oh my goodness how amazing is that!! I was sort of unsure how people would feel about "series ended" portions, but I'm so encouraged to know you found that helpful! I didn't even think about how it could be super useful when wanting to read completed series!! Truly thank you so much for sharing and the kind words!! 😭😭🥹
Wow this was an incredible video! It really must've taken a lot of work to put this together. Thank you 🥺 I am just as surprised to see that Kodansha had basically a 50/50 print to digital ratio. Crazy. Really felt like it was mostly digital 🥲 Also one last thing, I want a paperback for Boss Bride Days too!! I read a few chapters of it and loved it 😫💕
Oh my goodness thank you for your kind words!! 😭😭🥹 I definitely didn't expect it to be THAT much work when I had the original idea! 🤣 But it was definitely more then worth it!! Also SAME about Kodansha! I don't think I've gotten over that for the same reasons because it truly didn't feel like it! 🙈 I AM SQUEALING!!! I'm so so so excited to hear that!! I only know one other person who has read it!! I truly hope we can get it print one day!! 🤞🤞🤞
EEEEPP! So very excited and encouraged to hear that! Thank you so much for watching! And oh my goodness it did!! I spent several days just working on it for several hours, but it was so worth it! 🤩 I felt deeply encouraged to see everything listed out and so thankful to hear it was fun to watch!! 🥹🥹🥹
I’ll definitely be referring to this video to make sure I buy all the stuff I’ve been wanting 🤭💘 thank you for sharing this! This looked like a lot of work and it came out so well!!! Great job and congrats for finally pushing through and completing it 😭🙏🙏
EEEEPPP!! I'm so encouraged to hear that!! And ahhh thank you!! It was a lot of work but I truly had a blast working on it and found myself super encouraged in seeing everything we got this past year!! Cheers to another wonderful year of shoujosei!! 🥳🥳🥳
Hi. I just want you to know that in fall 2025, kakuriyo bed and breakfast for spirits season 2. I hope I can buy all the manga this year before season 2. 😊
Ahhhh thank you SO much for sharing!! I didn't realize it was coming out THIS YEAR! 😱😱😱😱 I definitely need to watch season one before then!! Also yessss!! I hope you can too! 🤩🤩🤩
OH!! Demon Prince of Momochi House is gonna have an encore series?? nice!! A Vampire in the Bathhouse looks wild. XD I read the premise and I'm too skeptical to do a blind-buy but I'm probably going to check it out thanks to the cover vibes. GAH why is Cross Infinite World so stingy with their updates??!? I keep going to their website because there's that one particular thing I'm super excited for and after months and months of checking they update.... and add only TWO THINGS.
It is!! 🤩 Unsure of how long the sequel would be but I'm super curious after seeing the leads on it together! And FOR REAL!! I don't think I would blind buy it either, but I would be curious enough to flip through it at a bookstore! 🤣 I wish I knew about Cross Infinite World as well! 😭 I feel like their calendar is not usually updated? Or I'm not reading it right? I feel when I go to see what's coming out and click on what they say is, it doesn't match with what's on Amazon (because I've learned to double check all their stuff). The best place I've noticed they seem MOST up-to-date is Twitter because I just saw they had an audiobook coming out next month and had no idea! 😱
How many days did you spend with this? 😭 It would take so much time. Thank you for your hard work. 🫶 I’m so happy that English-language readers are getting more shoujosei work legally. Have a good read, mina-san. ✨
Several several days and it was a huge reason I went MIA everywhere because I was worried I wouldn't have it ready in time! 🙈 It was totally worth it though!! And oh my goodness thank you for your kind words! 😭😭🥹🥹 Also, SAME!! I look forward to seeing all of what will get this year! Hope you have a wonderful day Mina-san and truly appreciate you watching and your kind words!! 🥹🥹🥹
i really appreciate you looking at the actual data and doing the release calendar regularly! i don't follow english releases and from other creators around i constantly got the narrative that there's only so little and how unfair that is, a lot of doom and gloom. and i already knew that the same talking points are used for anime where I do know the situation and that releases have been quite consistent actually (not even going into originals and joseimuke game adaptions). so it's cool to look at the actual situation, and also love to see manhwas included! yea they're not manga but they also very much go for the same target demographic and shouldn't be discounted when we're talking about the demographic getting content that they're into.
it's the kind of approach that i think makes people more likely to go looking for titles and keep up with releases themselves. i know I'm not the target audience since i don't buy in english but your positivity and excitement do always make me smile and get me in the mood to read!
Oh my goodness, I am so so so encouraged by your comment! 😭😭😭😭 Thank you so much for sharing because I truly feel that what I hoped this video/sharing the data would convey did because I am so with you that their we are consistently getting shoujo! (Very interesting to hear that anime has a similar situation!!) Also I am so happy to hear that you were happy manhwa was included! I feel the exact same way you do and strongly feel they should be included even if I did have someone tell me that they would prefer I didn't, but I personally love manhwa too much to NOT promote it! Such a wonderful media!
Also thank you so much for the kind words!! Your comment truly made my day and was so deeply encouraged!! 🥹🥹🥹
@LauraAGrace as a disclaimer since i didn't go into much detail, for joseimuke anime the amount has been quite consistent while for anime as a whole there are more being made so there is a bit of a trend there. but it's being talked about as if there was a massive decrease and now increase when that's not really the case, and i know people wouldn't count in things like otome game adaptions, because they're not keeping up with anime that much and when just filtering for shoujo and josei they might not come up in databases (while some that are just a few 2 minute advertisements do and bloat some years), or they don't wanna count them or originals, but they are sooo relevant when we're actually talking anime demographics and not just Shoujo Manga Adaptions.
same for manhwa as a source! i think there's a space to discuss strictly manga only but when looking at the whole localisation market and the shifts they're incredibly relevant and even japanese studios are using them as a source. there's just a lot more to it all, and someone can have their preference, but when talking about the wider market it's disingenuous to ignore all of that. and since the data is split up someone can just see the manga only numbers anyways. sorry this just turned into another rant when I'd rather be uplifting things but. well. it is a bit of a pet peeve. you probably noticed lmao
The charts, the graphs, the percentages, the break downs!! 😩🤌💖 Omgggg girl, you ROCKED this look back video!! You're doing the heavy lifting here for the shojosei community 💪💖
This is such a brilliant end cap to summarize 2024. Love the PowerPoint, it's soooooo cute in aesthetic 💖🪴 All the snaps, claps, and confetti!! 👏🎉
Oh my goodness thank you!! 😭😭😭😭😭 I am so so so encouraged by your words!! Thank you so much for watching, sweet friend!! Your comment really made my day!!! 🥹🥹🥹
It truly has been a win year for shoujo / josei manga fans!!! Tysm Laura for keeping us informed the whole year round. I always enjoyed your takes on the latest shoujosei release - you are one of the wins of the shoujo community here fr fr 💌💌💌
It really has!! I felt that it had been before working on this video, but then gathering all the data and seeing everything, I was like WHOA! And oh my goodness thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words!! 😭😭🥹 You are so so so kind!! You truly made my day!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹
This is such a good video!!!! It lays out all the more appreciation Seven Seas and Yen Press have deserved 🥰 I was so excited to see Bride of the Barrier Master, I love that series so much 😍 Thank you for sharing all this wonderful info!!! 💖
Oh my goodness thank you for your kind and encouraging words!! 😭🥹 Also I SECOND about Seven Seas and Yen Press!! So very excited for all the things they are bringing us! And YAY for Bride of the Barrier Master!! I have that one on my radar!! Again thank you so much for the kind words and for watching! 🥹
Great job on this! Interesting stuff, some very surprising. And many series I had no idea is getting physically published! Plenty of wins and I'm sure many more to come!
The Obsessed Mage is a really good short story. To me story comes first and then the mature content. It is the only series I have read with mature content that has made me cry!
What a fantastic video! Thanks so much for highlighting the positives. We really did get fed with a lot of releases this past year. Hope 2025 brings us even more 😄
Ahhh thank you so much for your kind words and for watching! 😭😭🥹 I was really shocked to see how much we got last year!! And yessss!! Cheers to 2025 being just as amazing with releases and licenses! 🥳🥳🥳
You did an amazing job on this, wow, this must have taken FOREVER to do! You rock, girl!!! 👍✨
Also so great just how many manga we got in 2024 alone, wow! I’m for sure going to have to go through this again and see if any would work for me!
Thanks so much for all the work in putting this together (Vampy as well). It was super informative and was nice to see what we got and what finished. Really cool video. ❤
Ahh thank you so much for the kind words!! (And about Vampy too!! I am so so so thankful for everything she has done!) 😭😭🥹 Very very encouraged to hear the video was super informative and deeply appreciate you watching! 🥹
This is such a fresh and informative video! It must’ve taken so long so thank you💕. Seeing all of the releases compiled into one video makes it so much easier to track what series I want to support!
Oh my goodness thank you so much for the kind words! 😭🥹 I confess it took me a lot longer then I expected when I first felt inspired, but it was more then worth it! I felt so encouraged by all the things that we got last year and all the things that are coming! Cheers to a wonderful year of shojosei!! 🥳
Wow, you did such a great job both collecting all these updates and then making all that info look great in your video! There really were a ton of licenses to keep track of in 2024, and I’m looking forward to trying all the new titles this year! 😊
Oh my goodness thank you so so much for the kind words, Dawn!! 😭😭🥹 I'm truly so encouraged and totally agree that there are so many licenses to keep track of this year! I'm more then thrilled, but my wallet strongly disagrees! 🤣🤣🤣 Than you so so so much for watching! 🥹🥹🥹
Oh wow this is a crazy list! I cant imagine how long it took to get everything together. A lot of this info is really cool, i also didnt realize how much shojo One Peace Books was releasing for being such a small publisher (getting longer series probably helps) and i didnt realize Seven Seas licensed over 50 new series this year alone! Having numbers really puts into perspective how much things are changing in terms of licenses and its really cool to see. Thank you for putting this all together, and heres to more wins in 2025!! (also i think you forgot Bride of the Death God in the Square Enix licenses? that or i was lied too about it being a shojo rip)
Oh my goodness thank you so much for watching and the kind words!! And SAME about One Peace Books!! I think that's true that it helps having longer series! Also SAME about Seven Seas with all the new series!! Thankful for the numbers too and thankful it was encouraging to you as well! That is SUPER interesting to hear about Bride of the Death God!! I was told it wasn't shoujo but saw Baka Updates is marking it as shoujo and now I have no idea! 😱😱😱 I need to look into this! Thank you for pointing that out!!
Great video! I like to read completed series, so that part was amazing for me. I looked up all the series to find quite a lot that I would like to read. Thank you so much for all your hard work. The statistics were so interesting.
Ahh thank you so so so much (and thank you SO much for watching)! And oh my goodness how amazing is that!! I was sort of unsure how people would feel about "series ended" portions, but I'm so encouraged to know you found that helpful! I didn't even think about how it could be super useful when wanting to read completed series!! Truly thank you so much for sharing and the kind words!! 😭😭🥹
Awesome video! I had no idea we had so many shoujo manga wins!
Ahhh thank you so so so much for watching!! 🥹🥹🥹 Also SAME!! It was a lot of fun and really encouraging to see all the wins we had this year!!
Wow this was an incredible video! It really must've taken a lot of work to put this together. Thank you 🥺
I am just as surprised to see that Kodansha had basically a 50/50 print to digital ratio. Crazy. Really felt like it was mostly digital 🥲
Also one last thing, I want a paperback for Boss Bride Days too!! I read a few chapters of it and loved it 😫💕
Oh my goodness thank you for your kind words!! 😭😭🥹 I definitely didn't expect it to be THAT much work when I had the original idea! 🤣 But it was definitely more then worth it!!
Also SAME about Kodansha! I don't think I've gotten over that for the same reasons because it truly didn't feel like it! 🙈
I AM SQUEALING!!! I'm so so so excited to hear that!! I only know one other person who has read it!! I truly hope we can get it print one day!! 🤞🤞🤞
This was so much fun to watch! This had to of taken you hours to get all the information! ❤❤❤❤ impressive!!
EEEEPP! So very excited and encouraged to hear that! Thank you so much for watching! And oh my goodness it did!! I spent several days just working on it for several hours, but it was so worth it! 🤩 I felt deeply encouraged to see everything listed out and so thankful to hear it was fun to watch!! 🥹🥹🥹
I’ll definitely be referring to this video to make sure I buy all the stuff I’ve been wanting 🤭💘 thank you for sharing this! This looked like a lot of work and it came out so well!!! Great job and congrats for finally pushing through and completing it 😭🙏🙏
EEEEPPP!! I'm so encouraged to hear that!! And ahhh thank you!! It was a lot of work but I truly had a blast working on it and found myself super encouraged in seeing everything we got this past year!! Cheers to another wonderful year of shoujosei!! 🥳🥳🥳
Can you share the discord server link again? I'd like to join.
Ahh I didn't realize it was expire that quickly! Yes! I'll share it here and update the link in the description too!!
discord.gg/vv64mVdY
Hi. I just want you to know that in fall 2025, kakuriyo bed and breakfast for spirits season 2. I hope I can buy all the manga this year before season 2. 😊
Ahhhh thank you SO much for sharing!! I didn't realize it was coming out THIS YEAR! 😱😱😱😱 I definitely need to watch season one before then!! Also yessss!! I hope you can too! 🤩🤩🤩
OH!! Demon Prince of Momochi House is gonna have an encore series?? nice!!
A Vampire in the Bathhouse looks wild. XD I read the premise and I'm too skeptical to do a blind-buy but I'm probably going to check it out thanks to the cover vibes.
GAH why is Cross Infinite World so stingy with their updates??!? I keep going to their website because there's that one particular thing I'm super excited for and after months and months of checking they update.... and add only TWO THINGS.
It is!! 🤩 Unsure of how long the sequel would be but I'm super curious after seeing the leads on it together!
And FOR REAL!! I don't think I would blind buy it either, but I would be curious enough to flip through it at a bookstore! 🤣
I wish I knew about Cross Infinite World as well! 😭 I feel like their calendar is not usually updated? Or I'm not reading it right? I feel when I go to see what's coming out and click on what they say is, it doesn't match with what's on Amazon (because I've learned to double check all their stuff). The best place I've noticed they seem MOST up-to-date is Twitter because I just saw they had an audiobook coming out next month and had no idea! 😱
@@LauraAGrace Yeah.... I'munna grab it. X3
It's the rubber ducks for me. They carry a promise of silliness! XD
Ohhh good tip. I'll follow them then!
How many days did you spend with this? 😭 It would take so much time. Thank you for your hard work. 🫶 I’m so happy that English-language readers are getting more shoujosei work legally. Have a good read, mina-san. ✨
Several several days and it was a huge reason I went MIA everywhere because I was worried I wouldn't have it ready in time! 🙈 It was totally worth it though!! And oh my goodness thank you for your kind words! 😭😭🥹🥹 Also, SAME!! I look forward to seeing all of what will get this year! Hope you have a wonderful day Mina-san and truly appreciate you watching and your kind words!! 🥹🥹🥹