RESEARCH
Research Papers
PERMANENT PAPERSPublic papers that read the history of adult manga quantitatively, worked up from the records this library holds ── more than 23,000 Toranoana bookstore chart entries, the award record from 2001 onward, an artist-career database, and the rest. Every page is kept at a permanent URL, and revisions are stated plainly by advancing the edition marker. Citation and reference are welcome.
NO.1 ── AUGUST 2026
Who is the ero-manga artist who has gone on drawing longest and is still drawing today? Counted across changes of name: 39 years still active, 43 years all time. With a strata chart of half a century.
NO.2 ── OCTOBER 2026
The sales of every doujin manga on DLsite, counted without exception. How many copies does the middle work sell, and where does the top 1% begin? With a comparison against FANZA.
REFERENCE ── AUGUST 2026
Hentai, doujinshi, ero-manga ── three words used in English as though they were one, and what each of them actually names. The vocabulary of the field, defined by the structure of the hall itself. English only.
Forthcoming: A complete history of the Ero-Manga Awards / The shifting map of publishers' power ── and others.