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Jennifer Maas
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Orange The manga industry has a big problem and it’s not lack of demand, but a lack of authorized supply.
“There is a global demand for manga worldwide, and there’s far more demands than any content that’s officially translated right now, and that’s a very big issue,” Shoko Ugaki, the CEO of manga translation company Orange Inc., told Variety in an interview via translator last month.
Based on Orange’s recent survey, there are approximately 30,000 manga titles that have been translated into English versus the number of pirated English-translation mangas, which come out to “about five times more than officially translated manga,” per Ugaki.
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