What Manga Piracy Reveals About Global Publishing in 2025

Get the definitive insights into how Manga continues to drive global digital publishing piracy

MUSO’s 2025 Manga Report provides a detailed look at how unlicensed Manga content continues to shape the publishing piracy landscape. Using MUSO’s Piracy By Industry dataset, the report examines industry-wide demand for Manga alongside books, web fiction, and other publishing content, tracked across streaming, torrent, web download, and reading platforms.

In 2025, Manga didn’t just dominate publishing piracy, it became one of the defining forces in global piracy as a whole.

MUSO recorded 65.8 billion visits to publishing piracy websites in 2025, making publishing the most resilient major piracy sector despite significant declines elsewhere. Within this, Manga accounted for 73.09% of all publishing piracy traffic, up from 70.15% in 2024. Nine of the ten most visited publishing piracy sites globally were dedicated to Manga, while Manga and Anime together represented 37.4% of all piracy traffic measured by MUSO across five content sectors.

Download the full MUSO 2025 Manga Report to explore:

The scale of Manga’s dominance in digital publishing piracy
How Japanese-origin content has become a central driver of global piracy demand
Geographic shifts, including Indonesia becoming the world’s largest publishing piracy market
How audiences discover and access Manga piracy sites
The impact of the Bato.to network takedown and wider enforcement activity in 2025
The Cloudflare ruling and its implications for piracy enforcement
Long-term publishing piracy trends since 2017 and what they reveal about audience demand

About MUSO

MUSO is a data company that provides the most complete and trusted view of unlicensed media consumption and global piracy demand. MUSO's expertise, data and technology help rights-owners measure and protect their content from piracy and enable companies to make better decisions that drive performance, ROI and value.