Manga in Portugal

This page shows all mangas published in Portugal (There are only Japanese mangas fully translated into the European variant of Portuguese).

This list is organized as follows: Publisher > Published Mangas (Both in chronological order).

Texto Editora
Texto Editora is a Portuguese publishing house dedicated to the textbook market. Founded in Lisbon, in April 1977, it is considered one of the biggest publishers in Portugal. On January 7, 2008, with the foundation of the LeYa Group, it became part of this holding, together with the Portuguese publishers ASA, Caminho, Gailivro and Nova Gaia, the Mozambican Ndjira and the Angolan Nzila.

In 1996, under the editorial label Manga, published 2 mangas. After that, never published mangas again.

Meribérica
Meribérica, which at one point had the trade name Meribérica/Líber, was a Portuguese publishing house, headquartered in Lisbon. At the turn of the 20th to the 21st century, it was the main comic book publisher in Portugal. At the same time, it published other genres and authors. It ended up being dissolved, not having for sure a date for such.

Released manga during the Meribérica/Liber era.

Planeta DeAgostini
Planeta DeAgostini is a Spanish-Italian publisher and a subsidiary of Grupo Planeta and DeAgostini specializing in collectable books, sold in pieces, periodically through newsstands. It has its headquarters in Barcelona.

The company published several books, including manga, but ended up abandoning the bookseller and focusing only on products related to children's education, automobile miniatures, action figures, among other themes. The vast majority of their licenses were transferred to Planeta, also present in this list more forward.

Editora Devir
Editora Devir began publishing comics in Portugal in 1999, with titles from Marvel and DC. Despite having started releasing manga in 2004, it was only in 2012 that he started to release collections uninterruptedly. In 2017, he launches the Tsuru collection, dedicated to innovative classic and contemporary Japanese authors, recognized for their contribution to the art of comics and also to Japanese culture.

Despite not having many collections, it is one of the biggest manga publishers in Portugal still active, due to its successful releases.

MangaLine Edições
MangaLine Edições was a publisher created at the end of 2006 and terminated in 2008. Firstly to be called “Naraneko”, this publisher faced problems in the negotiation and consequent acquisition of rights to publish works, so, the responsibles for the project got in touch with MangaLine Ediciones of Spain and, thus, the possibility of forming a subsidiary of the Spanish publishing house arose. Released manga for about a year and, like the Spanish sister, also ended up mysteriously disappearing.

ASA
ASA is a Portuguese publishing house, whose name is composed of the acronym "Américo da Silva Areal", the name of a Portuguese teacher, writer and businessman, responsible for having founded the publishing house in 1951. On January 7, 2008, with the foundation of the LeYa Group, it became part of this holding, together with the Portuguese publishers Caminho, Gailivro, Nova Gaia and Texto Editora, the Mozambican Ndjira and the Angolan Nzila. It is well known in Portugal for their school textbooks for secondary and primary education. Initially, however, the publisher had devoted itself more to literature (including children's one), poetry, art, architecture, among others. In 2002, the company began releasing comics. It is a reference in publications of Portuguese and foreign literature in the same country. It also has one of the best catalogs in Europe in the field of comics and is the undisputed leader in the Portuguese market. It is quite notable for its constant publication of Franco-Walloon books.

ASA's manga adventure started with the release of some western mangas. Later, in 2010, it started releasing exclusively Japanese manga. In 2012 the publisher tragically sees all its contracts with Shueisha and Kodansha being uniterally broken (Both Shueisha and Kodansha breakings are due to them not being satisfied with the accomplishment of their mangas in the country), which resulted in the quick withdrawal from publishing mangas, temporarily...

In 2018, seeing several Portuguese publishers launching manga, ASA announces new manga releases, which made the publisher embark on the manga market again. After this, ASA has only announced 2 new mangas (1 in 2019 and another in 2021) and despite releasing a new manga volume at least every two months, the publisher it's still at a very slow pace and recovering from the legacy that left in the past attempts.

Panini Manga
Panini Manga Portugal was created in May 2020 as a subsidiary of the Panini Group and sister of Panini Manga Spain (from where some of its editions are based). Unlike its sister, which is nothing more than an editorial seal of Panini Comics, Panini Manga Portugal is an independent publisher of Panini Comics (which in the country is limited to importing Brazilian versions of Marvel comics), and the two only have in common to belong to the same group.

It should be noted that although the group does not have headquarters in Portugal, Panini Manga became the only company in the group to have a headquarters in the country. Its headquarters, located in Sintra, and its 3 publishing and logistics assistance offices, located in Vila Nova de Gaia (Northern part), Portimão (Southern part) and Funchal (Archipelagos), were opened in June 2020. This makes all mangas released by the publisher to be completely edited in Portugal.

Levoir
Levoir – Marketing and Multimedia Contents, S.A. is a company specialized in the creation of content “à la carte”. It was created in 2009 and, in Portugal, publishes comics since 2012.

JBC Portugal
JBC Portugal was a subsidiary publisher of JBC, dedicated to the publication of manga in European Portuguese for Portugal. Created in July 2018, it published a few mangas and mysteriously disappeared in 2019. So far, no one has commented on what really happened.