2025 Licensing Survey Results! – MangaGamer Staff Blog

Thank you to everyone who participated again this year! And without further ado… onto the results!

Starting off with the thing everyone’s really here for, the top 20 license requests (note: NEW here just means it didn’t make the top list last year):

1. Ooe ↑
2. Sakura no Uta
3. Fraternite ↑
4. Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni ↑
5. Yoshiwara Higanbana ↓
6. Shingakkou – Noli me tangere – ↑
7. Erewhon ↑
8. Jooubachi no Oubou ↓
9. Black Sheep Town NEW TIE Diabolik Lovers ↑
10. Ken ga Kimi ↑
11. Omega Vampire ↑
12. Kajiri Kamui Kagura ↓
13. Natsu no Kusari NEW TIE WHITE ALBUM 2 NEW
14. Taishou Mebiusline ↑ TIE Trianthology ↑
15. Haiiro no Arcadia NEW TIE Lesson NEW
16. Ouju no Shima NEW
17. Sakura no Toki ↑
18. Daiakuji NEW
19. Kintouka NEW
20. Amakano ↑

(And yes before people bring it up again we are aware that Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni and Yoshiwara Higanbana have very similar titles—they are actually both very popular suggestions.)

And for the rest of the survey topics, please enjoy some graphs:

And that’s about it for the 2025 survey! If you included your e-mail to be entered to win your choice of one of the games in our library, make sure to keep your eyes out for an e-mail from us over the next day or so it to see if you were selected. And we’ve updated our Announcements and Schedule page with information about our first convention appearance of the year!