What percentage of hentai manga artists are female?


I've been wondering about that for a long time, and it turns out (after
cursory googling) that a lot of the hentai mangas that get translated into
English are drawn by female mangakas, according to their fans and sometimes
the artists' personal pages (which not all of them have).

One thing to remember is that usually only higher quality works make the cut
and get translated into English and posted on English-speaking hentai manga
sharing sites, where the total ratio of male/female mangakas is not
representative of the total number of hentai artists.

As I don't expect there to be enough info out there on the artists who don't
make the cut, I'm more interested in the ones that do. But if there are
surveys/statistics on the total number, that would be interesting to learn
too.

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As for what I've tried before asking: I found a couple of big torrents which
list files starting with the mangaka's name (or pseudonym), but without
ability to read Japanese, I'm unable to research any of them to find out their
gender. That, and there being several thousand of unique artist names, is a
massive undertaking. So unless there are already some statistics out there, I
guess it's gonna take a while to get an answer.




The answer is **"we do not know"**.

Now, as others have pointed out, there is the issue of Mangaka using
(multiple) pen names for their erotic stuff, but the other half of the story
is that Mangaka like to stay anonymous even in a more general sense. Most of
them don't like attention, which is why we don't even know who wrote, for
example, Death Note. Could be a guy, could be a gal.

For erotic Manga things just get more secretive.

If I had to guess, I would look at the number of erotic Manga aimed at guys
(~22.500) and the number of erotic Manga aimed at gals (~2.300) to get a rough
estimate of at least 1:10.

