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My question is about how are volumes determined in a manga. Does it go by
major villain in a form of one per volume? Or... Does it go by story arc, in a
way that a new story forms a new arc? Lastly, are anime story series—arcs,
seasons, sagas, etc—determined by the manga volumes?

Please help me understand how this categorization works.


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How are volumes determined in manga?


There is no fixed rule to decide the boundary of a volume of a Manga. It's
upto the mangaka and the publisher to decide where a given volume starts or
ends. They're _**generally**_ published arc-wise to maintain a uniformity
throughout the volume.

As per Wikipedia

> In Japan, manga are usually serialized in large manga magazines, often
> containing many stories, each presented in a single episode to be continued
> in the next issue. If the series is successful, collected chapters may be
> republished in tankōbon volumes, frequently but not exclusively, paperback
> books.
>
> After a series has run for a while, publishers often collect the episodes
> together and print them in dedicated book-sized volumes, called tankōbon.


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It is usually each episode, most animes are based off of manga, so you have to
do the math if you wanted a 23 episode from season 6 of an anime you would
have to count each episode to get to that episode as in the manga.


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