

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.

* * *

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.


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What percentage of hentai manga artists are female?


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.


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Comiket is the largest fan convention in the world where many of those hentai
artists sell their doujinshis. From [the official introduction to
Comiket](https://www.comiket.co.jp/info-a/WhatIsEng201401.pdf) (PDF, updated
2014),

> Conventional wisdom tends to portray doujinshi as male dominated, but in
> fact, _women comprise the majority_ at Comic Market.
>
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> [![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WWAGT.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WWAGT.png)
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> A diagram showing 57% of the circle participants are women

The public, on the other hand, is around 60% male.

This doesn't mean that most hentai artists are female, but at least a good
portion of them should be. Some artists are confirmed male or female while
others remain a secret.


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I am a hentai manga researcher. Although there are no exact statistics, the
unanimous view of Japanese subculture researchers is that the percentage of
female HETAI artists is about 30%. This figure is the percentage of women
working in the male-oriented commercial hentai manga genre. There are many
adult manga genres for women in Japan, and if female authors active in Yaoi,
Yuri, and Teens' Love are included, the figure could exceed 60%. It is
therefore possible for female writers to be active in sexual genres in Japan.


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