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Often I want to buy some anime or manga, but after a long time of searching, I
find out, that the manga/anime isn't translated yet. Is there a website where
I can find information about whether an anime/manga is licensed and/or
translated? At least in English, but if there's a source for German
translations, too, I would be very happy!


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Where can I find reliable information about licensing status of manga/anime?


I typically look up this information on [Anime News Network's
encyclopedia](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/). They tend to
have licensing information pretty well covered. They pay attention to the
announcements made by the major licensing organizations and typically write
brief news pieces for each release, and more data about the licensing is added
to the encyclopedia entry as it becomes available. I can't comment on their
reliability in any language other than English, but in English they are
usually pretty good. I can't comment on how reliable they are for manga.

Other anime indexing services also tend to have information, though it's often
more sparse. [MyAnimeList](http://myanimelist.net/) and
[AniDB](http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main) both sometimes have
licensing data. In MAL it's listed with an L in the "Producers" section. In
AniDB, they typically have a link to the website of the licensing company. In
both cases, I was able to find some licensed anime which weren't listed as
such, so in my opinion these are less reliable than ANN. These sources
typically only list English licenses.

Typically, [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) articles also
include this information when it becomes available, at least for English
releases. However, these are maintained by fans, and usually link back to
various news articles anyway from ANN, MAL, etc. so they may not be as
reliable.

Finally, if there's any doubt as to whether a specific company has licensed a
particular anime, you can usually check their website. All licensing companies
that I know of have a list at least containing all anime that they have
released, and most also list future releases.


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Wikipedia has a [list of English licensed
manga](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_licensed_in_English). I know
of no standard list of manga available, but a google search for
buying/downloading manga in `google.com` (English), `google.co.uk` or
`google.ca` will yield English manga sites, and `google.de`, German manga
sites. If you can get to a manga shop or a comic book shop (less likely, but
some comic book shops do stock translated manga), ask them for information on
new releases in English (or German if you are in Germany) as they will have
details on new manga and will stock in the native language of course.


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