Preferred manga chapter length

I’m curious what chapter lengths for manga everyone prefers. Obviously it can depend on the difficulty of the manga and the density of text on the pages, but just asking for general preference.

  • 1-5 pages
  • 6-10 pages
  • 11-15 pages
  • 16-20 pages
  • 21-30 pages
  • 31-40 pages
  • 41-50 pages
  • 51+ pages
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Personally, I like 8-10 pages for 4-koma and anywhere from high 10s to high 20s for standard manga. Some manga I read tend to average around 24-28 pages which is great. Some even as high as 30-32 pages are okay, but once it gets beyond that I find it can be hard to finish the chapter in one sitting (particularly if it’s text heavy or requires lookups).

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I’ve never paid attention to the page length and I don’t think I care as long as it isn’t ridiculously short or long.

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I haven’t really noticed but I like to have 4-6 chapters in a volume, so that should put me in the range of 10-30 pages. :thinking: I don’t read 4-koma but since those are mostly about comedy (correct me if I am wrong) fewer pages are probably better, so a topic doesn’t get milked to infinity. :thinking:

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Yeah, 4-koma are mostly comedy. They are also much more dense on average than a standard manga, so the shorter length is important for that reason as well. Every once in a while there will be a much longer chapter (e.g. double length; 16 pages), sometimes for story-critical chapters, but I don’t see that very often.

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I’ve been reading more in magazines lately, and feel like I’m not really getting my money’s worth when it’s less than 16 pgs (cough FGO). For 単行本 it doesn’t matter so much tho.

When it’s something new, or that I’m only moderately into, I feel like get tired somewhere around 20-30 pgs… So my ideal is probably somewhere in there.

If I’m really into it, I don’t mind 31-40 pgs. More than that reminds me of light novel authors who write 100+ pg chapters :upside_down_face:

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It’s funny, I’m still the only one who voted for 6-10 pages because I love 4-koma manga.

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The only 4-koma I have any good memory of are Bocchi & New Game (much longer than 6-10 pgs per chapter) and Tomo-chan (4 pgs?). Definitely worked great for Tomo-chan.

So I can’t really relate on that one. I’d ask for recs, but I’m in the middle of too many things rn lol

Bocchi the Rock and New Game both have primarily 8 page chapters. :joy:

Tomo-chan ranges from roughly 14-22 pages in the first volume, but maybe it was broken down differently before it was bound into volumes.

For when you do want more 4-koma, my recommendations are in this list.

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Apparently we should never trust me with chapter lengths :joy::joy::joy: they feel like a really long 8 pgs then… Which I guess is your point

I give up :joy:

Ahhh I’m pretty sure I’ve looked through that b4. Like 3/4 is on my wishlist (or read). Thx

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Yes indeed. 4-koma tend to be a lot denser than normal manga, so those 8 pages can feel more like 20. I would not want to read a Kirara series that regularly had actual 20 page chapters.

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I never thought about it, as I generally read by volume and I will stop reading if I get tired/bored even in the middle of a chapter. For things I follow as it comes out I would prefer it to be as long as possible, so that’s what I voted

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