Having worked for manga publishers in the past, you should be prepared to wait six months even if they actually want your project. There will be no communication until then, because it goes on a giant pile, and editors will eventually go through it and find yours. When they find it is a matter of luck of the draw. If your mailed piece gets put on the top of the pile when it comes in and the editor doesn't sort through, you are lucky and get a fast reply. Once they see it, you may get a rejection letter with a response (if they liked it enough, but felt you needed to re-pitch with new story or art. They will tell you what the problem is). I've not seen one of these myself, so I'm not sure how helpful they are. If it's not up to scratch at all, they don't give you a response. Otherwise, they apologise for the wait and tell you whether they want that story or want another but want to start paying you for developing manga with the editor. The other way of going about it is making sure you're already popular online. Then you will get approached by editors and publishers who can see a fanbase who will make a reasonable amount back without them taking the risk. Pitching complete books is always better than pitching ideas with samples. If you can get the book self-printed (just enough copies to send around and keep a master yourself), it will have more impact once it's sent off to the publisher, they prefer a finished piece they may have to edit to one that they have to help along and pay for as it's being produced. Publishing online is more a weekly affair, but you can do e-issues fortnightly or even more rarely. It's best to update often and on time with online publishing, because it's not physical, people are less reminded of it and will walk away after a while. You can host your own website, publish via Deviantart, Tumblr or any image-hosting service for weekly/fortnightly updated chapters. Remember also manga comes in short chapters (12 to 18 pages are not rare). Or you can self-publish on Amazon Kindle. They do allow comics and manga, and you'd be hitting a niche market. REMEMBER formatting. Publishing of any kind requires you to know the formatting requirements. This is especially true if you're pitching to a publisher and you're drawing by hand. Japan has very regulated sizes for manga printing, but it seems the Western market wants to make it hard for people to multi-publish. Most publishers have their own requirements, so any pitch you make, your attached pages have to be in their sizing. You can find a list of all manga publishers by simply googling manga publishers. Tokyopop is largely defunct as a publisher of new material at the moment, but you can always check back in case they start up again. Several self-started publishers have began, but look over pay rates carefully as many only offer royalties. That aside, I'd like to see a sample of your art (not just character drawings, actual sequential pages) in order to give you a firm answer on whether you should bother yet. A lot of artists can draw characters reasonably well, but continuity and backgrounds for pages become a problem. If you have this problem, you will need a paid editor/background artist on hand before you make the pitch.