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A thesis is more than a report because it has a purpose or assertion. Well, at least all the thesis at my university are like that. They are not "book reports". So, if you were making a thesis about female erotica authors in Japan, you situation has the tail wagging the dog; since instead of voluntarily limiting your scope, you are forced to limit your scope. Such a situation will be noticed by your thesis review Board. Otherwise, it is known there are female authors from the medieval times, thus if you don't have coverage of them for each 30 year period since then, your thesis defense would get immediate point deduction. I say 30 because that is a safe number falling under the age median offsets but you might choose differently based upon what your thesis is asserting.

Importantly, a real university thesis is supposed to have original content in it. If it is a rehash of everyone else's work, then at my master's board, it's best score would be close to flunking. Thus, you need access to some raw data at least. Limiting it to modern scope is necessary since you will avoid having to visit japanese libraries in person to do research. They do have digitized records, but those are expensive and not even my extensive worldwide database access has that stuff on it (thus, you probably have to be in japan to access those).

If your thesis's purpose is examining the growth and/or popularity and/or marketability and/or readership type and/or readership growth and/or including results from any of the accepted scientific social measurement standards (don't know if japan has them as compared to the usa), then that would be one topic worthy of a thesis. Such a thesis would be referenced by others which would hopefully increase your name recognition.

Let's establish a baseline of reference sources that you are using since you haven't mentioned that you have any. First, if you refuse to travel any real distance for such a foreign language oriented topic, you have:

0. your university thesis advisor
1. scholar.google.com
2. google.jp
3. scholar.google.co.jp
4. your university thesis catalog
5. your university database access
6. your local library database services
7. local community college database access
8. local university japanese professors

You notice I put your university professors last for a reason. You need to have built up a good set of questions and thought about them to construct a useful interview format before going to each professor. By the time you have done cursory inspections of #0 to #7, you will now know what to ask whereas before you didn't even know you needed to ask certain things.

Do not forget the earnings records of prominent manga artists. Their income tax records are published on a yearly basis in more than one japanese business publication. Thus, you can easily see that Rumiko Takahashi has always outearned Hayao Miyazaki by a huge amount EVERY year. These types of records give you an idea of the market cap's scaling which I assume you need in your type of thesis since you will not travel to japan to get access to other types of information on which to base certain assertions in your thesis. Now someone give me another -1 reputation for my post.