Kodansha USA


Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC is a publishing company based in New York, US, and a subsidiary of Japan's largest publishing company Kodansha. Established in July 1st 2008, Kodansha USA publishes books relating to Japan, Japanese culture, and manga, the latter under their Kodansha Manga imprint.
In 2020, Kodansha announced that it had consolidated Kodansha Advanced Media and Vertical into Kodansha USA Publishing, with Kodansha Advanced Media general manager Alvin Lu becoming the president and CEO of Kodansha USA Publishing.
On March 9, 2021, Kodansha USA Publishing announced it had rebranded and relaunched its website, and unified Kodansha Comics, Kodansha USA International, and Vertical under the Kodansha name, and Kodansha Comics being renamed Kodansha Manga.

Kodansha Manga

Kodansha Manga is an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing who are responsible for the localization and publication of Kodansha's manga. Established in 2009, the imprint was established to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Kodansha. The imprint's launching titles were Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow and Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo, both of which were previously published in English by Dark Horse Comics.
Kodansha Comics later began to acquire series that were previously published by Tokyopop, after their licenses were made to expire by Kodansha. Although bearing the Kodansha name, Kodansha Comics was not intended to be the sole distributor of Kodansha titles, with Del Rey Manga publishing many of Kodansha's titles until the company was shut down in 2010. After the shut down of Del Rey Manga on October 4, 2010, Kodansha Comics gradually began to publish some Del Rey Manga titles, with Random House acting as the distributor for the imprint.
On March 9, 2021, Kodansha Comics was renamed Kodansha Manga.

Vertical

Vertical is a Japanese novel and manga imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing. Founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai, in February 2011, the company was bought by Kodansha and Dai Nippon Printing. The company was consolidated into Kodansha USA Publishing in 2020.

Titles

Vertical, Inc. publishes books from a variety of genres, including prose fiction, manga, nonfiction, crafts, and cooking.

Novels

  • A Caring Man
  • A Rabbit's Eyes
  • Ashes
  • Attack on Titan: Before the Fall
  • Attack on Titan: Harsh Mistress of the City
  • Attack on Titan: Lost Girls
  • The Blade of the Courtesans
  • Body
  • The Cage
  • The Cat in the Coffin
  • City of Refuge
  • The Crimson Labyrinth
  • Edge
  • ENMA the Immortal
  • Fallout
  • The Flowers of Edo
  • Gray Men
  • Guin Saga
  • A Guru is Born
  • Innocent World
  • Monogatari series
  • Kubikiri Cycle
  • Lala Pipo
  • May in the Valley of the Rainbow
  • The Mediterranean Trilogy
  • Naoko
  • Now You're One of Us
  • Outlet
  • Paradise
  • Parasite Eve
  • The Poison Ape
  • Pro Bono
  • Promenade of the Gods
  • The Ring Trilogy
  • Sayonara, Gangsters
  • Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: Catastrophe at Sixteen
  • Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose: World Resurrection at Nineteen
  • Shinjuku Shark
  • Summer of the Ubume
  • Translucent Tree
  • Twinkle Twinkle
  • Winter Sleep
  • ''Zero Over Berlin''

    Short story collections

  • Birthday
  • Boy
  • Dark Water
  • ''Season of Infidelity''

    Non-fiction and miscellaneous

  • A Slow Death
  • Aranzi Aranzo
  • The Honda Myth
  • Iron Chef Chen's Knockout Chinese
  • J-Horror
  • Nintendo Magic
  • North Korea Kidnapped My Daughter
  • Saying Yes to Japan
  • Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!
  • Slow Sex Secrets
  • The Toyota Leaders
  • Walking Your Way to a Better Life

Manga

  • 5 Centimeters Per Second
  • 7 Billion Needles
  • A School Frozen in Time
  • An Older Guy's VR First Love
  • After the Rain
  • Ajin: Demi-Human
  • Andromeda Stories
  • Avant-garde Yumeko
  • Ayako
  • Apollo's Song
  • Black Jack
  • Blame!
  • Blood on the Tracks
  • The Book of Human Insects
  • Buddha
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard
  • Chi's Sweet Home
  • Ciguatera
  • CITY
  • Devil's Line
  • Dissolving Classroom
  • Don't Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro
  • Dororo
  • Dream Fossil
  • The Drops of God
  • The Flowers of Evil
  • Flying Witch
  • From the New World
  • The Garden of Words
  • A Girl on the Shore
  • Go with the Clouds, North by Northwest
  • The Gods Lie
  • The Great Cleric
  • GTO: 14 Days in Shonan
  • GTO: The Early Years
  • The Guin Saga Manga: The Seven Magi
  • Helter Skelter
  • Heroman
  • Immortal Hounds
  • In Clothes Called Fat
  • Insufficient Direction
  • Knights of Sidonia
  • Limit
  • Lychee Light Club
  • Message to Adolf
  • Miss Miyazen Would Love to Get Closer to You
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz - Glory of the Losers
  • Moteki
  • Mysterious Girlfriend X
  • MW
  • My Neighbor Seki
  • My Boy
  • Ninja Slayer
  • Nichijou
  • No Longer Human
  • Ode to Kirihito
  • Paradise Kiss
  • Peepo Choo
  • Pink
  • Pop Team Epic
  • Princess Knight
  • Prophecy
  • Sakuran
  • Sickness Unto Death
  • Summer Wars
  • To Terra...
  • Tokyo ESP
  • Tropic of the Sea
  • The Twin Knights
  • To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts
  • Twin Spica
  • Utsubora: The Story of a Novelist
  • Velveteen & Mandala
  • What Did You Eat Yesterday?
  • Witchcraft Works
  • Wolfsmund

Kodansha Advanced Media

Kodansha Advanced Media, LLC was an American distribution company, based in San Francisco, and established on December 4, 2014. The company was a subsidiary of Kodansha, and a sister company of Kodansha USA Publishing. Kodansha Advanced Media handled the digital distribution of Kodansha Comics manga, as well as digital distribution of select Vertical titles. Kodansha Advanced Media also maintained the Kodansha Comics website.
Kodansha Advanced Media was established in 2014 with funding from Kodansha USA Publishing in order to handle the digital distribution of Kodansha Comics' manga titles in English. In February 2015, Kodansha and Digital Garage announced a joint venture to distribute manga digitally in North America, establishing a Japanese-based joint venture company to invest in digital distribution services, and using Kodansha Advanced Media to distribute manga via websites and smartphone apps. Kodansha Advanced Media is also responsible for handling film releases and events, and in 2015, were responsible for releasing an app for Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches for English-speaking audiences.
In response to piracy, Kodansha Advanced Media simul-translated and simul-published Kodansha Comics titles, as well as released certain titles on digital platforms prior to physical printing. In December 2015, Kodansha Advanced Media announced that they had made Kodansha Comics titles available in North American public libraries digitally through OverDrive.