Vertical held a panel during this weekend’s Anime NYC event, taking the opportunity to announce more manga from Knights of Sidonia and BLAME! author Tsutomu Nihei. This time it’s a U.S. print release of Nihei’s APOSIMZ manga, which is currently being published digitally courtesy of …Read more »
Featured Spotlight Whether you've seen the Netflix-streaming anime adaptation or not, Tsutomu Nihei's original Knights of Sidonia manga is in a world of its own. Known for beautifully dark sci-fi stories with style to spare, Nihei takes the story of humanity trying its best to survive, …Read more »
Vertical Inc. had a few licenses to announce during this weekend's Anime Expo 2015, including some more manga and novels. One of them will bring more Attack on Titan our way in the form of Attack on Titan: Lost Girls . This book has anime …Read more »
The end of an era is at hand (or paw, rather) – Kanata Konami's Chi’s Sweet Home , the tale of titular feline Chi and her life with her owners the Yamadas – will wrap up this June, according to Kodansha. The final volume, set …Read more »
Wolfsmund volume five was all about the siege of the notorious, seemingly impenetrable Sankt Gotthard Pass, home to the vile bailiff Wolfram. It was pretty much non-stop action, with Walter leading the charge and helping his people evade every last attempt at keeping them out …Read more »
The search for Paperboy is getting even more intense in the second volume of Tetsuya Tsutsui's Prophecy , a gripping tale of cyber crimes and an increasingly complex search for the person(s) behind them. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's Anti Cyber Crimes Division—under the expert, …Read more »
Now seems like the perfect time for Tetsuya Tsutsui's Prophecy manga to make its way to English readers. First published in France in 2012, Prophecy concerns an enigmatic online video streamer who calls out people and companies for their wrongdoings and exacts his own style …Read more »
The "Demon of Surgery" is back in Vertical Inc.'s latest volume of Black Jack and, unfortunately, there's only one more to go after this one. Don't let that get you down, though, as volume 16 packs nearly 350 pages of unlicensed surgical action into yet …Read more »
Anime series weren't the only pickups announced at this past weekend's Anime Weekend Atlanta convention. Manga publisher Vertical Inc. let its latest acquisition be known, as well: Flowers of Evil ( Aku no Hana ). Flowers of Evil is an ongoing series by Shuzou Oshimi, …Read more »
File Vertical Inc. Osamu Tezuka releases under "things I can't get enough of." I'm sure the same can be said for many of you readers out there, and Vertical knows this well. Hence the addition of Tezuka's 1953-1956 shoujo series Princess Knight to their ever-expanding …Read more »
Here's some manga acquisition news for ya straight out of Anime Weekend Atlanta. At their Sunday panel, Vertical announced the addition of Jiro Matsumoto's Velveteen & Mandara to their manga lineup. The story follows the titular pair of Velveteen and Mandara—the former (known as Becchin …Read more »
Sentai Filmworks just keeps rolling out with solid acquisition announcements, and their latest is no exception. On Friday, they announced that they've acquired the rights to the 2009 Guin Saga anime, which is based on the 151-volume novel series by the late Kaoru Kurimoto. Directed …Read more »
Now we can finally stop speculating about Ed Chavez's hint-hint tweets regarding the next big title from Vertical. We knew it would be Tezuka, and that it would come in at around 700 pages in length, but now we know the actual title in question: …Read more »
Before I read Walking Your Way to a Better Life (released by Vertical in August) I'd never heard of a walking class, let alone "face yoga," but apparently these kinds of classes are common in Japan. Kimiko (the book's single-name author) was once an average …Read more »
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