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Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part 1 by Ryo Kawakami, Range Murata, Hajime Isayama

Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 11: A Cosmic Glow by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, hAJIME Yatate

Knights of Sidonia, Volume 14 by Tsutomu Nihei

Eternal Zero by Naoki Hyakuta

Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 8 by Akira Itou

Aranzi Aronzo - Cuter Stuff by Aranzi Aranzo

KizuMonogatari by Nishio Ishin, Vofan

Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 12: Encounters by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Yoshiyuki Tomino, hAJIME Yatate

Seraph of the End, 1 by Takaya Kagami, Yamato Yamamoto

The Shield of Straw by Kazuhiro Kiuchi

My Neighbor Seki, 4 by Takuma Morishige

Tokyo ESP, volume 1 by Hajime Segawa

Witchcraft Works, Volume 7 by Ryu Mizunagi

Ninja Slayer, Part 1: Machine of Vengeance by Bradley Bond, Phillip N. Morzez, Yuuki Yogo


Tokyo ESP, volume 2 by Hajime Segawa

Witchcraft Works, Volume 8 by Ryu Mizunagi

Ninja Slayer, Part 2: Last Girl Standing by Bradley Bond, Phillip N. Morzez, Yuuki Yogo

A Girl on the Shore by Inio Asano


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Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part 1

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FICTION / Fantasy /

General

9781941220627

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Paperback, Trade

General Trade

200 pages

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Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part

1

By (author): Ryo Kawakami

Illustrated by: Range Murata

Created by: Hajime Isayama

Aug 25, 2015 | Forthcoming $13.95 CAD

Another YA fantasy title based off the bestselling manga Attack on Titan. A sequel to the manga featuring a new cast and setting, we expect a lot of sales coming from the teen fantasy/scifi section but also expect demand to be high in the special markets side, particularly Diamond. As an original story within the Titan universe it should attract new readers particularly with its strong female lead.

With Wall Maria breeched, communities within the Quinta district have been cut off from each other creating famine and chaos. A young field commander named Rita is tasked with a mission to reconnect transit across the massive district while putting her troops and residence right in

the vanguard as Titans descend on her town.

Story Locale: The Distant Future

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Born in 1976, Ryo Kawakami is a novelist and game author. A graduate of the Kobe University

School of Business, Kawakami initially broke into the media scene by working with Japanese

roleplaying game maker The SNE Group.

After writing numerous light novels and RPG game replay books, Kawakami would take on a broader audience by writing the script to the award winning game CATHERINE by Atlus (Best

Video Game Story 2011 IGN Magazine/PlayStation3 Game of the Year Onion AV Club). The

Harsh Mistress is his most recent novel and first in English.

Author Residence: Kobe, Japan

Renji "Range" Murata, born October 2, 1968, is a Japanese artist and designer, known for his unique style combining Art Deco and Japanese anime elements. He is best known for his conceptual design work on anime series Last Exile and Blue Submarine No. 6 . He is also the founder of the global comic art anthology ROBOT.He is also voted "Best Artist of the Year" 2006 in the Nebula Award for best Art in the Field of Science Fiction.

Illustrator Hometown: Osaka, Japan

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Banner ads on top anime and manga sites.

Preview in Locus Magazine and Tor.com.

Crosspromotion with Funimation.

Possible limited edition hardcover sold through Funimation.com, to be sold along side their DVD boxsets and other Titan merchandise.

Publicity: Major push to mainstream media, with story on how Attack on Titan is resonanting so

well with the current political and cultural situation in postquake Japan.

Heavy promotion on Vertical Inc. tumblr site.

Cosplay events and panel discussions at anime/manga events throughout North America

AnimeNext (New York), Otakon (DC), AnimeExpo (Los Angeles), AnimeWeekend Atlanta

(Georgia).

Feature Website: http://bit.ly/1yMPImF

Author Website: http://bit.ly/1DaFmhc

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Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 11

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COMICS & GRAPHIC

NOVELS / Media TieIn

9781941220467

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Hardcover

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372 pages

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A Cosmic Glow

By (author): Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Created by: Yoshiyuki Tomino

Producer: hAJIME Yatate

Sep 15, 2015 | Forthcoming $33.95 CAD

The biggest name in Japanese sciencefiction, Gundam, returns with one of its creators retelling its origins through an epic graphic novel series 35 years after the series

debuted.

In a civil war, half of humanity has been wiped out, and Zeon’s army of Zaku mobile suits have been the decisive weapon. With the Federation’s first Gundam out of action, civilian Amuro Ray miraculously stumbles on a second unit. Now, in control of a machine with unparalleled destructive power, will Amuro’s actions save the colony’s survivors or destroy them?

Story Locale: Space

Series Overview: Caught in the crossfire of a space civil war, teenager Amuro Ray accidentally finds a new mobile weapon—the RX78 Gundam. To protect himself and his friends he climbs into the cockpit and is immediately thrust into the frontlines defending those he loves from a silent enemy.

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a Japanese animator and manga artist, who also has been noted as a published author and an illustrator of children’s books and young adult books. His career as a character designer has spanned three decades, creating famed characters for such anime as

Space Cruiser Yamato, Brace Raideen, and the widely known Mobile Suit Gundam. Considered a pivotal player in mecha and scifi anime, Yasuhiko’s characters, stories and illustrations are unmistakable in their style and serve as timeless examples as pioneers of manga and

animation in Japan.

Born in 1947, Yasuhiko began his career as an animator in Osama Tezuka’s Mushi

Productions, and later on decided to go freelance to work for a number of animation productions for both film and television. In 1981, he took home a Seiun award for Best Artist of the Year.

Praise and accolades continued for Yasuhiko, when he took home the Nippon Mangaka Kyokai

(Japan Cartoonists Society) award in 1992, followed by an Excellence Prize in manga for Ōdō no Inu at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2000. Continuing his work with Gundam, Yasuhiko has written the manga Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin as well as providing character design for

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.

Author Residence: Tokyo, Japan

Author Hometown: Hokkaido, Japan

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Advertising online at anime portals such as AnimeNewsNetwork, CrunchyRoll.com and Japanator.

Bandai Entertainment, the Japanese licensors of Gundam, have a dediated YouTube channel

for the Gundam brand along with its many animated films and TV series.

Bandai Toys currently have all of the robot/mecha figures from Gundam the Origin available for sale at ToysrUs, B&N and online.

Publicity: Gundam the animation is a regular fixture of the Cartoon Network with two or three series usually running in syndication every year. In 2015 the first of 4 new Gundam the ORIGIN movies will premiere globally (april 2015).

Feature Website: www.gundamtheorigin.net/

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Knights of Sidonia

Knights of Sidonia, Volume 14

By (author): Tsutomu Nihei COMICS & GRAPHIC

NOVELS / Manga / Science

Fiction

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One of the manga world’s most intriguing artists returns with a sciencefiction tour de force which combines post apocolyptic action, modern scifi video game tropes and a traditional Japanese aesthetic in The Knights of Sidonia.

In his follow up to the hit Biomega series, Tsutomu Nihei tackles the world of hard science

fiction by creating a modern space comedy inspired by the genre’s hits from his youth.

Story Locale: Space

Series Overview: Nagate Tanikaze is the lead fighter pilot protecting said space colony from a race of shapeshifting space giants!

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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Tsutomu Nihei is an internationally known Japanese comic artist and draftsman. Born in 1971,

Nihei made his debut in the comics world as the winner of the 1995 Afternoon Magazine Four

Seasons Award for short stories. He then briefly worked as an assistant to veteran comicker

Tsutomu Takahashi before making his breakthrough hit BLAME! (published by Tokyopop).

The BLAME! franchise was so well received worldwide, that it inspired an animated miniseries and eventually drew the attention of Marvel Comics in the US. Nihei would later go on to draw

Wolverine (XMen) and HALO comics for Marvel to great fanfare. An architectural student,

Nihei’s early work were mainly wordless, relying on visuals and backgrounds to tell their stories.

Now, his works are deeply rooted in hard sciencefiction, as was seen in the multiple NY Times

Bestselling books HALO: The Graphic Novel (published by Marvel Comics) and BIOmega

(published by Viz Media).


Author Hometown: Fukushima, Japan

REVIEWS

“With strong, bold line work, an eye for detail and a fantastic sense for worldbuilding, Knights of

Sidonia is a sciencefiction story with some intriguing twists on those wellworn story tropes…

Nihei’s thoughtful treatment and measured approach to his artwork makes this a whole new experience”—NEO Magazine (U.K.)

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Avertising in Diamond Previews.

Web advertising at Tor.com and Robot 6.

Online promos to be distributed through Tor.com and Comics Alliance

Posters featuring original art from the series will be distributed at events throughout the spring.

Publicity: Tsutomu Nihei is a renowned international comic artist who has worked on such

projects as XMen’s Wolverine and Bungie’s HALO graphic novel.

New animated TV series to be distributed and produced by NetFlix with the second season debuting June 2015. Series averaging around 750,000 views per episode.

Feature Website: www.knightsofsidonia.com/

Author Social Media: twitter.com/tsutomu_nihei

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Eternal Zero

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FICTION / War & Military

9781939130822

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Eternal Zero

By (author): Naoki Hyakuta

Oct 27, 2015 | Forthcoming $29.99 CAD

A multimillion unit seller in Japan, Forever Zero is a historical fiction look at the atrocities of the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero Fighter (best known for the Kamikaze

Bombers).

With the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II sibling journalists Kentaro and Keiko are given an opportunity to research the death of their astranged grandfather. Apparently he may have been a Kamikaze bomber, but there is much more to his story than just his death. His

story is one of family, love and pacifism in the skies above the Pacific.

Story Locale: World War II Japan


Naoki Hyakuta is a veteran author and news writer. Born in 1956 in the southern Japanese city of Osaka, Hyakuta is a dropout from Doshisha University. While still studying at Doshisha, he made his acting debut for the TV series “Love Attack”. And upon entering the media industry, he would leave college to begin his writing career for the TV series “Detective: Night Scoop!”, on which he would write for twentyfive years.

He would turn his attention to prose in 2006. He would then come to pick up a Eiji Yoshikawa

Award fo New Literature in 2009.

In 2013, he was awarded the Japan Megane Award for Literature for Forever Zero


Author Hometown: Osaka, Japan

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Print promotion through Strange Horizons.

Publicity: Forever Zero has been adapted into a motion picture. The movie will debut in Japan

by December 2013. Limited screenings will be held overseas starting Spring 2014.

Final copies to be distributed to reviewers.

Author Website: http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/books/topics/eiennozero/

Author Social Media: twitter.com/hyakutanaoki

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Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 8

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COMICS & GRAPHIC


9781941220139

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Paperback, Trade

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Cardfight Vanguard

Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 8

By (author): Akira Itou

Nov 03, 2015 | Forthcoming $11.95 CAD

Cardfight!! Vanguard is the latest from the creator of the bestselling comic and trading card game YuGiOh! Vanguard skews toward teens, both male and female, and should be a pillar for manga sections as well as comic book stores and board game stores worldwide. The trading card game already has monthly tournaments across the US,

Singapore and Southern Europe with more than a hundredthousand active players.

The basis of the hit trading card game and animation franchise, Cardfight!! Vanguard is a

modern fantasy tale of trading card playing and making friends through gaming.

Story Locale: Tokyo, Japan

Series Overview: Aichi Sendo competes in the winner take all world of trading card battles with his new found friends.


Akira Itou is a writer, gamer, and international bestselling comic artist. Over the last decade his work has been associated with some of the world’s most popular trading card games YuGiOh and Vanguard.

Raised in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Itou cut his teeth as an assistant for Studio Dice and YuGiOh creator Kazuki Takahashi. After working as an assistant on the original YuGiOh comic, Itoh would evnetually come to draw the YuGiOh sequel YuGiOh R. The series was a regular feature in Shonen Jump Magazine for four years and significantly expanded the brand from comic for teens to fullblown gaming narrative. After working with the YuGiOh franchise for nearly a decade, Itoh would pair up with Japanese trading card leaders BushiRoad to develop a new card game Vanguard. Vanguard would premiere as a serialized manga in 2010 to lay the foundation for a TRPG which would debut globally February 2011. The brand has spunoff a weekly primetime animated TV series, which is currently available globally in English on

YouTube, with Itou as part of the production team.

Author Residence: Nagoya, Japan

Author Hometown: Nagoya, Japan

Promotion Plans

Marketing: BushiRoad the creators of VANGUARD are currently doing advertising online, in print and on billboards across the US, Canada and SouthEast Asia.

Vertical will also be packing in a limited edition trading card with each volume of the manga series.

Publicity: The seventh season of the Vanguard animated TV series debuted 2014. New episodes are planned through May 2015. The series is currently hosted on its own YouTube channel. The animated series is averaging around 80,000 views per episode.

The creators of VANGUARD have toured the US previously attending conventions such as

AnimeExpo, San Diego ComicCon and New York ComicCon to host card events and have public interviews. More events are planned for 2014.

Feature Website: cfvanguard.com/en/

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CRAFTS & HOBBIES /

Toymaking

9781941220597

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80 pages

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Aranzi Aronzo Cuter Stuff

By (author): Aranzi Aranzo


Aranzi Aronzo is a D.I.Y. crafts company that made its debut in the US with The Cute

Book , which has been widely received from the online community to major book retailers, and to positive acclaim. The followup to their 2008 megahit Cute Stuff , Cuter

Stuff is the latest craft goodies book from the internationally beloved crafts duo.

The Aranzi Aronzo books teach you how to make your own toys, accessories, purses, tshirts, etc. using easy to find materials and household objects, but the books also include short narratives featuring the unique, sometimes bizarre characters you’ve just handmade.


Aranzi Aronzo claim to be a MexicanJapanese man and Norwegian VietnameseIndian man, working at securities firms and playing the tambourine fulltime. What we do know about them, however, is that they are actually two sisters—Kinuyo Saito and Yoko Yomura—who create

mischief and fun through highcute (as in “high art”) crafts and comics.

Besides having created and maintained a multimillion dollar independent enterprise of

“Japanese cute” materials, stories, home accessories, furniture, dolls, and even alcohols,

Aranzi Aronzo have also been responsible for the mascot design of the Aichi World Expo 2005.


Author Hometown: Osaka, Japan

REVIEWS

“Japanese craft, character and product studio Aranzi Aronzo Inc. takes the fluidity (of indie craft movements) a step further. In addition to all manner of goods featuring their strange and wonderful creatures, they sell books on how to make your own crafts starring those characters.

The Aranzi Aronzo world is a fluid reality where photo postcards depict their felt dolls in scale staring contemplatively out train windows, playing precariously with cigarettes and matches, and pausing on the way to another dull day at the office.” CRAFT Magazine

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Merchandise ranging from canvas totes and fabrics, to mugs and stationery

available in prepacks and from the official Aranzi Aranzo website.

Promotional Goods Posters, toys, tchotkes, sample pattern postcards.

Aranzi Aranzo catalogs also available.

Publicity: Relaunch of the English Aranzi Aronzo website.

Currently the Japanese website is linked to from over 20 English language craft sites.

Author Website: www.aranziaronzo.com/.

Author Social Media: www.facebook.com/aranziaronzo

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KizuMonogatari

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FICTION / Fantasy /

Contemporary

9781941220979

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Paperback, Trade

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(years) from 14, Grade (US) from 9

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Monogatari

KizuMonogatari

By (author): Nishio Ishin

Illustrated by: Vofan


A standalone prequel to the leading series by the 33yearold novelist whose first printings are now second only to Haruki Murakami’s, this story about a blond female vampire on a “tourist visit” to the country is being adapted into an animated feature for

Japanese theatrical release in late 2015/early 2016.

High schooler Koyomi, encountering a dying vampire on his way home from purchasing age restricted magazines, offers his blood, turns into a thrall, and must face the three vampire hunters who have stolen his mistress’s limbs.

Story Locale: Japan


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There are few authors in Japan who have reached the heights of success as NisiOisin. Born in

1981, Nisio dropped out of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, to pursue a career in storytelling.

Initially he had ambitions to be a comic artist, but when he realized his art was not up to snuff, he began to focus on his writing, eventually winning the 23rd Mephisto Prize, for Kubikiri Cycle

(Del Rey) recognizing his talents as a mystery writer, at the age of 20. Since his debut in 2002

Nisio has penned more than 50 novels and a number of comics. And he has quickly become one of Japan’s top selling author’s in recent memory with more than 5 million units sold since

2009. In 2014, as in 2012, he was the top selling author in Japan (outselling Haruki Murakami by

more than half a million units).

Nishio’s works often cover themes of youth, but are framed in genres that are familiar to the masses. His works tend to mix mystery with comedy and touches or romance and/or the supernatural. He is a modern author in every sense, sometimes even experiementing with the

Japanese language itself.

Many of his works have been adapted into animated television series and films. His best known works are the Monogatari series and Katanagatari.


Promotion Plans

Marketing: Packaging and design by Peter Mendelsund.

Launch event at New York Comic Con 2015: Monogatari will be a priority title at Vertical’s booth at NYCC. Promotional material featuring Monogatari Vofan will be distributed to attendees and a panel with the series’ editor will be hosted at the event.

Advertising in print and online will be coordinated beginning midOctober 2015.

Publicity: Distributed in the US by SONY Entertainment’s Aniplex USA, their Monogatari

DVD/BluRay releases have long been hits with fans and bestsellers in the direct market as well as Amazon. With a coordinated film release to launch soon, streamed through Bandai

Entertainment’s DAISUKI streaming service, after the book release, interest should remain high from a broad range of retail channels.

Interviews with the Monogatari series’ editor will be arranged with Publishers Weekly, Otaku

USA, Suvudu and Anime News Network.

Feature Website: www.kizumonogatarimovie.com/

Author Social Media: twitter.com/NISIOISIN_info

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Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 12

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9781941220474

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Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 12

Encounters

By (author): Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

Created by: Yoshiyuki Tomino

Producer: hAJIME Yatate

Dec 15, 2015 | Forthcoming $33.95 CAD

The biggest name in Japanese sciencefiction, Gundam, returns with one of its creators retelling its origins through an epic graphic novel series 35 years after the series

debuted.

In a civil war, half of humanity has been wiped out, and Zeon’s army of Zaku mobile suits have been the decisive weapon. With the Federation’s first Gundam out of action, civilian Amuro Ray miraculously stumbles on a second unit. Now, in control of a machine with unparalleled destructive power, will Amuro’s actions save the colony’s survivors or destroy them?

Story Locale: Space

Series Overview: Caught in the crossfire of a space civil war, teenager Amuro Ray accidentally finds a new mobile weapon—the RX78 Gundam. To protect himself and his friends he climbs into the cockpit and is immediately thrust into the frontlines defending those he loves from a silent enemy.

On Sale Date: Dec 15, 2015

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Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a Japanese animator and manga artist, who also has been noted as a published author and an illustrator of children’s books and young adult books. His career as a character designer has spanned three decades, creating famed characters for such anime as

Space Cruiser Yamato, Brace Raideen, and the widely known Mobile Suit Gundam. Considered a pivotal player in mecha and scifi anime, Yasuhiko’s characters, stories and illustrations are unmistakable in their style and serve as timeless examples as pioneers of manga and

animation in Japan.

Born in 1947, Yasuhiko began his career as an animator in Osama Tezuka’s Mushi

Productions, and later on decided to go freelance to work for a number of animation productions for both film and television. In 1981, he took home a Seiun award for Best Artist of the Year.

Praise and accolades continued for Yasuhiko, when he took home the Nippon Mangaka Kyokai

(Japan Cartoonists Society) award in 1992, followed by an Excellence Prize in manga for Ōdō no Inu at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2000. Continuing his work with Gundam, Yasuhiko has written the manga Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin as well as providing character design for

Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn.


Author Hometown: Hokkaido, Japan

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Advertising online at anime portals such as AnimeNewsNetwork, CrunchyRoll.com and Japanator.

Bandai Entertainment, the Japanese licensors of Gundam, have a dediated YouTube channel

for the Gundam brand along with its many animated films and TV series.

Bandai Toys currently have all of the robot/mecha figures from Gundam the Origin available for sale at ToysrUs, B&N and online.

Publicity: Gundam the animation is a regular fixture of the Cartoon Network with two or three series usually running in syndication every year. In 2015 the first of 4 new Gundam the ORIGIN movies will premiere globally (april 2015).

Feature Website: www.gundamtheorigin.net/

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Seraph of the End, 1

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FICTION / Fantasy / Dark

Fantasy

9781941220986

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Seraph

Seraph of the End, 1

By (author): Takaya Kagami

Illustrated by: Yamato Yamamoto

Jan 05, 2016 | Forthcoming $16.95 CAD

Seraph of the End is a novelized prequel of the hit manga series of the same name, published by Viz Media, and detailing the series of events that occurred eight years before the start of the manga. Full of teen agnst and dark fantasy action, it is a modern tale that properly represents the new Japanese literary genre Light Novels.

Class and social standing has torn lovers Glen and Mahiru apart, but nothing, not monsters or wizards or vampires or even blood will keep these two teens apart in this supernatural high school action romance.

Story Locale: A Futuristic Japan


Takaya Kagami is a prolific light novelist whose works include the action and fantasy series A

Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives , which spawned a manga and anime series, as well as The

Legend of Legendary Heroes , which has also been adapted into manga, anime and a video game.


Author Hometown: Tokyo, Japan

Since 2003 Yamato Yamamoto has been working as a cartoonist and illustrator for one of the world's biggest brands Shonen Jump. She has drawn 6 series of her own, including Seraph of the End Vampire Reign , and has provided illustrations for twenty light novels, from ten different publishers.

Illustrator Residence: Tokyo, Japan

Illustrator Hometown: Ibaraki, Japan

REVIEWS

“Gr 7 Up—This story is filled with action and conflict, both physical and emotional. Readers looking for action will be thrilled by the vampire fight scenes, while readers looking for emotional conflict will be moved. Yamamoto’s blackandwhite illustrations are eyecatching and powerful, capturing architectural details of crumbling cities, extreme closeups of conflicted characters, explosions, and fight scenes with equal skill. By the end of this story, readers will be eager to get to the next titles in this series to find out what will happen.”— School Library Journal

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Web ads on facebook, google adsense and AnimeNews Network

Print ads in Otaku USA and Neo Magazine (UK).

Publicity: Crosspromotion with Viz Media and their comic release. Since summer 2014

Seraph of the End has been a priority title for Viz, as it has been featured in may of their event displays and promotional material. Vertical will also be pushing the series at their many events

starting Summer 2015.

Animation by Shonen Jump and Funimation launches Fall 2015. English language streaming

rights are attached to HULU.

Promotional sample chapter to be distributed at NY ComicCon 2015.

Author Website: http://soybean3.s60.xrea.com/

Author Social Media: twitter.com/owarino_seraph

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The Shield of Straw

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FICTION / Mystery &

Detective / HardBoiled

9781941220559

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The Shield of Straw

By (author): Kazuhiro Kiuchi


The debut novel by comic artist turned crime fiction author Kazuhiro Kiuchi, and more recently the inspiration for the 2013 Cannes Film Palm D’Or finalist movie by legendary film director Takeshi Miike. Shield of Straw is a heartracing thriller that turns a whole nation against one man for vengeance and greed.

Playing on the basic human desires for easy money and grisly vengeance, Shield of Straw is a crime thriller where a group of police officers are assigned to protect an alleged criminal from a nation out to murder him for money.

Story Locale: Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan


Kazuhiro Kiuchi is one of Japan’s more influential pop culture writers. Comic writer, novelist and screenplay writer since the late 80’s Kiuchi has redefined urban fiction in Japan. He single handedly introduced a nation that was obsessed with Yakuza tales to a new generation of troublemakers from the streets known affectionately as yanqui. His breakthrough work, BeBop

High School , sold 70 million units in Japan and spun off a number of TV and film tieins. By the nineties, Kiuchi turned his focus on the world of film, where he honed his skills as a mystery film director and screen writer.

Now in his 50’s, Kikuchi has settled down and gone back to publishing. However instead of toiling over comic art, his works are now hardboiled crime fiction told from a very modern eye.


Author Hometown: Fukuoka, Japan

REVIEWS

“[Shield of Straw] is fairly standard highconcept suspense fare, but it’s entertaining, particularly while some mystery remains about the police unit’s compromised element.” Hollywood

Reporter

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Ads on mystery journals and websites.

Digital ARCs to be distributed.

Publicity: The Shield of Straw movie screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. And is now currently being distributed across the globe through the home video market DVDs are available

in Germany, France, Italy, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and soon in the UK.

Warner Brothers has optioned the novel for movie adaptation.

Mr Kiuchi is a media darling and has often made himself available for events and interviews when requested globally.

Author Social Media: www.facebook.com/Kiuchi.Kazuhiro.BeBop

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My Neighbor Seki, 4

Book Cover

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NOVELS / Manga / Media

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Paperback, Trade

General Trade

180 pages

B/W COMIC

ILLUSTRATIONS

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics

For sale with exclusive rights in: ROW

Not for sale in: AU NZ

OTHER FORMATS

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Availability:


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Seki

My Neighbor Seki, 4

By (author): Takuma Morishige


My Neighbor Seki is a high school comedy manga in the vein of Yotsuba and Azumanga

Daioh. These comics tend to do well through a wide range of manga reading demographics and are often heavily considered for programs like the Scholastic Book

Club.

My Neighbor Seki is a collection of short stories that revolve around two classmates who sit at the back of their high school homeroom. In each chapter Seki devises a new way to kill time in his school desk, to best avoid boredom. And along the way, he ends up distracting the girl who

sits next to him Rumi; who’s mind goes wild as Seki pushes the limits of his disobediance.

Story Locale: Japan

Series Overview: My Neighbor Seki is a 6 volume manga comedy that is set in high school; comedic hijinks that revolve around pair of teens who are constantly finding new and inventive ways to kill time in class.


Takuma Morishige was born in Miyazaki prefecture back in 1978. A professional comic artist, he earned an engineering degree from the University of Hiroshima. While Morishige has been working as a comic artist since 2001, he is best known for his work on My Neighbor Seki and for being the brother to the awardwinning comic artist Akiko Higashimura. Morishige even appears as a character in Higashimura’s autobiographical comic “Himawari…” In 2000 Morishige’s debut project, Life Arts , was a finalist selection for the Chiba Tetsuya Comic Award. He would then turn his attention towards manga creation fulltime in 2001. He has since developed six series, most of them being comedies.

Author Residence: Hiroshima, Japan

Author Hometown: Miyazaki, Japan

REVIEWS

“Vertical Comics finds the ultimate classroom distraction. My Neighbor Seki is a very funny title.

Most of the gags are visual, though Yoyoi’s narration really adds to the humor. Readers of any age will enjoy it.” School Library Journal

Promotion Plans

Marketing: With the help of the animation studio we have created video commercials to promote the comic and cartoon. Videos are currently available on YouTube.

We will be hosting videos on our blog.

Preview chapters will be available in OtakuUSA Magazine and The Huffington Post’s Comics

Alliance.

Print advertising with Otaku USA and Right Stuf International.

Publicity: The My Neighbor Seki animated TV has been distributed in English via the

AnimeNetwork and Crunchyroll.

Vertical will be promoting My Neighbor Seki at San Diego Comic Con and AnimeExpo LA

Feature Website: http://tsekikun.jp/

Author Website: http://blog.goo.ne.jp/4610thinking/

Author Social Media: twitter.com/morisiget

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Tokyo ESP, volume 1

Book Cover

COMICS & GRAPHIC


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Paperback, Trade

General Trade

388 pages

B/W COMIC ART

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics



SUPPLY DETAIL


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Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24

Tokyo ESP

Tokyo ESP, volume 1

By (author): Hajime Segawa


High intensity action and comedy revolving around teens with psychic abilities set in modern day Tokyo, Tokyo ESP is part XMen and part Fairy Tale with vibrant character designs that jump at readers.

High school girl Rinka Urushiba wakes up to find out she has attained extrasensory powers,

and eventually comes to use them against other espers who have begun wage havoc on Tokyo.



Hajime Segawa is a comic artist and character designer based out of Tokyo, Japan. He made is cartooning debut in the March 2005 issue of Kadokawa Publishing’s Monthly Shonen ACE magazine with the shortstory Phantom Kingdom (a comic adaptation of the PlayStation video game Makai Kingdom: Chronicles Of The Sacred Tome ). Response was positive, resulting in a contract to do three more shorts over the next year. By the end of the year, Segawa was well onto developing his first feature length series GAREI ; which would quickly catapult him into stardom. GAREI would continue for more than five years, spinning off a couple sidestories and eventually in 2008 a twelve episode animated TV series.

Tokyo ESP is his second feature length series. Another hit in Japan, it was also recently adapted into a two season animated TV series. The first season debuted July 2014, with the second season set for summer 2015.

Segawa’s works tend to revolve around the supernatural or psychic abilities but are almost always set in modern day Tokyo with teenage leads.



REVIEWS

“Tokyo ESP looks is an allout superpoweredaction fest.” Anime News Network

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Ads for Tokyo ESP to be placed in Diamond Previews.

Preview chapter to be printed in Otaku USA magazine and in NEO Magazine (UK).

Publicity: Tokyo ESP will be Vertical’s primary focus at New York ComicCon 2015 and

AnimeWeekend Atlanta, where the title will be on prominent display.

Crosspromotion with Funimation Studios to be coordinated also. Funimation will be selling DVD sets of the first season in 2015. Video banner links hosted at Vertical and Funimation will direct fans to both versions.

The Tokyo ESP animation is currently streaming on Hulu.

Feature Website: http://bit.ly/1Fk4PpJ

Images

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Tokyo ESP, volume 1

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Witchcraft Works, Volume 7

Book Cover

COMICS & GRAPHIC


9781941220528

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

196 pages

B/W COMIC

ILLUSTRATIONS

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics


SUPPLY DETAIL


Inc.

Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24

Witchcraft Works

Witchcraft Works, Volume 7

By (author): Ryu Mizunagi


Romance comedy manga with supernatural fantasy elements tailor made for young adult manga readers.

Witchcraft Works is a romance comedy set in a modern day world where magic and

supernational powers shape the lives of the kids in this high school.


Series Overview: High schooler Honoka Takamiya finds himself in the middle of a battle between witches…for his body in this 7 volume series.


Very little is publicly known about Ryu Mizunagi but the author’s birthday is March 23rd.

Originally from Aichi, Mizunagi won the Kodansha Four Seasons Manga Award in 2004 with the pilot for Witchcraft Works. Mizunagi was able to continue the project through Kodansha Japan in

2006.

Author Residence: Aichi, Japan

Author Hometown: Aichi, Japan

REVIEWS

“Witchcraft Works is a lot of fun. It’s filled with beautiful art and quirky humor—not to mention that the gender role inversion in mind is never not entertaining. If you like magical school stories like Harry Potter and don’t mind that very little will be explained beyond the surface layer of the plot, Witchcraft Works is very much worth a watch.” Kotaku

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Print advertising and previews in Otaku USA and Locus magazines.

Online promotion with Right Stuf International.

Web banner ads on AnimeNewsNetwork.com

Publicity: Witchcraft Works animated TV has been distributed in English via the Hulu and

Crunchyroll.

Vertical will be promoting Witchcraft Works at AnimeNext (Newark NJ), Otakon (Baltimore MD) and AnimeExpo LA this summer.

Witchcraft Works will be one of Vertical’s spotlight titles at New York Comic Con 2014 where it received great fanfare.

Feature Website: http://www.witchcwanime.jp/

Author Website: http://blog.livedoor.jp/wcworx/index.html

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Ninja Slayer, Part 1

Ninja Slayer

Ninja Slayer, Part 1

Machine of Vengeance

Created by: Bradley Bond

Created by: Phillip N. Morzez

Illustrated by: Yuuki Yogo

Retold by: Yoshiaki Tabata

COMICS & GRAPHIC


TieIn

9781941220931

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

200 pages

B/W COMIC ART COLOR

PLATES

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics



SUPPLY DETAIL


Inc.

Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24


Ninja Slayer is the latest project from the team behind megahits such as Neon Genesis

Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan and the new Cartoon Network hit Kill la Kill. A ninja exploitation project, this manga release is based directly off the original web novels by

Bradley Bond and is one part of a broad mediamix campaign that includes an animated

TV series, novels and a toy line.

A futuristic scifi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hardknocks Tokyo suburb of Neo

Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.

Story Locale: Japan


Born 1968 and currently residing in New York. In the 90s, he became friends with Morzez via the

Internet and they started collaborating. Wellversed in linguistics, history and traditional culture, he is known as the Joseph Campbell of ninja and Nordic mythology as he was the first to draw parallels between the two.

Author Residence: New York, NY

Author Hometown: Hartforn, Conn.

Born 1969. Residing in the suburbs of Los Angeles. He coauthored the novel with Bond to blow the whistle on the menace of ninja. With a PhD in computer engineering, he brings authenticity

to the cyberpunk references in the novel. Loves apple pie.

Reader Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Reader Hometown: Long Beach, CA

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Print and online advertising through mulitple channels Diamond, Otaku USA,

CrunchyRoll, AnimeNewsNetwork, Neo Magazine and Google.

Promotional materials to be distributed starting Summer 2015.

Priority title at NYCC with limited edition merchandise at the event.

Dedicated merchandise site. Already online.

Publicity: Since the summer of 2014 Ninja Slayer has been a key part of Studio

Gainax/Trigger’s global marketing campaign. The company flew to Los Angeles to Anime Expo and San Diego Comic Con to launch the brand in the US before revealing it in Japan and they

have been active with English trailers and merchandise to promote the property since.

Vertical will taking the brand to more events across North America as exclusive print rights holders. We will begin to release merchandise for the brand starting in Summer 2015 to coincide with the animated TV series that launches around June 2015.

Studio Trigger will be making their annual appearance at Anime Expo and Fanime (in San Jose,

CA) starting June 2015.

Feature Website: otakumode.com/sp/ninjaslayer

Author Website: http://ninjaslayer.jp/

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Author Social Media: twitter.com/njsly

Images


May 02, 2015

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Vertical Inc.



May 02, 2015

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Vertical Inc.

My Neighbor Seki, 5

Book Cover

COMICS & GRAPHIC


TieIn

9781941220894

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

180 pages

B/W COMIC ART

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics



OTHER FORMATS

9781941220917

SUPPLY DETAIL


Inc.

Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24

Seki


By (author): Takuma Morishige




Club.



Story Locale: Japan

Series Overview: My Neighbor Seki is a 6 volume manga comedy that is set in high school; comedic hijinks that revolve around pair of teens who are constantly finding new and inventive ways to kill time in class.





REVIEWS



Promotion Plans




Alliance.








May 02, 2015


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Vertical Inc.

Tokyo ESP, volume 2

Book Cover

COMICS & GRAPHIC


TieIn

9781941220610

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

380 pages

B/W COMIC ART

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics



SUPPLY DETAIL


Inc.

Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24

Tokyo ESP

Tokyo ESP, volume 2

By (author): Hajime Segawa


High intensity action and comedy revolving around teens with psychic abilities set in modern day Tokyo, Tokyo ESP is part XMen and part Fairy Tale with vibrant character designs that jump at readers.

High school girl Rinka Urushiba wakes up to find out she has attained extrasensory powers,

and eventually comes to use them against other espers who have begun wage havoc on Tokyo.



Hajime Segawa is a comic artist and character designer based out of Tokyo, Japan. He made is cartooning debut in the March 2005 issue of Kadokawa Publishing’s Monthly Shonen ACE magazine with the shortstory Phantom Kingdom (a comic adaptation of the PlayStation video game Makai Kingdom: Chronicles Of The Sacred Tome). Response was positive, resulting in a contract to do three more shorts over the next year. By the end of the year, Segawa was well onto developing his first feature length series GAREI; which would quickly catapult him into stardom. GAREI would continue for more than five years, spinning off a couple sidestories and eventually in 2008 a twelve episode animated TV series.

Tokyo ESP is his second feature length series. Another hit in Japan, it was also recently adapted into a two season animated TV series. The first season debuted July 2014, with the second season set for summer 2015.

Segawa’s works tend to revolve around the supernatural or psychic abilities but are almost always set in modern day Tokyo with teenage leads.



REVIEWS

“Tokyo ESP looks is an allout superpoweredaction fest.” Anime News Network

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Ads for Tokyo ESP to be placed in Diamond Previews.

Preview chapter to be printed in Otaku USA magazine and in NEO Magazine (UK).

Publicity: Tokyo ESP will be Vertical’s primary focus at New York ComicCon 2015 and

AnimeWeekend Atlanta, where the title will be on prominent display.

Crosspromotion with Funimation Studios to be coordinated also. Funimation will be selling DVD sets of the first season in 2015. Video banner links hosted at Vertical and Funimation will direct fans to both versions.

The Tokyo ESP animation is currently streaming on Hulu.

Feature Website: http://bit.ly/1Fk4PpJ

May 02, 2015


pg 22

Vertical Inc.

Witchcraft Works, Volume 8

Book Cover

Witchcraft Works

Witchcraft Works, Volume 8

By (author): Ryu Mizunagi COMICS & GRAPHIC

NOVELS / Manga / Fantasy

9781941220962

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

192 pages

B/W COMIC ART COLOR

PLATES

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics


SUPPLY DETAIL


Inc.

Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24


Romance comedy manga with supernatural fantasy elements tailor made for young adult manga readers.

Witchcraft Works is a romance comedy set in a modern day world where magic and

supernational powers shape the lives of the kids in this high school.

Story Locale: Japan

Series Overview: High schooler Honoka Takamiya finds himself in the middle of a battle between witches…for his body in this 7 volume series.


Very little is publicly known about Ryu Mizunagi but the author’s birthday is March 23rd.

Originally from Aichi, Mizunagi won the Kodansha Four Seasons Manga Award in 2004 with the pilot for Witchcraft Works. Mizunagi was able to continue the project through Kodansha Japan in

2006.

Author Residence: Aichi, Japan

Author Hometown: Aichi, Japan

REVIEWS

“Witchcraft Works is a lot of fun. It’s filled with beautiful art and quirky humor—not to mention that the gender role inversion in mind is never not entertaining. If you like magical school stories like Harry Potter and don’t mind that very little will be explained beyond the surface layer of the plot, Witchcraft Works is very much worth a watch.” Kotaku

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Print advertising and previews in Otaku USA and Locus magazines.

Online promotion with Right Stuf International.

Web banner ads on AnimeNewsNetwork.com

Publicity: Witchcraft Works animated TV has been distributed in English via the Hulu and

Crunchyroll.

Vertical will be promoting Witchcraft Works at AnimeNext (Newark NJ), Otakon (Baltimore MD) and AnimeExpo LA this summer.

Witchcraft Works will be one of Vertical’s spotlight titles at New York Comic Con 2014 where it received great fanfare.

Feature Website: http://www.witchcwanime.jp/

Author Website: http://blog.livedoor.jp/wcworx/index.html

May 02, 2015


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Book Cover

COMICS & GRAPHIC


TieIn

9781941220948

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

200 pages

B/W COMIC ART COLOR

PLATES

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics



SUPPLY DETAIL


Inc.

Availability:


Carton Quantity: 24

Ninja Slayer

Ninja Slayer, Part 2

Last Girl Standing

Created by: Bradley Bond

Created by: Phillip N. Morzez

Illustrated by: Yuuki Yogo

Retold by: Yoshiaki Tabata


Ninja Slayer is the latest project from the team behind megahits such as Neon Genesis

Evangelion, Gurren Lagaan and the new Cartoon Network hit Kill la Kill. A ninja exploitation project, this manga release is based directly off the original web novels by

Bradley Bond and is one part of a broad mediamix campaign that includes an animated

TV series, novels and a toy line.

A futuristic scifi action tale of ninja on ninja warfare in the hardknocks Tokyo suburb of Neo

Saitama. Rogue ninja, Ninja Slayer, fights criminals and other ninjas to maintain order in this lawless region of Japan.

Story Locale: Japan


Born 1968 and currently residing in New York. In the 90s, he became friends with Morzez via the

Internet and they started collaborating. Wellversed in linguistics, history and traditional culture, he is known as the Joseph Campbell of ninja and Nordic mythology as he was the first to draw parallels between the two.

Author Residence: New York, NY

Author Hometown: Hartford, Conn.

Born 1969. Residing in the suburbs of Los Angeles. He coauthored the novel with Bond to blow the whistle on the menace of ninja. With a PhD in computer engineering, he brings authenticity

to the cyberpunk references in the novel. Loves apple pie.

Reader Residence: Los Angeles, CA

Reader Hometown: Long Beach, CA

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Print and online advertising through mulitple channels Diamond, Otaku USA,

CrunchyRoll, AnimeNewsNetwork, Neo Magazine and Google.

Promotional materials to be distributed starting Summer 2015.

Priority title at NYCC with limited edition merchandise at the event.

Dedicated merchandise site. Already online.

Publicity: Since the summer of 2014 Ninja Slayer has been a key part of Studio

Gainax/Trigger’s global marketing campaign. The company flew to Los Angeles to Anime Expo and San Diego Comic Con to launch the brand in the US before revealing it in Japan and they

have been active with English trailers and merchandise to promote the property since.

Vertical will taking the brand to more events across North America as exclusive print rights holders. We will begin to release merchandise for the brand starting in Summer 2015 to coincide with the animated TV series that launches around June 2015.

Studio Trigger will be making their annual appearance at Anime Expo and Fanime (in San Jose,

CA) starting June 2015.

Feature Website: otakumode.com/sp/ninjaslayer

Author Website: http://ninjaslayer.jp/

May 02, 2015


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Author Social Media: twitter.com/njsly

May 02, 2015


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A Girl on the Shore

Book Cover

A Girl on the Shore

By (author): Inio Asano

COMICS & GRAPHIC

NOVELS / Manga /

Romance

9781941220856

English

General Trade

444 pages

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics

Paperback, Trade

B/W COMIC ART



The latest book from one of the comics world’s most respected artists. Directly inspired by Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore, Inio Asano spins a tight 18andup yarn about teen agnst, rural boredom, and onesided romance set in a modernday Japanese seaside village, where everyone knows about everyone else’s personal lives…Or so they thought.

Koume Sato and Kosuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy Japanese seaside town.

After getting used and dumped by her crush, the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a relationship with Kosuke, without any emotions involved. However, they both soon discover that sex with no strings attached often leads to unexpected complications, not just for themselves but also the people around them.

Story Locale: Rural Japan

SUPPLY DETAIL

Distributor: Penguin Random

House

Availability: Not yet available


Carton Quantity: 24


Inio Asano (born 1980) was considered by many to be one of the biggest new names in manga of the ’00’s. Debuting in 1998 Asano was immediately thrust into the manga spotlight by earning praise from luminaries such as Naoki Yamamoto and Shin Takahashi. His acsent to stardom was very quick, and regretfully, the young man went into a bit of a slump soon after. But after four years of struggle and soulsearching as an assistant to some of Japan’s most artisticly respective comickers, Asano came back to become the voice of the modern Japanese

adolescent.

His breaktrough work SOLANIN captivated the globe earning him recognition in Japan and an

Eisner Award nomination in North America. SOLANIN was later adapted into a cultish motion

picture further cementing Asano’s place amongst outsiders globally.

Since 2002 Asano has penned 10 graphic novel series, dozens of short stories, and is now making inroads as one of Japan’s more popular graphic designers. In 2014 his most recent

English language release Nishigahara Holograph was selected as one of the best graphic novels of the year by Publishers Weekly, Comics Alliance, Comics Resources, and Good OK

Bad.


Author Hometown: Ibaraki, Japan

REVIEWS

“Inio Asano has become one of the voices of his generation. His work—stories of youth that would be too alien or embarrassing for fullfledged adults—has found a home in the hearts of disaffected teens and twentysomethings.” The Daily Yomiuri

Promotion Plans

Marketing: Print advertising in Otaku USA magazine and NEO Magazine (UK)

Online ads on Facebook and at AnimeNews Network.

Google ads.

Publicity: Future YALSA nomination. All of Asano’s previous titles have been nominated and

finalists for YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Promotion in library events.

Invitation to Toronto Comics Art Festival May 2016.

Plans to go to AnimeCentral (America’s second largest anime/manga convention) in May 2016

Chicago, Illinois.

Promotional materials postcards and posters to be distributed starting Fall 2015.

Author Social Media: twitter.com/asano_inio

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My Neighbor Seki, 6

Book Cover

Seki


By (author): Takuma Morishige COMICS & GRAPHIC


TieIn

9781942993094

English

Paperback, Trade

General Trade

176 pages

BW COMIC ART

Vertical Inc.

Vertical Comics






Club.



Story Locale: Japan

Series Overview: My Neighbor Seki is a 6 volume manga comedy that is set in high school; comedic hijinks that revolve around pair of teens who are constantly finding new and inventive ways to kill time in class. OTHER FORMATS

9781941220924

SUPPLY DETAIL

Distributor: Penguin Random

House

Availability: Not yet available


Carton Quantity: 0





REVIEWS



Promotion Plans




Alliance.








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Table of Contents - Library Services Centre

Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part 1

Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part

1

pg 2

Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City, Part 1

pg 3

Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 11

Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 11

pg 4

Knights of Sidonia, Volume 14

Knights of Sidonia, Volume 14

pg 5

Eternal Zero

Eternal Zero

pg 6

Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 8

Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 8

pg 7

Aranzi Aronzo - Cuter Stuff

Aranzi Aronzo ­ Cuter Stuff

pg 8

KizuMonogatari

KizuMonogatari

pg 9

Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 12

Mobile Suit Gundam: The ORIGIN, Volume 12

pg 10

Seraph of the End, 1

Seraph of the End, 1

pg 11

The Shield of Straw

The Shield of Straw

pg 12

My Neighbor Seki, 4

My Neighbor Seki, 4

pg 13

Tokyo ESP, volume 1

Tokyo ESP, volume 1

pg 14

Tokyo ESP, volume 1

pg 15

Tokyo ESP, volume 1

pg 16

Witchcraft Works, Volume 7

Witchcraft Works, Volume 7

pg 17

Ninja Slayer, Part 1

Ninja Slayer, Part 1

pg 18

Ninja Slayer, Part 1

pg 19

Ninja Slayer, Part 1

pg 20

My Neighbor Seki, 5

My Neighbor Seki, 5

pg 21

Tokyo ESP, volume 2

Tokyo ESP, volume 2

pg 22

Witchcraft Works, Volume 8

Witchcraft Works, Volume 8

pg 23

Ninja Slayer, Part 2

Ninja Slayer, Part 2

pg 24

Ninja Slayer, Part 2

pg 25

A Girl on the Shore

A Girl on the Shore

pg 26

A Girl on the Shore

pg 27

My Neighbor Seki, 6

My Neighbor Seki, 6

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