Coamix
Coamix Co., Ltd. is a Japanese manga and anime production company partnered with Tokuma Shoten and previously by Shinchosha. Its headquarters are in the Kichijoji Zizo Building in Kichijōji, Musashino, Tokyo.
The company was founded on June 4, 2000, by former Weekly Shōnen Jump editor-in-chief Nobuhiko Horie, along with manga artists Tsukasa Hojo, Tetsuo Hara, and Ryuji Tsugihara, and voice actor Akira Kamiya, among others. The company published the manga anthology Weekly Comic Bunch, as well as the collected editions of their titles under the Bunch Comics imprint, from 2001 to 2010. In 2010, Monthly Comic Zenon was established to replace Bunch, and is currently under Coamix's responsibility.
Coamix was the parent company of the now-defunct North American manga publisher Gutsoon! Entertainment, which published Raijin Comics. A Japanese language edition of Raijin Comics was published by Coamix in Japan.
In addition to comic production, Coamix and related companies are currently engaged in multiple of related business, such as cafe and dining at their headquarters in Kichijoji. There is also a facility in historical city of Kyoto in western Japan, which hosts 信長茶寮, a theme based restaurant, devoted to the historical samurai hero Oda Nobunaga.
Since 2012, Coamix is organising "SILENT MANGA AUDITION", an open competition for Japanese style comics, without spoken dialogues. The organiser claims that utilising graphics only for story telling, is a great test and training for manga creative skills.
The winners of the event has made commercial debut on Japanese comic magazines, with some gaining future prospect for series production. The event is currently in its 5th round, as of January 2016.
