Vertical (publisher)


Vertical, Inc. 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
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  • 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
  • KIZUMONOGATARI: Wound Tale
  • 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
  • Ajin: Demi-Human
  • Andromeda Stories
  • Ayako
  • Apollo's Song
  • Black Jack
  • Blame!
  • The Book of Human Insects
  • Buddha
  • Cardfight!! Vanguard
  • Chi's Sweet Home
  • Devil's Line
  • Dissolving Classroom
  • 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
  • The Gods Lie
  • 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
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz - Glory of the Losers
  • Moteki
  • Mysterious Girlfriend X
  • MW
  • My Neighbor Seki
  • Ninja Slayer
  • Nichijou
  • No Longer Human
  • Ode to Kirihito
  • Paradise Kiss
  • Peepo Choo
  • Pink
  • 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
  • Velveteen & Mandala
  • What Did You Eat Yesterday?
  • Witchcraft Works
  • Wolfsmund