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Vertical translates the best contemporary Japanese books. We select
our popular novels, graphic novels, and quality nonfiction from
a rich, variegated stock: Japan's huge and vibrant book market.
In fields like animation and video games, Japanese entertainment
thrills people worldwide. The Japanese book world's offerings
are equally entertaining. Until now, however, most Japanese books
translated into English have been either literary classics or
introductions to traditional culture meant for a limited circle
of Japanophiles. Vertical publishes exciting titles that require
no prior knowledge of Japanese culture and are not intended primarily
to familiarize readers with it; we choose good reads with universal
themes.
Read different. Read Vertical.
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"Vertical represents what every designer wants. They’re
fearless, they’re smart, they want to be challenged, they
want to challenge the marketplace."
--Chip Kidd, Print magazine
"Five years ago, an energetic,
chain-smoking Japanese entrepreneur named Hiroki Sakai arrived
in New York with a new and bold (and some said crazy) idea: to
market Japanese popular fiction in North America. Sakai was not
what one would call a literary man, nor did he speak much English.
Yet he knew the book-selling business in Japan and was confident
that Japanese literature could be commercially successful abroad...
A
good story, after all, was a good story anywhere..."
--The Globe and Mail
"Thank goodness
for Vertical, Inc. with its translated texts for the
everyman…While Japanese pop culture has become ubiquitous
in the Western entertainment industry, the Japanese book market
in translation has been dominated for the most part by so-called
literary classics. No more. Vertical Inc. is about to change all
that."
--AsianWeek
"Fans
of genre-oriented fiction have to check out the incredible new
selection by Vertical, Inc... they are making available
the best Japanese fiction for English readers."
--Las Vegas Weekly
"Vertical approaches the
(manga) market from a very different perspective. They
are an outside player to the usual machinations of the industry,
and have breathed into it a new life." --Anime
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